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• December 3, 1997 - August 31, 1998
• Drawing on one of the finest private collections of Early Chinese art, Recalling the Past spans 4,500 years of Chinese art from the Neolithic through the Han, Tang and Song dynasties. The exhibit features diverse objects in jade, bronze, ceramic, gold and silver, and other materials - all remarkable for the exceptional quality of their manufacture and design. The objects highlight aspects of ancient Chinese civilization - notions of ritual, changing decorative motifs, the formation of national unity during the Han, the importance of the Tang in later time, and the justified fame both within China and around the world of Chinese ceramics.

• January 31 - March 31, 1996
• An exhibit of drawings in graphite, pencil crayon, crayon, and ink by Hongeeyesa, an Assiniboine artist who lived in what is now southern Saskatchewan between 1860 and 1927. Called “ledger drawings” because they were sometimes done on lined accountant’s paper provided by government Indian agents, these drawings provide invaluable information about Native life in the mid to late 1800s. This national touring exhibition was organized by Glenbow and is the result of a special collaboration between Glenbow’s guest curator Valerie Robertson, co-writer Charlotte Nahbixie, John Haywahe (grandson of the artist), and the people of Carry The Kettle First Nations.

• January 8 - February 11, 1980 (Gallery 9)

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• October 8 - December 31, 1998
• This travelling exhibit examines the life between the Wars in a Polish shtetl (market town). Thirty-nine framed photographs with text and maps provide insight into a period of extraordinary cultural ferment and change in the village of Lubomi prior to 1942, when nearly all the Jews in the town were killed during the Holocaust. The exhibit is underwritten and circulated by the Aaron Ziegelman Foundation of New York, and curated by Fred Wasserman, a leading social historian. The exhibition director is Jill Vexler, Ph.D.

• February 18 - May 24, 1992 (Gallery 9)
• Student exhibition: Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Philippine, Dutch, Salish, and Peruvian textiles are used to highlight how various peoples prolong the life of household goods and clothing. This exhibit continues MOA’s long-term commitment to “recycle” its entire world-wide collection of textiles from protective darkness to public view

• September 16 - October 16, 2005 (Gallery 10)
• As part of New Forms Festival 2005: Ecologies, MOA is hosting the RITUAL ECOLOGY exhibit, consisting of three multimedia installations. The first, Nabii, by Montreal artist Emilie Monnet, consists of four simultaneous DVD projections configured in the shape of a medicine wheel. The second, Lucinations, by Yukon artist Doug Smarch, uses the magic of Maya animation projected against a massive screen to interpret a Tlingit legend from the 1800s. The third, Greetings to the Technological World, is a video presentation by two artists from Montreal, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito, (Mohawk), and Jason E. Lewis (Cree). The exhibition is curated by Daina Warren.

• February 12, 1986

• June 22, 2004 – January 30, 2005 (Gallery 5)
• The Abstract Edge will bring together thirty works by Davidson with five 19th century Northwest Coast artefacts. Many of the contemporary works belong to Davidson and are being created specially for this exhibition; some will be borrowed from public and private collections. The contemporary works will include paintings on a variety of materials, sculptural works and sketchbooks. The historical objects will be drawn from the Museum and other collections.

• March 7 - May 25, 1986 (Gallery 5)
• Contemporary and traditional button blankets from the Northwest Coast. This project was made possible through the support of the Indian Arts and Crafts Society of British Columbia.