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Subjects term Scope note Archival description count authority records count
British Columbia Contemporary Ceramics
  • October 1991
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Bridges 18 0
Bracelets 19 0
Bowls 6 0
Bow and arrow 3 0
Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures

Use for: Boundary and Translation

  • Exhibition to inaugurate The Audain Gallery at MOA
  • January 23-September 12, 2010 (The Audain Gallery)
  • Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures was an exhibition of work by twelve artists engaged in a dialogue about cultural boundaries: Hayati Mokhtar, Dain Iskandar Said, John Wynne, Edward Poitras, T. Shanaathanan, Tania Mouraud, Marianne Nicolson, Gu Xiong, Prabakar Visvanath, Rosanna Raymond, Ron Yunkaporta, and Laura Wee Láy Láq. In place of a printed catalogue, an interactive webzine was created for local, national, and international writers, reviewers, artists, and students to develop and share ideas related to the exhibit. To view the webzine, visit https://www2.moa.ubc.ca/borderzones/. Border Zones was curated by Karen Duffek, MOA Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest.
 23 0
Bo'jou Neejee: Profiles of Canadian Indian Art
  • October 19 - December 31, 1976.
  • Exhibition consisted of artifacts from Indigenous communities of the Plains, Great Lakes, and Eastern Woodland Indians during the period 1750 to 1850. The exhibition was assembled by the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and consisted of objects from the collections of the Speyer family of Germany, and James Du Pres, the third Earl of Caledon of Tyrona, Ireland.
1 0
Bodies of water (6) 40 0
Bob Boyer: A Blanket Statement
  • January 19 - April 30, 1988 (Gallery 5)
  • A contemporary Metis artist, Bob Boyer draws upon Plains Indian design and images as well as mainstream art forms to create his individualistic style. His paintings on canvasses and flannel blankets, in oils and acrylics, make statements on Canadian Indian history and the native condition today. The third and final exhibition in this phase of the Indian Modern series, sponsored, in part, by the Canada Council.
 5 0
Boats (6) 75 0
Blue Jeans: Symbols in North American Culture
  • March - December, 1985
  • Student exhibition: An unusual exhibition in six parts, each presents a different theme related to blue jeans from history to fashion - even when it hurts.
 5 0
Blood from Stone: Making and Using Stone Tools in Prehistoric British Columbia
  • May 17, 1983 - April 29, 1984 (Archaeology Gallery)
  • Saskatchewan Museum of Natural History, Regina, SK Travelling February 1 – March 14, 1988
  • Deifenbaker Centre, Saskatoon, SK Travelling March 18 – May 23, 1988
 6 0
Blankets 34 0
Birds (1) 2 0
Bill Reid: Beyond the Essential Form
  • July 15 - October 5, 1986 (Masterpiece Gallery)
  • Selected fine works by Haida artist Bill Reid in gold, silver, ivory, slate and wood, drawn from private and public collections. This project was made possible through the support of the Canada Council.
 12 0
Bighorn Sheep

Use for: Mountain sheep

2 0
Beyond Revival
  • August 1989
 1 0
Beyond Fluttering Sleeves: An Exhibit of Japanese Kimono
  • 1997
  • Student exhibition
 1 0
Between Voices: Anspayaxw, A Sound Installation by John Wynne

Use for: Anspayaxw: An Installation For Voice, Image, and Sound

  • September 12 – October 26, 2013
  • CURATOR: Karen Duffek, Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts & Pacific Northwest Satellite Gallery
  • Anspayaxw: an installation for voice, image, and sound is an immersive sound-and-photographic installation for twelve channels of audio diffusion, created in 2010 by Canadian artist John Wynne in collaboration with photographer Denise Hawrysio, linguist Tyler Peterson, and members of the Indigenous Gitxsan community at Anspayaxw (Kispiox, British Columbia).
 3 0
Bentwood boxes

Use for: Bent-wood boxes, Bent wood boxes

102 0