Monthly Archives: September 2010

WAM! 2010 Award Winners

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Congratulations to all the WAM! award and ribbon winners!

Here’s a list of all the winners:

2D-  Paper/Canvas:


Award  Of  Excellence – Kalsang  Dawa

Juror’s Choice – Alano  Edzerza

Special  Recognition – David  Teata

Basketry/  Textile/  Beadwork:

Award  Of  Excellence – Lisa  Hageman  Yahgulanaas

Juror’s Choice –  Ruth  Pimentel

Special  Recognition – Erasto  (Tito)  Mendoza  Ruiz,

3D-Wood, Stone:

Award Of Excellence – Clive Fugill

Juror’s Choice - TIE: Keith Rice-Jones, Grant Pauls

Special Recognition – Passmore Mupindiko

Ceramics:

Award Of Excellence – Celia Rice-Jones

Juror’s Choice – NONE Special Recognition- Clay Jung-Hong Kim

“Outside the Box” – Mixed Media:

Award Of Excellence – Fiona Jones

Juror’s Choice – Corrine Hunt

Special Recognition – TIE: Ed Noisecat, Pat Bruderer

Jewellery- Silver, Gold, Mixed Media:

Award Of Excellence – Rangi Kipa

Juror’s Choice – Matthew McIntyre Wilson

Special Recognition – Steven Gwaliasi

Youth Category:

Award Of Excellence – Sydni Head J

Juror’s Choice – NONE

Special Recognition – NONE

Robson Reading Series: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

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The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and MOA’s Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library & Archives are co-presenting Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his book RED: A Haida Manga (Douglas & McIntyre, 2009) for the next Robson Reading Series event. The reading will take place on the Point Grey UBC campus at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Room 301) on Thursday, September 30th, 1:00-2:00 p.m. We hope you can join us for what promises to be an engaging presentation. Please RSVP to ensure a seat: 604-827-4366 or ikblc-events@interchange.ubc.ca. If you aren’t able to attend in person, the talk is scheduled to be presented via live webcast at: http://tiny.cc/ikblc2010

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Call for NWC metal work!

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The Museum of Anthropology is in the process of developing an exhibit on the engraved metal work of Haida artist Charles Edenshaw and the basketry work of his wife Isabella. “Signed without Signature: Works by Charles & Isabella Edenshaw” will be shown at MOA from November 25, 2010 to October 2, 2011.
 
Unlike the artists of today, who engrave bracelets flat by affixing metal to wax on an engravers block, carve the desired forms, and then shape the bracelet to fit the wrist, Edenshaw and his Haida peers in the late 19th century shaped the bracelet first, and then held it their hands around a wooden form while they engraved it. By this process, the complete engraved image was never seen flat.
 
To help in the viewing and appreciation of the engraved work of these 19th century artists, MOA curator Bill McLennan has developed a scanning technique that presents the bracelet, which was originally engraved in the round, as a flat digital image. This format enables comparison and helps to determine individual style and chronology of production. It also allows us to create an inventory of work dispersed through museums, galleries, and private collections around the world, which can then be made accessible to researchers, community members, and the general public.
 
To build this inventory, we are hoping to hear from individuals who may have 19th century Northwest Coast engraved metal work, and would like to participate in this unique project by having their objects identified, and their object(s) photographed as part of the project.
 
It would be fantastic if you could help us reach potential participants by having Rick Cluff interview Bill McLennan, MOA Curator Pacific Northwest, who developed this innovative technique, and is also curating the upcoming exhibition. He is

available anytime through the summer. For your information the images shown here are of three bracelets by Charles Edenshaw, originally carved in the round, which have been scanned so that the engraved forms may be viewed flat.


 
If you have information, please contact Bill McLennan at 604.822.5950 or bill.mclennan@ubc.ca.
 
We are very excited to be showing a number of rare and only recently-identified works by Charles and Isabella Edenshaw in “Signed without Signature,” and would love to connect with people that would enjoy sharing in the exhibit’s development and in creating valuable knowledge for generations to come. Many of Edenshaw’s bracelets have found their way into private collections here in the Lower Mainland, and in our experience, people are always excited to share their Edenshaw treasures and their stories of how they came to own them; they just need to know the opportunity is there.

MOA installs reflecting pool – after 34 years, Arthur Erickson’s dream for the Museum becomes reality

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We are thrilled to announce that the Yosef Wosk Reflecting Pool has now been created at the Museum of Anthropology.

MOA’s architect, the late Arthur C. Erickson, and landscape architect, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, originally intended the pool to be opened as part of the new Museum of Anthropology in 1976. Now, nearly thirty-five years later, their original vision for MOA has been fulfilled. Thanks to the generosity of Yosef Wosk, OBC, and the efforts of many other individuals and organizations, the pool was successfully filled last Thursday, September 9, and is now an integral part of the Museum grounds – as it was always intended to be. According to Cornelia, even the shape and depth of the pool are the same as she specified on her original 1975 drawings for the site, although slightly curtailed at the northeast and southwest ends to honour commitments made during approval of the 2004 North Campus Plan by the GVRD.

Both Arthur Erickson and Cornelia Oberlander have received honours for their work on the Museum of Anthropology, and were awarded the Order of Canada for their iconic contributions to national and international architecture and landscape design. Their vision for MOA was inspired by traditional 19th century northern Northwest Coast First Nations big houses and their settings up and down the coast of British Columbia.

The pool is intended to be seen from the Museum’s Great Hall as the representation of a coastal inlet beyond which lie the mountains and sea. The shell beach, numerous free-standing totem poles, and two Haida Houses on the site

enhance and extend the visitor’s view through MOA’s 15-metre north-facing glass walls, dissolving the barriers between outside and inside, and creating a powerful, unique connection between the building, the collections, the visitor, and the landscape.

According to Yosef Wosk, “Arthur and Cornelia’s creativity resulted in an icon of transformation, a venue for respectful learning, and a place of inspired contemplation. I am thrilled to have been able to play a part in the completion of their original vision for the Museum, and encourage everyone to come and share in its beauty.”

Says Museum Director Dr. Anthony A. Shelton, “The instatement of the reflecting pool would not have been possible without the generous financial support of Dr. Yosef Wosk, OBC. We are very grateful for his commitment to the Museum as both a donor and advisor.”

We invite you to come and see this extraordinary addition to the Museum. And please join us on Saturday, September 18 and Sunday, September 19 from 10 am to 5 pm, for MOA’s first annual World Art Market – WAM! Bring your family and friends for this two-day festival of world art, music, performance, and cuisine! For details, visit www.moa.ubc.ca/world-art-market. See you there!

MOA CAT online!

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Did you see something fascinating at MOA and would like to know more about it? Are you trying to gather the last bit of information for a paper that is due tomorrow? Have you forgotten something about our collections and would like to show your friends and family what you saw while you were at MOA? Or are you just bored?

Well, fear not! The MOA CAT has just been launched online!

There are two ways to browse through our collections: the Explore Our Collections tab and the Explore the Globe tab. Explore the Globe connects the user to Google Earth and allows you to search through the collections from

specific geographic areas. Explore Our Collections allows the user to search for an item or collection using keyword searches, by person, place, time, subjects, and categories.

Impress everyone you know! Also, please provide us with feedback as the MOA staff are often updating the CAT.