Events at: Museum of Anthropology

Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures

Exhibition marking the launch of the ‘new’ Museum of Anthropology – through September 12, 2010 January 23, 2010 – September 12, 2010 Curated by Karen Duffek, MOA Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts. Presented with Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures is an exhibition of international contemporary art that will inaugurate MOA’s […]

Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame: Day 3

Inaugural Symposium of the Global Encounters Initiative How do societies change in response to contact with other cultures? And what roles do objects play in mediating these connections over time and place? This two-and-a-half-day symposium brings together anthropologists, geographers, historians, Indigenous artists and activists, and literary scholars whose research focuses on cross-cultural encounters and material exchange […]

Textile Diagrams

Visual and Material Culture Research Seminar Series Winter Term 2. 3:30pm. T’ai Smith, Assistant Professor, Art History, Visual Art & Theory, UBC This presentation will consider how manufacturers in Europe and America codified textile and clothing production through the use of diagrams: lace and embroidery patterns (first developed in the sixteenth century), draft notation systems […]

Beau Dick, Celebration of Life

Beau Dick / Walas Gwayum 1955–2017 Celebration of Life Sunday, April 30, 2017 2-4 pm Museum of Anthropology 6393 NW Marine Drive, UBC   Please join us at a Celebration of Life for Beau Dick on Sunday, April 30, 2017. The formal and public component of the afternoon will take place from 2 to 4 […]