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Academic Programs
Visual + Material Culture Research Seminar Series
An interdisciplinary seminar series on visual and material culture. Free and open to all. Select Thursdays. See full details
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Campus Canines at MOA
Tuesday March 5 | 1:30 – 3 pm
MOA Unmasked: Behind-the-Scenes Tours
Select Thursdays (7 pm) + select Fridays (4:30 pm)
MOA Unmasked: Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts Movement
Thursday, February 15 at 7 pm + Friday, February 16 at 4:30 pm
All Past EventsPrivate Tours
Private guided tours can be requested for groups of up to 10 people. Tours must be pre-booked and last 60 minutes. Tours are led by a MOA Curator or a trained staff member and are dependent on staff availability.
During Public Hours: $300 + taxes
Outside Public Hours: $500 + taxes
In addition to the tour cost, museum admission group rates apply to each person in the tour group.
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Play with Clay: Drop-In Ceramics Workshop with Debra Sloan
Saturday February 22, 2020 | 12 – 3 pm
Join ceramic artist, and past MOA artist-in-residence, Debra Sloan for an all-ages drop-in workshop that explores the narrative possibilities of clay.
At 12 pm, Debra Sloan will be begin the afternoon with a brief tour at of the Koerner European Ceramics Gallery, where Sloan’s work is featured as part of MOA’s new feature exhibition, Playing with Fire: Ceramics of the Extraordinary.
Visitors are then invited to drop into MOA’s Learning Lab for an afternoon of all-ages fun. Discover and experiment with a variety of clay techniques, including press molding, carving, and painting. Then, take matters into your own hands by applying these techniques onto a ceramic tile that reflects your own story. Participants will then contribute their completed tile to a clay tiled stove, similar to the one exhibited in the Koerner Gallery, as they help build a new collective story.
Debra Sloan is a Vancouver-based artist who is alumni of both the Vancouver School of Art and the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has exhibited with and served on a variety of boards throughout British Columbia, and her work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. In 2015, she was honoured with the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Craft and Design. Working mainly as a figurative artist, Sloan was the first sculptor to have ventured in the sculptor/commentary direction at the Leach Pottery in its 95-year history.