Online Exhibitions
Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers / Soñadores + creadores del cambio
This bilingual English and Spanish online platform that amplifies the scope of MOA’s 2022 exhibition Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers / Soñadores + creadores del cambio. It offers artists’ biographies, statements, and favourite music, films and foods. This digital catalogue includes essays on Xicanx music, literature, film, cuisine and educational resources and teaching guides.
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Shadows, Strings + Other Things: The Enchating Theatre of Puppets
Explore the rich histories and cultures of puppetry around the world. The website—developed in conjunction with the 2019 MOA exhibition Shadows, Strings and Other Things: The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets—offers materials to encourage students to learn through hands-on exploration and creative play. Learn about contemporary puppet makers and performers and inspire students to share their own stories.
Shake Up: Preserving What We Value
In conjunction with major seismic upgrades to MOA’s Great Hall, the exhibition Shake Up: Preserving What We Value explores the convergence of earthquake science and technology with the rich Indigenous knowledge and oral history of the living cultures represented in MOA’s Northwest Coast collection. This website shows showcases the oral and visual histories, multimedia installations, and contemporary First Nations art and cultural objects shown in the exhibition.
Voices of the Canoe
Learn about the canoe traditions of the Fijian, Squamish, and Haida people and understand the historical and ongoing importance of canoe culture for these Indigenous peoples. The site features interviews from Indigenous artists, canoe makers and others to encourage students to consider multiple points of view, and to question what is historically significant and what evidence is used to determine historical significance. It also hosts a range of evidence – photographs, maps, interviews, historical texts and short films. Developed in conjunction with The History Education Network/Histoire et Education en Reseau.
One Mind, One Heart
Learn more about the fierce opposition by the Heiltsuk Nation to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and oil-tanker traffic in their ancestral waters. The site features films, photos of Heiltsuk territory, and community protests during the Project Review Panel’s visit to Bella Bella. The installation (on display in Multiversity Galleries, Exhibit Case 23) shows the ancestral guardian of the undersea world, ’Yágis, swallowing an oil tanker trespassing in Heiltsuk waters. ’Yágis, the mask was created by Heiltsuk artist ’Nusí to invoke ancient Heiltsuk teachings and the law of Káxláya Gvi’ílás in order to protect their land and seas for the future.
Weavers at Musqueam
Weavers at Musqueam features the stories of weavers in the First Nations community of Musqueam in Vancouver. These artists speak about the process of learning to weave and its ongoing importance in their daily and cultural lives. These personal narratives are accompanied by image galleries showing examples of the artists’ work. Funded by Canada’s Digital Collections Initiative, Industry Canada.
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Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures
Instead of a paper catalogue, MOA produced a website accompany the exhibition Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures. Here you’ll find video interviews with the 12 participating artists, artworks exclusive to the zine, provocative reviews of the exhibition, and a blog devoted to the idea of borders.