[BCMA] MOA Receives $2.6 Million from Audain Foundation

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Audain Foundation's $2.5 Million Grant Supports UBC Museum of Anthropology
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[VANCOUVER] The Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts has granted the UBC
Museum of Anthropology (MOA) $2.5 million in support of its current major
capital renewal project, A Partnership of Peoples. This gift, together with
contributions from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, British Columbia
Knowledge Development Fund, Department of Canadian Heritage Cultural Spaces
Program, and The Koerner Foundation, Toronto, is a significant step towards
completing the project’s $55.5 million funding target. This major renovation
helps transform MOA into one of the most advanced anthropological research
facilities in the world.

Recognition of the Audain Foundation gift includes renaming the major
temporary exhibit gallery as The Audain Gallery. “We are so fortunate to
have the support of the Audain Foundation,” says Nancy Gallini, Dean of
UBC’s Faculty of Arts.  “Their commitment to the Arts Faculty at UBC and to
MOA is truly cherished.” 

At 5,800 sq. ft., the Audain Gallery will enable MOA to host and attract
major international shows that to date have not been able to travel to
Vancouver due to a lack of appropriate space. It will also allow MOA to
continue to develop and produce its own major exhibits, but on a much larger
scale. The Audain Gallery will open with its inaugural exhibit, Border
Zones: New Art Across Culture in January 2010.

“The Foundation recognizes the importance of the Museum of Anthropology to
all visual art fans in British Columbia as well as the significant role it
plays in the cultural representation of the First Nations people of the
Pacific Northwest,” says Michael Audain, founder and chair of the
Foundation. “The new gallery and spaces will further enhance and promote
MOA’s unique position.”

“The promotion of First Nations and other indigenous collections at MOA
reinforces the importance of keeping our cultural history alive,” says Prof.
Stephen Toope, UBC President. “The generosity of Michael Audain and his
foundation is greatly valued by the entire UBC community.”

A 44,000 sq. ft. new wing – the Centre for Cultural Research – has been
built to increase the amount of space available in the existing building to
showcase public exhibitions. The official ceremony celebrating the
completion of the renewal project, A Partnership of Peoples will take place
on January 23, 2010. 

The Audain Gallery is a vital component of the overall initiative to expand
the Museum’s physical spaces to increase public accessibility to its
collections. Overall, more than 55,000 square feet of the original building
is being renovated along with an upgrade to the building envelope and
environmental systems. 

“We are going through very big and exciting changes here at MOA, and I am
extremely pleased by the Audain Foundation’s support,” states MOA Director,
Anthony Shelton. “I am most grateful for their confidence in us as one of
British Columbia’s premier institutions in the visual arts.”

The Audain Foundation has supported visual arts and cultural initiatives in
British Columbia since 1997. A UBC alumnus and chair of B.C.’s Polygon Homes
Ltd., Michael Audain has had a longstanding relationship with MOA and UBC.
Including this contribution, he has given $5 million to UBC initiatives.
Most recently, he gave $2 million in support of two new endowments for the
UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory’s Masters in Critical
and Curatorial Studies (CCST) Program. 

With the Museum, the Audain Foundation has participated in several external
First Nations projects and programs over the years and, in 2007, funded the
exhibition catalogue for “The Abstract Edge,” a major exhibition of the work
of Haida artist Robert Davidson. 

Audain is a recipient of the Order of British Columbia, Chair of the
National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation and the
Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts.


 	
 	  	  	 
 

 	
 	  	  	
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