[BCMA] Media Release: The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford Receives Provincial Award of Merit

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For Immediate Release

December 15, 2011

The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford Receives Provincial Award of Merit

Abbotsford, BC...Friday, December 9, The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford was presented the 2011 Award of Merit from the British Columbia Museums Association. The award was given to The Reach for the 2010 exhibition, Beadwork - Radical Practices. This important award recognizes The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford and its curatorial program. The Award of Merit is given to individuals, institutions or agencies for outstanding, innovative or creative achievement in the museum, art gallery, archives or heritage field in British Columbia.

The Reach Curator, Scott Marsden received the award on behalf of The Reach at the British Columbia Museum Association 2011 Conference held at the Museum of Vancouver. Marsden describes Beadwork-Radical Practices as, "an international exhibition that celebrated the promotion of and exchange between cultures through artistic events and was The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford's contribution to the cultural festivities of the 2010 Olympics and the Para-Olympics."

Beadwork - Radical Practices profiled historical and contemporary work from the Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa as well as historical work from the MacBride Museum of Yukon History and contemporary work from the Yukon Territorial Government's Permanent Art Collection both located in Whitehorse, Yukon.  The exhibition contrasted the intricate patterns, techniques and contexts of Yukon First Nations beadwork with geometric/abstract Ndebele designs and was a means of exploring cultural similarities and differences in an attempt to understand the complex stories and histories that are contained within each of the beading practices.

For more information, please contact Scott Marsden at 604-864-8087, ext. 122.
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Kat Wahamaa
Cultural Programs Manager
t 604 864 8087
f 604 864 8048

The Reach
Gallery Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way
Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3
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