[BCMA] MOA CLOSED JUNE 4; new Inuit exhibits open June 19

Tue May 31 08:46:34 PDT 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 31, 2011

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MOA NEWS JUNE 2011

NOTE: MOA WILL BE CLOSED FOR THE ENTIRE DAY ON SATURDAY, JUNE 4, DUE TO A NORTH CAMPUS POWER OUTTAGE. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
MOA and Shop Hours: daily 10 am to 5 pm; open late on Tues til 9 pm
Café MOA Hours: Open daily, 10 am to 4 pm; open late Tues til 7:30 pm
Museum Tours: weekdays 11 am, 1 pm & 3 pm, plus 6 pm on Tues; weekends 11:30 am & 2 pm
Koerner Ceramics Gallery Tours: Starting June 11: Saturdays 1 pm
Outdoor Tours: Starting June 18, weekdays 12:15 pm; weekends 12:45 pm, weather permitting
Note: all tours free with regular admission

TWO NEW EXHIBITS OPENING SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2011
Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration - James Houston, Un'ichi Hiratsuka and the Inuit Print Tradition AND Faces and Voices of the Inuit Art Market
Opening event: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 1-4 pm (MOA members & UBC staff, students & faculty free; all others regular admission). Event includes remarks by special guests and family film screenings (for film list, visit www.moa.ubc.ca/events<http://www.moa.ubc.ca/events>). Also on hand to celebrate the opening will be members of the Vancouver Draw Down team (1:30-3:30 pm). This talented group of artists will present a come-and-go workshop entitled (F)Light of Birds: Collaborative Pinprick Drawings. Participants of all ages will create a flock of birds drawn from points of light that will end up on the windows of Café MOA. Workshop free with regular admission. For more on the Vancouver Draw Down, visit www.vancouverdrawdown.com<http://www.vancouverdrawdown.com>
Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration - James Houston, Un'ichi Hiratsuka and the Inuit Print Tradition
features exquisite and extraordinarily rare prints from Japan and Cape Dorset, Nunavut, from the late 1950s and early 1960s. It also tells the little-known story of how, fifty years ago, the Canadian artist and 'discoverer' of Inuit art, James Houston, travelled to Japan to study printmaking with Un'ichi Hiratsuka, and returned to Canadian Arctic to share his new-found knowledge with Inuit printmakers Osuitok Ipeelee, Iyola Kingwatsiak, Lukta Qiatsuk, Kananginak Pootoogook and Eegyvudluk Pootoogook. Their studio produced its first annual collection and released it to the public in January 1960. Since then, art collectors around the world have been continually surprised by Cape Dorset's fresh, imaginative and original artworks on paper. Exhibition organized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the assistance of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset.
Faces and Voices of the Inuit Art Market
A sculpture is more than carved stone and a print is more than coloured paper. Many people play a role in the life of a work of art: from the artist, to the dealers, collectors, purchasers, auctioneers, and curators. Through their connections and points of contact, these people create the Inuit Art Market. How does Inuit art move through the art market? How is authenticity determined? Who decides what is valued? This exhibit, curated by UBC students, invites you to explore these questions and discover the many faces and voices of the Inuit art market.
Both exhibits sponsored by The Georgia Straight. Exhibits on display in MOA's Audain Gallery through September 25, 2011.

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Images (top right): Kenojuak Ashevak, The Enchanted Owl, 1960, stonecut. Stonecut by Iyola Kingwatsiak. Printed by Eegyudluk Pootoogook, CMC, CD 1960-024 ii. © Dorset Fine Arts. (left, top to bottom): (screen shot) Kenojuak, image courtesy NFB; (screen shot) Sananguagat: Inuit Masterworks, image courtesy NFB; (screen shot) Pitseolak, Pictures Out of My Life, image courtesy NFB.

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