The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia is thrilled to announce that Tania Willard has been appointed the gallery’s Director/Curator beginning January 1, 2026.
The Belkin is now accepting applications for summer Work Learn student positions.
As we remember BC artist Anna Banana (1940-2024), who was a pioneer in the mail art movement from 1971, we are pleased to share her 1998 work Bananas in Distress, newly digitized thanks to the generous support of the BC History Digitization Program at UBC.
This reading room offers resources relating to the themes and artists present in the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital.
The Belkin shares the community’s sadness at the recent passing of artist Anna Banana on November 29 in Sechelt, BC. Born in Victoria as Anne Lee Long, Anna Banana was a conceptual, performance and mail artist who adopted her pseudonym in 1971 when she began corresponding with the international mail…