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News → 21 Aug 2024

Reading Room: An Opulence of Squander

Curated by Weiyi Chang, An Opulence of Squander brings together works from the Belkin’s collection and archive with artists that consider concepts of surplus and excess to question the dual ascription of artistic work as a form of both luxury and waste. This reading room offers resources relating to the…

News → 20 Aug 2024

Works from the Collection: Kate Craig’s Straight Jacket

Anna Be and Jeffrey Boone consider Kate Craig's Straight Jacket (1980) in this instalment of Works from the Collection, which considers works in the Belkin’s permanent collections in conversation with ongoing exhibitions, programs and the world around us. This entry is part of a series written by students in the 2023/24…

News → 29 Jul 2024

Careers: Student Opportunities Winter 2024/25

The Belkin is now accepting applications for Winter 2024/25 UBC Student Work Learn positions.

News → 22 Jul 2024

The Belkin welcomes Tatiana Mellema as Curator of Outdoor Art

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia is pleased to announce that Tatiana Mellema has been appointed the gallery's Curator of Outdoor Art effective August 14, 2024.

News → 19 Jun 2024

Reading Room: This Is An Emergency Broadcast

This Is An Emergency Broadcast connects Indigenous political advocacy with the forms of communication offered by community radio, countering power chronicles of state and corporate media and, in its self-determination, offering space for reignited narratives. A project with artist and activist Marianne Nicolson (Musga̱maḵw Dzawada̱’enux̱w), This Is An Emergency Broadcast…