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Congratulations to the 2024 Bill McLennan Masterpiece Study Program Recipients!

January 31, 2025

By Program and Administrative Coordinator

The Bill McLennan Masterpiece Study Program (BMMSP) honours the memory of distinguished Museum of Anthropology

curator and long-time YVRAF Board member Bill McLennan who spearheaded this important program. BMMSP awards travel grants to Indigenous artists and community researchers who are going to further their practice through hands-on study of BC and Yukon Indigenous collections held in the care of YVRAF museum partners across Canada and around the globe.

 

We are thrilled to start the year with congratulations to the 2024 Bill McLennan Masterpiece Study Program Recipients!

Kimberly Ronning, Interior Salish – American Museum of Natural History, NYC

Jasper Berehulke, Syilx Okanagan – Field Museum, Chicago

Bruce Alfred, Kwakwaka’wakw – Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau 

Jaalen Edenshaw, Haida – Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau

Agnes Seaweed Wisden, Namgis –Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

Atheana Picha, Interior Salish –Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

Learn more about Bill McLennan and his work with the Museum of Anthropology here.

BMMSP DONORS AND PARTNERS

YVR Art Foundation gratefully acknowledges the donors, award delivery partners, and cultural organizations whose generous support makes this program possible:

Official Travel Partner of the 2024 BMMSP Awards 

Thanks to:

Clive & Janice Grout

 

 

 

 

 

YVRAF Founding Donor:

 

 

Our gratitude to all our participating partner museums:

American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA

Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum in Seattle, USA

Field Museum in Chicago, USA

Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, Germany

Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK

Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Québec
McCord Museum in Montréal, Québec

Museum of Vancouver in Vancouver, BC

UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC

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YVR Art Foundation acknowledges that its offices are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people. The Foundation’s work and outreach spans the territories of many Nations throughout what is now known as British Columbia and the Yukon, and our programs exist for the purpose of supporting BC and Yukon First Nations artists with grants, awards, exhibitions and research opportunities. We honour with gratitude the Nations who have cared for the lands on which we work, reside and visit, and who have stewarded them since time immemorial.