EXHIBITIONS

The Vancouver Metal Arts Association is the largest annual presenter of juried art jewellery exhibitions in Western Canada. Members of VMAA's exhibitions committee have presented over a dozen juried or curated exhibitions in the Metro Vancouver region.

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Exhibitions

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EVOLVING SPACES (2024)

Co-presented by the Craft Council of BC and the Vancouver Metal Arts Association, in their biennial juried exhibition, Evolving Spaces: Transitional in Nature asked artists to explore their relationship and interpretation of liminal spaces.

The 24 selected artists investigated shrinking spaces, displacement, loss, pursuing freedom, changes of perspective, self-discovery, and the search for safety.

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UNEARTHED (2022)

Co-presented by the Craft Council of BC and the Vancouver Metal Arts Association, Unearthed is a juried group exhibition of contemporary jewellery and metal arts featuring the work of 24 artists.

Unearthed invited artists to uncover and share the discoveries made through process, particularly through the trials and tribulations of recent times. The exhibition presents a rare glimpse into the creative process and the outcomes achieved through meditations on studio practice.

Process work - sketches, maquettes, samples, etc. - were be a component of the final exhibition, and showcased alongside the final works of art.

Pictured:

raised vessel

by Kristin Cooper

copper

Selected Artists

BEAUX ARTS (2021)

2021 was the 150th year of the birth of Italian Canadian Sculptor Charles Marega (24 September, 1871–March 1939). In honour of Marega the Italian Cultural Centre and the Il Museo Gallery partnered with the Vancouver Metal Arts Association (VMAA) for the current exhibition BEAUX ARTS. The title Beaux Arts was chosen for its reference to the artistic style of which Marega was an interpreter.

"...While the theme of Beaux-Arts goes hand-in-hand with one of its most celebrated exponents... [VMAA recognizes] some of his works were raised as monuments on traditional, ancestral and unceded lands, and that they may serve as unwelcome symbols. We recognize this is a catalyst for timely dialogue, and would like to invite artists inspired by these themes, and who have explored it in their work, to submit for exhibition."

Pictured:

Detail of a six-foot-long

beaded staircase

by Angela Adair

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"Deformation as an Object"(2019)

by Ariel Lavian

Copper

DISRUPT (2020)

In 2020, the Vancouver Metal Arts Association and Craft Council of BC presented DISRUPT, a juried group exhibition of artists whose work and creative practices explore and discover new materials, and techniques and challenge the status quo. These artists experiment and take risks with ideas and materials, and the exhibit includes pieces with concepts and materials that push the expectations of adornment.

Pictured:

"Deformation as an Object"(2019)

by Ariel Lavian

Copper

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