News 2011

December 1, 2011 (Bill Reid Gallery)
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe Book Launch Press Release

“Join Dr. Martine Reid, principal author and editor of Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe at the Bill Reid Gallery, Thursday, December 8th, 5:00 to 7:00pm for the launch of this new book, published by Harbour Publishing.”

The Bill Reid Gallery acknowledges the generous support of TELUS on this project.

November 28, 2011 (Inside Vancouver, Tourism Vancouver)
Featured Attraction of the Week: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

“The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art opened in May 2008 in downtown Vancouver.”

October 17, 2011 (The Globe and Mail, Carolyn Jack )
Vancouver is hopping even when it's sopping

“Downtown, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Bill Reid Gallery, and Contemporary Art Gallery are easy walking distance from most hotels.”

September 26, 2011 (The Peak, Wendee Lang)
Bill Reid art gifted to SFU

“Iconic Haida artist and veritable Renaissance man Bill Reid created more than 1500 works of art over the course of his career, $10 million worth of which has been recently bequeathed to Simon Fraser University.”

September 26, 2011 (Queen Charlotte Islands Observer)
Landmark gift includes over 100 works by Bill Reid

“A $10 million dollar art collection has been donated to Simon Fraser University as part of a partnership arrangement between the university and the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver.”

September 18, 2011 (Troy Media, Mike Robinson)
Innovative thinking helps West Coast art gallery gain its freedom

“In these heady days of the Arab Spring, disappearing dictators and Middle Eastern youth revolting in the cause of democracy, it can sometimes slip past our scrutiny that mature democracies still struggle with the freedom of their civil society institutions. ”

View other articles by Mike Robinson, Executive Director of the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art

September 15, 2011 (The Globe and Mail, Marsha Lederman )
Bill Reid Foundation gifts collection to SFU

“The Bill Reid Foundation has gifted its entire collection of Northwest Coast art to Simon Fraser University.”

September 15, 2011 (The Georgia Straight, Janet Smith)
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art hooks up with SFU

“The Bill Reid Foundation has gifted its entire $10 million collection to SFU in a new deal that should help sustain its gallery into the long term.”

September 15, 2011 Press Release
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“SFU receives landmark gift of Bill Reid art.”

June 17, 2011 (The Vancouver Sun, Steve Whysall)
VanDusen adds new buildings, new works of art

“Meanwhile, the garden itself at VanDusen is looking terrific and there is a new art exhibit - Haida artist Bill Reid's Black Eagle Canoe , which has been placed on the banks of Heron Lake.”

March 24, 2011 (The Vancouver Sun, Kevin Griffin)
Sentinels surrender to time

“The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is displaying a unique exhibition of photographs of totem poles in the process of being reclaimed by the forrest.”

March 23, 2011 (National Post, Nathalie Atkinson)
Exotic Canada: Souvenirs you'll want to keep

“You'd expect nothing less than the mantra “shop local” from the land of om that gave the world Lululemon. Here are a few favourite haunts for souvenirs you'll actually want to take home.”

March 18, 2011 (The Vancouver Sun, Kevin Griffin)
Adeleide de Menil: New Silences of Totem Poles

“I don’t know what I expected when I walked into the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art to see an exhibition of totem pole photographs. I guess I expected to see totem pole photographs along the lines of other totem pole photographs I’d seen before. I wasn’t prepared to see totem poles in a completely new way.”

March 16, 2011 (The Province, Lena Sin)
Totem poles before their fall

“The first time artist and curator Peter Morin saw the photos, he cried.”

January 6, 2011 (Westender, Jessica Barrett)
Hornby bike lane steering people away?

“Three weeks after the controversial Hornby Street bike lane opened, the director of a tourism-reliant business on the busy one-way street says he's nervous changes to traffic patterns will negatively affect trade this coming spring.”