The Lieutenant-Governor, aboriginal artists from both the Northwest and Southwest, donors and friends gathered in Vancouver to celebrate the opening of the Totems to Turquoise exhibition over two nights, October 25 and 26, 2006. The exhibition will run until March 25, 2007 at the Vancouver Museum. Below are photographs. Click here for the text of Her Honour’s speech.
Her Honour the Hon. Iona Campagnolo, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia and Honourary Patron of the Bill Reid Foundation, admires the Totems to Turquoise exhibition with Southwest artists, Steve LaRance and Veronica Pablano. Foundation President, George MacDonald, in the background.
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The Hon. Iona Campagnolo with Haida artist, Christian White, and Southwest Advising Artist to the exhibition, Jesse Monongye, Navajo-Hopi.;
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The Hon. Iona Campagnolo talks with Rosemary Hart, wife of Northwest Advising Artist, Jim Hart, Haida (wearing a button blanket made for her by her husband).
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The Hon. Iona Campagnolo with Peter Whitely, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) co-curator of the exhibition, her daughter Jennifer Campagnolo, and SW artist Veronica Poblano, Zuni.
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Lois S. Dubin, co-curator of the exhibition for AMNH, with Gwaii, artist son of Guujaaw, President of the Council of the Haida Nation.
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Admiring the exhibition store, from left to right: David Gillanders, BRF Chair; Peter Whitely, AMNH co-curator of the exhibition; George MacDonald, BRF President; the Lieutenant Governor.
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Her Honour with Bill Reid Foundation Chair, David Gillanders.
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Nancy Noble, Director of the Vancouver Museum, shows The Hon. Iona Campagnolo around the exhibition.
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 Chief Jim Hart, Haida, advising artist to the exhibition, with Jennifer Campagnolo.
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The Hon. Iona Campagnolo with Haida artist Christian White.
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Haida artist Jesse Brillon with Her Honour.
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