YVR Art Foundation

YVR Art Foundation is an independent, nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the development and advancement of British Columbia and Yukon First Nations visual art and artists. This $10,000 award will fund two travel grants in their Bill McLennan Masterpiece Study Program, which supports BC and Yukon First Nations artists in studying collections of Indigenous art and artifacts from their own cultures that are held in the care of museums across Canada, the US and Europe. In 2021, HWI awarded YVR $10,000 which allowed for the introduction of a new grant category to the Program, the “community researcher,” which encompasses research by non-artists as well as artists.

For more information on YVRAF, please visit their website.