Helen Pitt Gallery
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Since its inception as a student-run gallery in 1975, the Helen Pitt Gallery has been through many changes. Originally named after the Vernon, B.C. art patron who established a scholarship endowment for young artists, the gallery survived the loss of the Vancouver School of Art's support in the early 1980s, when that school changed its name to Emily Carr College of Art and Design and moved to Granville Island. The Unit 306 Society For The Democratization Of Art took over the management of the gallery in 1982, which then became the Unit/Pitt Gallery. A subsequent move to larger premises on Powell Street in Gastown coincided with another change of name, this time to the ironically overstuffed Pitt International Galleries (PIG). Two moves later, in a storefront on the advancing edge of Yaletown gentrification, the Helen Pitt name was restored. In the fall of 2009, faced with massive losses of revenue due to disastrous policy decisions made by the B.C. government, the gallery closed its location on Alexander Street. In 2011, Unit/Pitt Projects opened in Vancouver's Chinatown, with a mandate to support innovative curatorial projects by artists, cultural workers, and others. Our current program includes artists' radio, an annual festival of "art bands" and music by visual artists, evening screenings in our front window, a substantial program of artists' publishing, and exhibitions, performances, public actions, and talks.
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