Celebrating the arts of the Arctic
It seems like a long time since I first heard about the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s plans to create a special space for its enormous collection of Inuit art. The WAG certainly needed it, as they had so much wonderful art and so little space to display it! But that’s no longer the case. I made Read More …
The decision of long-time Treasurer Si Gilman to step down at the end of 2019 resulted in a variety of changes to the Inuit Art Society Board for 2020. Mike Foor-Pessin will continue as President and Fred Sparling will continue as the board’s Secretary. Lou Jungheim is leaving his post as Vice President to become Read More …
Mike Foor-Pessin is currently teaching English on both the high school and college levels. Recently, his teaching has expanded beyond the classroom into offering educational seminars on the use of mindfulness and mythological thinking to create the cosmological classroom. Three years ago, he established the Inuit Art Enthusiasts Facebook group, a social media community that Read More …
Koomuatuk (Kuzy) Curley. Growing up in Cape Dorset, NU, Kuzy was surrounded by carvings and carvers. The sculptor has a lot to show where he comes from and he does it really well with his stunning carvings. Being a third generation carver, he is the new millennium carver of this family. With great talent and Read More …
Marion (Mame) Jackson is Professor Emerita at The University of Michigan and Wayne State University (Detroit) and taught also at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada); she worked closely with Inuit artists and with Canadian national institutions in organizing exhibitions of contemporary Inuit art in the 1980s and 1990s. Mame is Co-Curator for Tillirnanngittuq, will discuss this exhibition Read More …
Christine Lalonde is a curator and art historian who has worked with Inuit artists since the mid-1990s and is currently the Associate Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Her many exhibition projects have advanced the understanding of Inuit art and represent a balance between theory and practice, between commemorating Read More …
Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk scholar and independent curator who holds the University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement at Concordia University, which is seated on unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation,who are recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters of Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. This area is historically known as a Read More …
Keeping a high-quality publication like the Inuit Art Quarterly going is a challenge. Earlier this year the Inuit Art Foundation, the publisher of Inuit Art Quarterly, was looking at a year end budget shortfall. A request for help brought additional funding from over 140 donors. The Inuit Art Society was one of those donors who Read More …
There is still a little time to see Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit, a stunning exhibit of historic Alaskan Yup’ik masks and Matisse drawings influenced by them, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. But there isn’t much time, with the show closing the first week of February. This large exhibit brings Read More …
The Inuit Studies Conference will be held at the University of Quebec in Montreal on October 3-6, 2019. The Inuit Studies Conference is an international and multidisciplinary conference showcasing both Inuit traditional knowledge and expertise as well as academic research from a wide variety of disciplines on topics relating to Inuit peoples and the Inuit homeland. The Read More …