5 November, Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.
Hood Museum of Art Auditorium
LECTURE
"Continuity and Transformation in Eastern Arctic Art"
Heather Igloliorte, Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, will discuss the history of visual arts production and the recent proliferation of contemporary arts in the Eastern Arctic / Subarctic Inuit Territory of Nunatsiavut. She will examine the impact that modernist primitivism, the cooperative movement, and other Arctic art world developments have had on the arts in this region; discuss the transformation of the arts today in light of the establishment of self-governance in Nunatsiavut; and draw on artworks documented during her research as well as works from the Hood's collection.