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DESCRIPTION:Heather Igloliorte will present at the seminar in Indigenous Ar
 ts in Transition on Wednesday\, October 13\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is enti
 tled “Visiting INUA: Curating the Inaugural Exhibition of the New Inuit Ar
 t Centre\, Qaumajuq.” In this seminar\, Inuk scholar and curator Dr. Heath
 er Igloliorte will discuss the processes\, motivations\, insights\, and In
 digenous epistemologies and ontologies that informed the creation and inst
 allation of the first exhibition of the new international Inuit Art Centre
 \, Qaumajuq\, which opened at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in March of 2021. I
 NUA\, which refers to spirit or life force and is also an acronym for Inui
 t Nunangat Ungammuaktut Atautikkut or ‘Inuit Moving Forward Together\,’ is
  the result of a large-scale collaboration with not only an exceptional te
 am of emerging curators\, artists\, and academics\, but also with numerous
  other Inuit and Inuvialuit who contributed to the development of the exhi
 bition. The exhibition is a ground-breaking survey of contemporary Inuit a
 rt from Alaska\, Canada\, and Greenland—or Inuit Nunaat—which features ove
 r one hundred works made by more than 90 artists in diverse media ranging 
 from sound and video\, painting\, textile work\, wearable art\, installati
 on\, sculpture\, and more.Dr. Heather Igloliorte (Inuk and Newfoundlander\
 , Nunatsiavut) is the University Research Chair in circumpolar indigenous 
 arts at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke/ Montreal\, where she co-direct
 s the Indigenous Futures Research Centre and directs Inuit Futures in Arts
  Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq / Pijariuqsarniq Project (2018–2025)\, an 
 initiative that supports Inuit and Inuvialuit postsecondary students to ex
 plore professional career paths in all aspects of the arts. Igloliorte's r
 esearch focuses on Inuit and other circumpolar Indigenous art histories\, 
 material and new media art practices\, critical Indigenous museology\, and
  curatorial studies. She publishes frequently on Indigenous art and curato
 rial practice and has been a curator for sixteen years. Igloliorte is the 
 president of the Board of the Inuit Art Foundation\; she also serves as th
 e co-chair of the Indigenous Circle for the Winnipeg Art Gallery\; is on t
 he board of directors for the Native North American Art Studies Associatio
 n\; and sits on the faculty council of the Otsego Institute for Native Ame
 rican Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown\, New York\, a
 mong others. This event will be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated t
 o registrants by 10 am on the day of the event. This event will be live wi
 th automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Visiting INUA: Curating the Inaugural Exhibit
 ion of the New Inuit Art Centre\, Qaumajuq
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