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DESCRIPTION:Nelson Graburn will present in the Indigenous Arts in Transitio
 n\nSeminar on Wednesday\, November 1\, at 6 pm. His talk is entitled “Cana
 dian Inuit\nArt: Variation Over Space and Time.”This\ntalk will employ Bar
 d Graduate Center’s 2017–18 theme of “distance” to examine global\nindigen
 ous arts\, which is particularly appropriate for the discussion of\nCanadi
 an Inuit arts. The Canadian Inuit traditionally lived many thousands of\nm
 iles north of the majority of Canadians near the US border. When commercia
 l\narts were promoted in the 1940s and 50s\, the cultural and aesthetic di
 stance\nbetween Inuit producers and their White audience of buyers and mus
 eum goers was\nalmost unbridgeable\, but since then later generations of I
 nuit artists have\nbridged these geographical and artistic distances. This
  talk will draw upon\nthree sources: the arts of the Inuit of the Canadian
  Arctic with whom Graburn worked\nin the 1950s\, 60s\, and 70s\; the mains
 treaming of many Inuit artists and their\narts by moving to live in southe
 rn Canadian metropolises in the 1990s and 2000s\,\nand by the “urbanizatio
 n” of many major communities in the Arctic\; and the\nrecent attention to 
 the arts of the Nunatsiavimiut\, the Inuit of Labrador\, which\nhave been 
 gathered by art historian and curator Heather Igloliorte into the exhibiti
 on\nSakKijâjuk\n(2016-)\, and which show the whole historic and aesthetic 
 range of Inuit arts\nand crafts—from simple souvenirs\, to sculptures and 
 clothing\, to postmodern\nphotography.\n\nNelson Graburn\nis Professor Eme
 ritus of Anthropology and Curator Emeritus at the Hearst Museum\nat the Un
 iversity of California\, Berkeley\, where he taught\nsince 1964. He has he
 ld visiting appointments at the National Museum of\nCivilization in Ottawa
 \, Le Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques in Aix-en-Provence\,\nthe Nati
 onal Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka\, the Research Center for\nKor
 ean Studies\, Kyushu National University in Fukuoka\, the International\nI
 nstitute for Culture\, Tourism and Development at London Metropolitan\nUni
 versity\, and the UF Rio Grande del Sol in Porto Alegre\, Brazil. Graburn
 \nwas educated in Classics at King's\, Canterbury\, and Natural Sciences a
 nd\nAnthropology at Cambridge\, McGill\, and the University of Chicago. He
  has\ncarried out ethnographic research with the Inuit of Canada\, Alaska\
 , and\nGreenland since 1959\, in Japan (and East and Southeast Asia) since
  1974\, and in\nChina since 1991.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Canadian Inuit Art
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