WAG Announces All-Inuit Curatorial Team for Inuit Art Centre Inaugural Exhibits

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is pleased to announce the all-Inuit, all-female team of guest curators to create the inaugural exhibitions of the Inuit Art Centre, opening in 2020.

The team will be led by curator and academic Dr. Heather Igloliorte with emerging curators/artists Asinnajaq, Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter, and Krista Ulujuk Zawadski. Together they will present exhibitions of contemporary Inuit art that spans a wide range of media, including work produced by emerging, mid-career, and senior artists, and bringing together artists from across the Canadian Arctic and the Circumpolar World.

• QUICK FACTS:
  For the first time ever, a curatorial team will represent all regions of Inuit Nunangat, including the Inuvialuit region of the western Arctic; the territory of Nunavut; Nunavik, Quebec; and Nunatsiavut, Labrador.
• The team will curate the inaugural exhibitions in the breathtaking, 8,000-square-foot Inuit Gallery and adjacent galleries in the Inuit Art Centre, set to be one of the largest exhibition spaces in North America dedicated to Indigenous art.
• The 40,000-square-foot Inuit Art Centre will new feature exhibition, research, and learning spaces, art studios, and a glass-enclosed visible vault, presented in partnership with Inuit.
• The new building connected to the WAG on all levels is scheduled to open in 2020, Manitoba’s 150th anniversary.
• By bringing people together to create and share, the Inuit Art Centre is a path to mutual understanding and respect as Canada builds roads to reconciliation.
• With over 13,000 carvings, drawings, prints, textiles, photographs, and new media, and thousands more on loan, the WAG holds in trust the largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art on earth. The collection is supported by an unparalleled record of Inuit art exhibitions, publications, and research.
• Established in 1912, the WAG is Canada’s oldest civic art gallery.

Dr. Heather Igloliorte and the curatorial team will lead the inaugural exhibition process from start to finish. They will identify artists, select pieces from the WAG collection and new work by emerging artists, as well as oversee all aspects of the creative process, extending to education and public programming. We can’t wait to see what they come up with! 
—Andrew Kear, Chief Curator, Winnipeg Art Gallery

ASSOCIATED LINKS: 
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Inuit Art Centre

·         ᓴᕿᑕᐅᓂᑯ 1912, ᐅᓇ ᕖᓂᐱᒃ ᓴᓇᖕᖑᐊᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕕ ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᓄᑕᐅᓐᖏᓐᓂᖅᐹᖅ ᑕᒫᓂ ᓴᓇᖕᖑᐊᖅᓯᒪᔪᓄᑦ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕕᖓ.

ᓘᒃᑖᖅ ᕼᐃᑦᑐ ᐃᒡᓗᓕᐅᖅᑎ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑲᒪᔨᐅᔪᑦ ᓯᕗᓕᐅᕆᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᐱᒋᐊᕈᑕᐅᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᐅᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᐱᓕᕆᐊᖑᕙᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ ᐱᒋᐊᓂᖓᓂᑦ ᐃᓱᐊᓄᑦᐱᔭᕇᕐᓂᖓᓄᑦ. ᓇᓗᓇᐃᖅᓯᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᓴᓇᖕᖑᐊᖅᑎᓂᒃ, ᓂᖁᐊᖅᓯᓗᑎᒃ ᓴᓇᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᐃᑲᖓᑦ ᕖᓂᐱᒃ ᓴᓇᖕᖑᐊᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕕᖓᓂᑦ ᓄᐊᑕᐅᓯᒪᔪᓂᑦ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓄᑖᑦᓴᓇᔭᐅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᓴᓇᖕᖑᐊᖅᑎᖑᕐᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᓂᑦ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗᑦᑕᐅᖅ ᑲᒪᔨᐅᖃᑦᑕᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᑦ ᑕᒪᐃᓐᓂᒃ ᖃᓄᕆᑦᑐᑐᐃᓐᓇᓂᒃ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪᓂ ᐱᕙᓪᓕᐊᔭᐅᔪᓂᒃ, ᑎᑭᐅᑎᒻᒪᕆᒡᓗᒋᑦ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᕐᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓄᓕᒫᓄᑦ ᐱᓕᕆᑎᑦᑎᓂᕐᒧᑦ. ᐅᐊᕋᔮᖅ ᑕᑯᓛᕋᖁ ᑭᓱᓂᑭᐊᖅ ᐋᕿᒃᓯᓛᖅᑐᑦ!
— ᐋᓐᑐᓘ ᑭᐅ, ᐊᖓᔪᖅᑳᖅ ᓴᓇᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑲᒪᔨᐅᔪᑦ, ᕖᓂᐱᒃ ᓴᓇᖕᖑᐊᖅᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ ᑕᑯᔭᒐᖃᕐᕕᖓᓂ

ᐊᑕᔪᑦ ᖃᕆᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᒪᑐᐃᕈᓐᓇᖅᑐᑦ: 
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Inuit Art Centre