Lecture: Nancy Campbell on Shuvinai Ashoona

Free for Members or with Gallery Admission. Registration is Required.

Join independent curator and Inuit art expert Dr. Nancy G. Campbell on opening weekend of the exhibition Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds to discuss the artist’s work and her outstanding contributions to the visual arts in Canada and beyond.

Dr. Campbell’s lecture will provide insight into the artistic traditions of Northern Inuit communities, and she will share stories from her travels to the North, where she developed close relationships with Shuvinai Ashoona and others artists working in Kinngait (Cape Dorset). She will also discuss the positioning of Inuit art within mainstream contemporary art markets and how it has been segregated from other Indigenous art in museums.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Nancy G. Campbell has been an independent curator and scholar of contemporary and Inuit art since 1993. She has held numerous curatorial positions including guest curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, curator at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (now the Art Gallery of Guelph), University of Guelph; director of the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough; adjunct curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; and curator of special projects at the Art Gallery of Ontario. From 2014 to 2015, she served as the editor of the Inuit Art Quarterly. Her current research focuses on contemporary Inuit drawing. Dr. Campbell holds a Masters’ degree in Art History and Arts Education from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Art History from York University.