Thinking Indigenous Curating: Inuit Knowledge and Contemporary Exhibition Practice

The Inaugural Terry Smith Lecture in Contemporary Art
Speaker: Heather Igloliorte

Carnegie Museum of Art and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh are pleased to welcome Dr. Heather Igloliorte as the inaugural scholar for the Annual Terry Smith Lecture in Contemporary Art. An Inuk and Newfoundlander from Nunatsiavut, Dr. Igloliorte holds the Tier 1 University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts and is an associate professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal. She co-directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre with Prof. Jason Edward Lewis, and directs the nation-wide Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq / Pijariuqsarniq Project (2018-2025), an initiative that supports Inuit and Inuvialuit postsecondary students to explore professional career paths in all aspects of the arts, including collections management, curatorial practice, arts administration and other areas of the visual and performing arts, in order to address the longstanding absence of Inuit in agential positions within Canadian art history and museum practice.

To register for this event, please visit the CMOA website