[BCMA] Reminder: MOA opens Inuit shows on Sun @ 1!

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TWO NEW EXHIBITS OPENING AT MOA SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2011, 1-4 pm

Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration - James Houston, Un'ichi Hiratsuka and the Inuit Print Tradition and Faces and Voices of the Inuit Art Market

This Sunday, MOA celebrates the opening of two new shows, with remarks at 1 pm by special guest Norman Vorano, curator of Inuit Prints, and a fantastic series of animated videos for the whole family running all afternoon! (visit www.moa.ubc.ca/events<http://www.moa.ubc.ca/events> for video titles).

Joining the fun will be members of the Vancouver Draw Down team (1:30-3:30 pm), to present a come-and-go workshop called (F)Light of Birds: Collaborative Pinprick Drawings. Participants of all ages will create a flock of birds drawn from points of light that will end up on the windows of Café MOA!

Both exhibits sponsored by The Georgia Straight. Exhibits on display in MOA's Audain Gallery through September 25, 2011. MOA members & UBC staff, students & faculty ALWAYS free.
Image: Stiletto. Print by Mannomee Kavovaow, Kinngait, Cape Dorset, Nunavut, 2010. Image reproduced with permission from Dorset Fine Arts.




Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration - James Houston, Un'ichi Hiratsuka and the Inuit Print Tradition
This exhibit, curated by Norman Vorano, features exquisite and extraordinarily rare prints from Japan and Cape Dorset, Nunavut, from the late 1950s and early 1960s. It also tells the little-known story of how, fifty years ago, the Canadian artist and 'discoverer' of Inuit art, James Houston, travelled to Japan to study printmaking with Un'ichi Hiratsuka, and returned to Canadian Arctic to share his new-found knowledge with Inuit printmakers Osuitok Ipeelee, Iyola Kingwatsiak, Lukta Qiatsuk, Kananginak Pootoogook and Eegyvudluk Pootoogook. Their studio produced its first annual collection and released it to the public in January 1960. Since then, art collectors around the world have been continually surprised by Cape Dorset's fresh, imaginative and original artworks on paper. Exhibition organized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the assistance of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset.

Dr. Norman Vorano is Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec. A graduate of the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester, New York, his areas of research include historic and contemporary Inuit arts from across Canada, with wider interests in North American Indigenous arts. He is on the Board of the Native American Art Studies Association and is a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. He is currently producing an exhibition and catalogue on contemporary artists from Cape Dorset.

Faces and Voices of the Inuit Art Market
A sculpture is more than carved stone and a print is more than coloured paper. Many people play a role in the life of a work of art: from the artist, to the dealers, collectors, purchasers, auctioneers, and curators. Through their connections and points of contact, these people create the Inuit Art Market. How does Inuit art move through the art market? How is authenticity determined? Who decides what is valued? This exhibit, curated by UBC students, invites you to explore these questions and discover the many faces and voices of the Inuit art market.



Jennifer Webb  Communications Manager
jennifer.webb at ubc.ca<mailto:jennifer.webb at ubc.ca>
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