Please join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for an exhibition tour of "Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration" with co-curators Norman Vorano and Ming Tiampo.

A specialist in post-war Japanese art, Ming Tiampo proposed the initial idea of an exhibition exploring the cross-cultural effects of James Houston’s 1959 visit to Japan to learn about printmaking and subsequent sharing of this knowledge with Inuit artists in Cape Dorset. Together, Norman Vorano, Asato Ikeda, and Ming Tiampo developed Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration, which through a selection of rare, early prints and more well-known recent works, tells this remarkable story.

Norman Vorano is Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Visual and Material Culture and Assistant Professor in Art History at Queen’s University, Kingston. Vorano was previously curator of Contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. He completed his PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and has taught at Concordia University and Carleton University. He is on the board of the Native American Art Studies Association and is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society.

Ming Tiampo is Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University. She specializes in post-1945 Japanese art, and examines the cultural consequences of globalization through her interest in transnational modernism. She obtained her Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University in 2003 with a dissertation on Gutai and Informel. Tiampo’s books include Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Gutai: Splendid Playground co-edited with Alexandra Munro (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2013), and Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960 (Asato Ikeda, University of British Columbia, Aya Louisa McDonald, University of Nevada and Ming Tiampo, Carleton University, 2012). She is the recipient of the Independent International Art Critics Association 2013 award for Best Thematic Museum Show in New York for Gutai: Splendid Playground.

Discount parking passes will be available for sale starting at 6:30 p.m. See “visiting” on CUAG’s web site for details.

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