Please join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for a conversation between curator Amy Prouty and Barrie Pottle, one of the artists featured in the exhibition Keeping Record: The Documentary Impulse in Inuit Art. Pottle’s photographs document and explore contemporary issues and realities facing urban Inuit populations, highlighting Inuit culture, identity, tradition, and lifeways.

Barry Pottle is an Inuk artist from Nunatsiavut in Labrador (Rigolet), who now resides in Ottawa. He is an emerging photographer who documents and works closely with and for the Ontario Aboriginal Arts community. His photos have been published in Makivik Magazine, Inuktitut Magazine, and Inuit Art Quarterly, and he has also contributed images to a number of local community initiatives and events.

Amy Prouty is a MA student in the Art History program at Carleton University. She is completing a thesis on contemporary Kinngait drawings and will be beginning doctoral studies at Concordia University in the fall to examine the practices of urban Inuit artists. Amy has worked with the Inuit Qaujisarvingat research centre at Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami writing about the history of Inuit research and is currently a research assistant for the SSHRC-funded Thinking through the Museum project.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale at the tunnel entrance commencing at 5:45 pm. See the visiting page of CUAG’s website for directions and details of the visitor parking in the P18 parkade.

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