Events

While programs are geared towards our fellows’ learning goals, the Emerging Curators Institute wants to make curatorial education accessible, so our events are free and open to the public. Join us for an upcoming event on topics relevant to curatorial practice.

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Upcoming Events

Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin: A Curatorial Talk by Kablusiak

February 1, 2023
5:30pm
All My Relations Gallery
1414 East Franklin Avenue #1
Minneapolis, MN 55404

This event is free and open to the public. Please register for a spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/atautchikun-wahkotamowin-a-curatorial-talk-by-kablusiak-tickets-465469641227

In partnership with All My Relations Gallery and FD13 residency for the arts.

Inuit have always engaged in and responded to contemporary dialogues, media, and technologies. Stereotypical conventions around Inuit art since contact—i.e. works depicting traditional Inuit activities and scenes of northern animals—have created a false canon of Inuit art that does not take into account or represent the contemporaneity, breadth, or depth of Inuit culture, nor their art forms. This curatorial talk will speak to Inuit art histories, presents and futures through the exhibition Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin (Remai Modern, Saskatchewan, 2021-2022), co-curated by Kablusiak and Missy LeBlanc. Initially sparked by large collections of Inuit art across the Prairie, the exhibition began with a selection of works from the Remai Modern’s permanent collection that push against the notion of a culture frozen in time. These works were put in relation to new commissions by artists connected to Inuk artists represented in the museum’s collection, as well as artists with ancestral connections to the lands the host museum occupies. Like the exhibition, Kablusiak’s talk aims to continue generative discussion on the threads that tie Inuit to Indigenous communities of the South.

About Kablusiak
As a multidisciplinary Inuvialuk artist and curator, Kablusiak seeks to demystify Inuit art and create space for diverse Inuit-led representation. Their artistic practice uses humor and Inuk ingenuity to engage materials such as lingerie, Sharpies, bed sheets, felt, acrylic paint, and words to invite empathy and solidarity to explore diasporic cultural displacement, family and community ties, and impacts of colonization on Inuit gender and sexuality expressions, health and wellbeing, and the everyday. Kablusiak’s recent and upcoming exhibitions include Qiniqtuaq, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis (2023), Up Front, Onsite Gallery, OCAD, Toronto (2022), After Care, Mitchell Gallery, Alberta University of the Arts, Edmonton (2022), and Ublaak tikiyuak, artspeak, Vancouver, BC (2020). Along with Atautchikun | wâhkôtamowin, Remai Modern, Saskatchewan (2021-22), their recent co-curatorial work includes INUA, the inaugural exhibition of 90 artists working across Inuit Nanangot and beyond at Qaumajuq, the Inuit art center, Winnepeg Art Gallery (2021). Kablusiak is based in Mohkinstsis.

Past Events

Sutures

October 30, 2021-February 20, 2022
Minnesota Museum of American Art

Additional Programming
Seeing New Potentialities
A conversation between Michael Khuth, Cheryl Mukerji, Prune Phi, Sopheak Sam, and Daniella Thach on Sutures.
Zoom hosted by Minnesota Museum of American Art
Saturday, November 13, 2021
12-1:30pm (Central Time)

Info Session

January 11, 2022
Hosted via Zoom
6pm (Central Time)

After, Other, and Before

September 25 – December 31, 2021
Franconia Sculpture Park

Additional Programming:
Virtual Dinner & Discussion: Kehayr Brown-Ransaw
Streamed via Facebook Live
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
6pm (Central Time)

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 25, 2021
4-6pm

Dinner and Discussion: Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, Timothy Manalo, Nico Sardina, Beau Tate, Kieran Tverbakk
Streamed via Facebook Live
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
6pm (Central Time)

Nico Sardina, Frame from Trick Run Ran, 2017

bisakaabiiyang (returning to ourselves)

October 14-December 11, 2021
All My Relations Arts

Additional Programming
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
6-8pm

Closing Reception
Fluid Futurism: A Virtual Conversation with Adrienne Huard and Coyote Park
Thursday, December 9th, 2021
6pm