MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY

INUIT PRINTS: JAPANESE INSPIRATION

June 19 — September 25

Curator's Talk: Tuesday, July 19, 7 —9 pm


This exhibition 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. With Japanese prints and tools in hand, Houston returned to the Canadian Arctic and resumed work alongside the five original Inuit printmakers — Osuitok Ipeelee, Iyola Kingwatsiak, Lukta Qiatsuk, Kananginak Pootoogook and Eegyvudluk Pootoogook. By juxtaposing the earliest Cape Dorset prints with the actual Japanese prints that inspired the Inuit printmakers in 1959, the exhibition examines the many ways in which the Cape Dorset artists creatively "localized" Japanese influences. The exhibition is organized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.


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