William Huffman

Sharing some details about the exhibition Shuvinai Ashoona: Holding on to Universes taking place Friday 7 February  to Sunday 22 March 2020. Preview reception Friday 7 February from 7pm to 9pm at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow. The West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative it thriller to partner on this terrific show. Special thanks to the Canadian High Commission to the United Kingdom and Pierre François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal. @cca_glasgow @canadaintheuk @dorsetfinearts #shuvinaiashoona #westbaffineskimocooperative #kinngaitstudios #capedorset #nunavut #inuitart #canadianart (at Glasgow, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7BQodHgZV3/?igshid=ar7vjl5xnsir

Sixty years of art making at #WestBaffinEskimoCooperative ... Beth Brown looks at the organization’s past and future in @upheremag #CapeDorset #Inuit #art #WBEC60 @dorsetfinearts tinyurl.com/y6lee7du (at Cape Dorset, Nunavut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxqVJylB-cM/?igshid=j6drc2n4xm0p

Curator #NancyCampbell assisted by @rbc Curatorial Fellow @justinekohleal conducts a virtual tour of @thepowerplantto #ShuvinaiAshoona exhibition for a group of 30 assembled @kenojuakcentre @capedorset ... the engagement was made possible using an #iPad and @ciscocanada video conferencing system. Special thanks to @takingitglobal @dorsetfinearts and #WestBaffinEskimoCooperative (at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/williamkhuffman/p/BuW0FO1AAFf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i6wj0uutmp65

Unexpected find in #paris a guide book to #nunavut and the North West Passage ... entirely in French! Thanks to Maryse Saraux at Art Inuit in the Marais for the publication. @nicoleetjeanlucalbouy (at Art Inuit Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtSw50Hg2WC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gxx28eyu8mz2

Setting up for a talk at Cerny Inuit Collection in #bern #switzerland🇨🇭 ... on the subject of @capedorset #inuitart history and the 60th anniversary of the #WestBaffinEskimoCooperative. Special thanks to @marthacerny and @cerny_peter! @dorsetfinearts #wbec60 (at Bern) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtImvcYnRCO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gtey5nook08b

Got our first press hit about #WestBaffinEskimoCooperative 60th anniversary program by Eilís Quinn for #EyeontheArctic / Regard sur l'Arctique #RadioCanadaInternational #WBEC60 @dorsetfinearts ... this link should get you to the piece tinyurl.com/y7dnqwq2 ... (at Cape Dorset, Nunavut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsajUENHFSp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dzdphk3vwh15

Sharing our first press hit about #WestBaffinEskimoCooperative 60th anniversary program by Eilís Quinn for #EyeontheArctic / Regard sur l'Arctique #RadioCanadaInternational tinyurl.com/y7dnqwq2 #WBEC60 @dorsetfinearts (at Cape Dorset, Nunavut) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsaidSZnXgA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1b3s9ore8yk54

Also during #401BuiltforArt @401richmond our retail and hospitality partners @darkhorsecafe, #TheRoasteryCoffeeHouse, @spacingstore and @swipedesign will provide unique @nuitblancheto experiences. #nbTO18 (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoRiEDUHS91/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f7wo4oz0c5lb

The #401BuiltforArt program @401Richmond includes tenant participants @aspacegallery, @abbozzogallery, @cinecycle, @esmeralda_enrique, @bygoodgorilla, @openstudio_toronto, @prefix_ica, @redheadgallery, @tangled_arts, @thetelltoronto, @trinitysquare, @yumartgallery and @yyzartistsoutlet. #nbto18 (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoRhcz1nPfW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vfbj1tw9vhtw

The #401BuiltforArt @401Richmond program @nuitblancheTO has #ShuvinaiAshoona + @DorsetFineArts, #ErinMacKeen, #EllenBleiwas, @BalletJorgenCA, #CarolCheong, @NicholasContrera + @LOFTCS, @DavidHannan, @mayfield.ss, #JessieSheng + @OCAD @CherRondeau , @rzlbd & @RyersonU. (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoRgxKrHX1I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yb0w04j59wvp

One of four selfie backdrops by #CapeDorset #Inuit artist #ShuvinaiAshoona that we'll feature as part of #401BuiltforArt @401Richmond during @nuitblancheTO ... looking forward to welcoming the 20,000 culture vultures that usually visit the building. #nbTO18 @dorsetfinearts (at 401 Richmond Street West) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoOzat1ne7V/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7ay64enmamj7

Meant to post this sooner ... image from last week’s opening of Crosscurrents: Canada in the Making @textilemuseumofcanada. This is a screen-printed yardage by Cape Dorset Inuit artist Ovilu Tunnillie (1949–2014) entitled “Friendly Whales’’ from the 1960s. The following is an excerpt from the didactic panel ... An undocumented collection of 181 Inuit screen printed fabrics created in the 1960s, was donated to the Textile Museum of Canada in 2017. Building on a centuries-old Inuit graphic tradition, printmaking was introduced in Cape Dorset through the establishment of a printmaking co-op by Canadian artist James Houston in 1958. The practice began as an economic incentive for the Inuit, who were making the transition from subsistence hunting and trapping to a wage economy in settled communities. By the 1960s, a number of Inuit artists were using the co-op studio, among them Ovilu Tunnillie, who contributed to the Cape Dorset print program. The program initially included a commercial hand-printed fabric enterprise, but manufactured textiles from the North found a limited market, and this component was ultimately abandoned in the late 1960s. @dorsetfinearts #crosscurrents (at Textile Museum of Canada)

A very #losangeles #CanadaDayUSA with Dr. Thomas Folland ... event hosted by the Consulate General of Canada at the official residence of Consul General James Villeneauve. @folles71 @dorsetfinearts (at Official Residence of the Consul General of Canada)

Panoramic preview of #Akunnitinni at Armory Center for the Arts in #Pasadena. Terrific installation! Features the work of #CapeDorset #InuitArtists #PitseolakAshoona, #NapachiePootoogook and #AnniePootoogook. Opens tonight ... there’s a curatorial walkthrough with Andrea R. Hanley at 5pm (I’ll be hanging around too) followed by the opening festivities! Drop by if you are in town! And visit armoryarts.org for more details. @arhanley @armoryarts @iaiamocna @dorsetfinearts (at Armory Center for the Arts)

End of the evening shot from a @dorsetfinearts event at @catincatabacaru Gallery in #NYC. Pleasure spending time with (L to R) Catinca Tabacaru, Nancy @brooklynmuseum Catherine Scheinman @canadainny gallery artist Gail Stoicheff @circe76 Ali Ebrahimi @aliebrahiminyc #RaphaelGuilbert #MichaelDevlinII #EddGuarino and all the other attendees! (at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery)

Sharing some images from the current exhibition at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto entitled The thin gate clanged. Terrific installation featuring work by Paul P. And B. Wurtz. @coopercole @paulp #torontoartscene (at COOPER COLE)

Visited @claremontgraduateuniversity one day before commencement ... attended an event program for the Arts & Humanities Department graduates ... congratulations to Linda Dzhema for such an engaging and complex installation entitled Imageconomy! (at Claremont Graduate University)