Premier Visiting Speaker Series: Heather Igloliorte

Dr. Heather Igloliorte is the  University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts at  Concordia University  in  Tiohtiá:ke/ Montreal.

Dr. Heather Igloliorte is the University Research Chair in Indigenous Circumpolar Arts at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal, where she also leads the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership SSHRC Partnership Grant and Co-Directs the Indigenous Futures Research Centre. Igloliorte has been a curator for fifteen years; she currently has two exhibitions touring across Canada and is working on the inaugural exhibition of the new Inuit art centre, Qaumajuq, opening in Winnipeg in 2021. Igloliorte also serves as the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Circle for the Winnipeg Art Gallery; on the Board of Directors for North America’s largest Indigenous art historical association, the Native North American Art Studies Association; is President of the Board of the Inuit Art Foundation; and sits on the Faculty Council of the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, among others. 

Photo: Heather Igloliorte by David Lipnowski