Inuit-Qallunaat Visual Encounters with Carol Payne

Presented in partnership with Ottawa Art Gallery <br>Hosted by The Ottawa Citizen’s Peter Simpson

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Admission

Free

Sunday

Oct , 2015

2:00pm

Eastern

Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks St. • Ottawa

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Inuit-Qallunaat Visual Encounters with Carol Payne

Payne shows herself to be an accomplished art and cultural historian.

Annie Gérin, Université du Québec à Montréal

Dr. Carol Payne looks at how Qallunaat (southerners in the Inuktitut language) have depicted Inuit and how Inuit have responded with photography, historically a tool of explorers, ethnographers, missionaries, and governments in the North and, more recently, a creative vehicle for Inuit artists and community groups.

This event complements the Ottawa Art Gallery’s exhibition of art works by Kathleen Daly and George Pepper, two artists whose work extensively depicted the Arctic and Inuit living there.

The Authors

Carol Payne

Carol Payne is Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University and a research associate of the university’s Public History program. She is the author of The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division and the Image of Canadian Nationhood, 1941-1971. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013) and coeditor with Andrea Kunard of The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011). She is also author of numerous essays on photography, from the historic to the contemporary. Under current and past SSHRCC awards, she is principal investigator of the photo-based oral history project Views from the North, a collaboration with the Ottawa-based Inuit school Nunavut Sivuniksavut, Library and Archives Canada and Carleton University’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre.