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Join us for our first Virtual Art-Talk! Learn more about how Kinngait textile printing impacted contemporary Inuit fashion design.

About this Art-Talk

For our first Virtual Art-Talk, Textile Museum of Canada Curator Alexandria Holm will speak about contemporary Inuit fashion designers featured in her exhibition Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios. These include Martha Kyak of InukChic, Nooks Lindell of Hinaani Design, and Tarralik Duffy of Ugly Fish. The exhibition explores a little-known story of a group of Inuit artists and printmakers who produced a collection of graphic textiles in Kinngait, Nunavut, during the 1950's and 60's -- a traumatic period during which colonial efforts disrupted traditional language and relationships to the Land. Alexandria will trace the evolution and impact of the Kinngait textile printing initiative on Inuit graphic arts and entrepreneurialism to become a story about Inuit cultural survival and celebration in the 21st century.

About Alexandria Holm

Alexandria Holm is a Toronto based art historian and the Curatorial Project Coordinator of Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, an exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada.

Alexandria received her MA in Art History and diploma in Curatorial Studies in Visual Culture from York University, and her BA in Art History from McGill University. She has nine years of broad experience in both public and private art businesses, including museums, commercial art galleries and artist-run centers in Toronto, ON, Hamilton, ON and Montréal, QC.