museums
Inuit Landscape Art Exhibition Opens in Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Art Gallery announced last week that an exhibition of Inuit landscape art will be on display beginning on May 10, 2008. Inuit artists started producing art work for sale to markets in the south after the late 1940s, when they moved off the land and into permanent settlements. They needed to find sources […]
Hutterite Children Take Photos of their Colonies
The Billings Gazette reported on Saturday that a non-Hutterite artist has prepared a photography exhibit of daily life in six Hutterite colonies for display in several Montana museums. The unique aspect of the exhibit is that the photos were all shot last fall by Hutterite children, with the permission of their colony elders. After securing […]
Preserving the Culture of Igloolik [anthology chapter review, part 2 of 3]
Traditions were really unimportant to the Inuit people of Igloolik before they encountered outsiders, according to Nancy Wachowich. One elder explained to the author, “we didn’t talk about traditions in the past. There were no other cultures here with us and we didn’t think about preserving anything because we were living it. It was all […]
Nubian Museum Celebrates History and Culture of Southern Egypt
“The loss of Nubia was one of the world’s great tragedies,” according to the Cairo magazine Al-Ahram, in an article this week about the Nubian Museum in Southern Egypt. The article describes how the museum, built near Aswan by the Egyptian government and opened in 1997, effectively depicts Nubian history and culture. The article reviews […]
