Join us for an exciting afternoon of programs with visiting artist Niap Saunders, who is an Artist in Residence at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.
Niap is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has been collected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec and Avataq Cultural Institute in Westmount, QC, among others. Based in Montreal, QC, the artist divides her time between the city and her home community of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, QC—a place that continues to deeply influence her work.
Her practice shifts between carving, textiles, paintings, photography, and more. Through each medium, she explores and investigates her identity as an Inuk woman. “I have been learning more about and finding this new pride in my culture,” she explains, “which has allowed me to create depth in my work.” Niap is an advocate for her community and culture. As a teenager, she walked from Duncan, BC, to Ottawa, ON, to raise awareness for Indigenous youth suicide prevention. Also a throat singer, she has performed at several public events, including a 2014 ceremony in Quebec that recognized throat singing as a form of intangible heritage under the Cultural Heritage Act. In 2019, her first solo exhibition, Ivalu, was held at Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto, ON, and focused on traditional tattooing practices.
All of these activities are free and open to the public. This program is co-organized by the IU First Nations Educational and Cultural Center and the Eskenazi Museum of Art, with support from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art.
1–2 p.m. Artist Talk and Q&A Discussion, Martin Commons, second floor
2–4 p.m. Roehm Family Art-making Studio programming, printmaking and carving
This program is part of an ongoing series. Find more information about additional events on our calendar:
https://events.iu.edu/artmuseum/
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