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Curator to discuss links to Arctic printmaking

IT might sound unlikely, but Japanese printmaking had an important influence on printmaking in the Canadian Arctic.

Norman Vorano, curator of contemporary Inuit art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, will give a talk on the cross-cultural link at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on May 30 at 12:10 p.m.

Vorano is the curator of Inuit Prints: Japanese Inspiration, a touring exhibition on view at the WAG until Aug. 26.

The show traces the story of how, in 1959, Canadian artist James Houston travelled to Japan to study woodcut printmaking with a Japanese master. Houston introduced the small community of Cape Dorset on South Baffin Island to printmaking as a potential source of income, and he shared the Asian techniques with Inuit artists.

"Our exhibition presents not only some of the first Inuit prints ever made, but the actual Japanese prints that were brought to the Arctic in 1959 after Houston returned to Canada," Vorano said in a news release.

Vorano's talk is included with regular gallery admission.

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 19, 2012 G2

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