Alootook Ipellie: Walking Both Sides of an Invisible Border

Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) OTTAWA, ON

A journalist, political cartoonist, editor, graphic designer and poet, Alootook Ipellie (1951–2007) left behind a veritable treasure trove of works when, sadly, he passed away. Starting in Ottawa, ON, this first retrospective of the artist will travel to the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, the Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit, NU, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg throughout 2019 and 2020. The exhibition was jointly curated by Sandra Dyck, Director of Carleton University Art Gallery,

Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Assistant Professor of Art History at Concordia University, and Christine Lalonde, Associate Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Here, Dyck discusses the project: