Inuit Traditions Within a Changing Environment
Climate change is a pressing and much-debated phenomenon of our time. The
Hood Museum of art addresses this global debate in Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions
within a Changing Environment. The exhibition is part of International Polar Year and explores the human
dimensions of climate change in the Inuit concept and perception of the Arctic
climate as part of their culture. Objects from the Hood's permanent
collection—boat miniatures, harpoons, masks, clothing, prints, and canoes,
along with photographs—that are essential to Inuit society are integrated into
a story on the effects of climate change.
This Inuit walrus mask from Nunivak Island from the Hood's permanent
collections is part of a new exhibition that opens Jan. 27. (Photo courtesy
Hood Museum of Art)
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Aqqaluk Lynge, president of the Inuit Circumpolar
Council (ICC), Greenland, and ICC vice-chair for Greenland, will deliver
the opening lecture, "Whose Climate is Changing?" on Wednesday, Jan.
31 at 5:30 p.m. in the Loew Auditorium. A reception will follow in Kim Gallery.
The exhibition is open from Jan. 27 through May 13 and is curated by A. Nicole
Stuckenberger, Stefansson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dickey Center for
International Understanding's Institute of Arctic Studies.
Funding is provided by the Ray Winfield Smith 1918 Fund, and the Leon C. 1927,
Charles L. 1955, and Andrew J. 1984 Greenebaum Fund.
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