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Short Curriculum Vitae Dr. Norman D. Vorano

Contact Information Assistant Professor and Queen’s National Scholar Department of Art History and Art Conservation And Curator of Indigenous Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre Ontario Hall, 306 B 67 University Avenue Queen’s University Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6 !: (613)533 6000 x 77350 Email: [email protected]

Career Summary • Interdisciplinary scholar, teacher and curator. Primary specialization in North American Indigenous arts, with extensive Arctic fieldwork and administrative experience. Other areas: museum studies, global modernisms, Native American historic arts, and visual studies.

• Courses Offered: Native North American Arts Introduction (and area studies), Arctic Arts, Decolonizing the Museum, Consuming Culture, Materials, Meaning: Research Methodologies of Historic Indigenous Arts, Contemporary Curatorial Work, Writing Art.

• Museum work: strategic acquisitions of important historic and contemporary Native American arts, artifacts and archival fonds at national museum level; developed research strategies, exhibitions, and protocols to share collections, disseminate information in accordance with ICOM and UNESCO protocol.

Current Projects Drawing from the Past: Picturing Inuit Modernity in the North Baffin Region, 1964. A multi- sited exhibition and research project partnering with Piqqusilirivvik Inuit Cultural Learning Facility, Clyde River, and the Canadian Museum of History. Grant awarded from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage. See: http://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/grant-will-make-inuit-art-exhibition- reality?utm_source=e-queens-gazette_faculty

Multiple Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Artistic Modernisms in Global Perspective. Team member of comparative research project to document and analyze the diverse lives of modernism across the globe, previously excluded from standard histories of modernism. See: http://multiplemodernisms.org/

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Current Position 2014 – Assistant Professor in Art History and Queen’s National Scholar, with a cross appointment to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, as Curator, Indigenous Art.

• Conceptualize and execute major research projects on North American Indigenous art and visual culture, including topics in Indigenous museology, theoretical and methodological understandings of Indigenous art and visual culture, resulting in scholarly publications, exhibitions, and public programming. • Teach undergraduate and graduate courses; supervise graduate students, university administrative work. • Conceptualize and build collections of Indigenous art, contribute to policy development on Indigenous art/access at the gallery, and contribute to public programming at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre.

2008 – Adjunct Research Professor, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa • Graduate student advising and co-advising, intern supervision at Museum • Develop upper-year undergraduate courses, run classes and give seminars Contact: Mitchell Frank, Assistant Director, Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Room 4205 St. Patrick's Building Carleton University Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6 !: 613-520-2600 x. 6045

Education Ph.D. 2007 University of Rochester, Program in Visual and Cultural Studies Dissertation: Inuit Art in the Qallunaat World: Modernism, Museums and the Popular Imaginary, 1949 – 1962 (Advisor: Janet C. Berlo; Committee: Robert Foster and Douglas Crimp.)

M.A. 2003 University of Rochester, Visual and Cultural Studies.

M.A. 1999 York University, Canada, Art History. Major Research Paper: Psychoanalytic concepts of repetition and desire in contemporary interdisciplinary art.

B.F.A. 1997 York University, Canada, Visual Arts (Honors, with distinction) Specialization: interdisciplinary visual art (studio)

Publications

Scholarly Books/Catalogues

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2011 Inuit Prints, Japanese Inspiration: Early Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic [published in French as Estampes Inuites…Inspiration Japonaise: Les Débuts de la gravure dans l’Arctique canadien], Gatineau, PQ: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2011.

[In progress] Inuit Art in the Qallunaat World: Inventing Modern Aboriginal Art in Canada.

Dissertation 2007 Inuit Art in the Qallunaat World: Modernism, Museums and the Popular Imaginary, 1949 – 1962, Ph.D. dissertation, Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Peer-reviewed Essays, Chapters, and Catalogue Entries Forthcoming 2016 “Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans: Making ‘Local’ Prints in Global Modernity,” in Mapping Modernisms: Indigenous and Colonial Networks of Artistic Exchange, Edited by Ruth Phillips and Elizabeth Harney, Duke University Press.

2014 “Rock, Paper, Scissors: Canadian Inuit Art in the Cold War,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 4, (December): 22-23

2013 Four chapters (as described below) in History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000, edited by Pat Kirkham, New York, NY: The Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press. • “1400-1600, Chapter 6, The Americas, Indigenous America: North,” pp. 117-124. • “1600-1750, Chapter 12, The Americas, Indigenous America: North,”pp. 269-275 • “1750-1900, Chapter 18, The Americas, Indigenous America: North,” pp. 437-444. • “1900-2000, Chapter 23, The Americas, Indigenous America: North,” pp. 567-574.

2012 “The Globalization of Inuit Art from 1953 to 1960,” in Creation & Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art, Toronto, ON: Douglas & McIntyre/Winnipeg Art Gallery, 49-57.

2011 Catalogue entries: “Thule Culture, Hunting Scene on Walrus Ivory, 1100-1600,” and “Inuit Ivory Tree, ca. 1900,” in Art Québécois et Canadien, La Collection du Musée Des Beaux-arts de Montréal, Tome 1, Edited by Jacques des Rochers, Montréal, QC: Musée Des Beaux-arts Montréal, 38, 39.

2010 “The Powers of Ivory,” in Art of the American Indians: the Thaw Collection, edited by Eva Fognell, Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 146-153.

2009 “Art and Cold Cash: Business as Unusual,” in Art and Cold Cash, edited by the Art and Cold Cash Collective (Ruby Arngna’naaq, Jack Butler, Sheila Butler, Patrick Mahon and William Noah), Toronto, ON: YYZ Press, 31-39.

2009 “Joseph Pootoogook – Southwest Baffin Island Woman,” Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit Art from the Carleton University Art Gallery Collection, Sandra Dyck, editor. Montreal, QC: ABC Art Books Canada, 108 – 109.

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2008 “Inuit Men, Erotic Art: Certain Indecencies … That Need Not Here Be Mentioned,” in Me Sexy, edited by Drew Hayden Taylor, Toronto, ON: Douglas and McIntyre, 124 – 149.

[Excerpted and republished in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall, 2008: 18 – 29.]

2008 “Focus On: Jamasie Pitseolak—Coming from Today,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring, 10 - 16.

2006 with Janet C. Berlo, “A Dialogue between Native Arts Studies Professor Janet Catherine Berlo and Canadian Museum of Civilization Inuit Art Curator Norman Vorano,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall, 18 – 27.

2006 “Marketing Inuit Art: Notes from the Nunavut Arts Festival in Iqaluit, September 2-9,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1, spring, 21 – 25.

2004 “Creators: Negotiating the Art World for Over 50 Years,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter, 9 – 17.

Book/Exhibition Reviews 2011 Book Review: “Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter, 22-33.

2008 Book Review: “The Harry Winrob Collection of Inuit Sculpture,” in Inuit Studies/Études Inuit, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2008 [published in 2009], 198-200.

2008 Book Review: “Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960,” in The New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 83, No. 2, Spring, 276 – 277.

2008 Book Review: “Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective—Fifty Years of Printmaking at the Kinngait Studios,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, Spring, 36 – 39.

2007 Book Review: “Early Masters: Inuit Art 1949-1955,” American Indian Arts Magazine, Vol. 32, No. 4, Autumn, 112, 113, 120.

2005 Book Review: “Cape Dorset Sculpture,” in the Portland Museum of Art Bulletin, summer, n.p.

2004 Exhibition Review: “The Inuit Way in Canada’s Arctic and Arches and Awnings: Architecture in the Arctic,” in Inuit Art Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 2, summer, 26 – 31.

2002 Book Review: “Uncommon Legacies: Native North American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum,” in the Portland Museum of Art Bulletin, fall, n.p.

Other Publications (not reviewed) 2008 “Contemporary Inuit Art,” essay (1700 words) written for online kiosk in the Marshall McLuhan Salon, Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany.

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2008 “Inuit in Canada,” essay (1700 words) written for an online kiosk in the Marshall McLuhan Salon, Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany.

2006 “Carving Out a Place in the World: Inuit Art of Canada,” Native Peoples Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 3, May/June: 26 – 31.

Teaching

University Teaching 2015 f ARTH 248: Introduction to Indigenous Art of North America, Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Kingston.

2015 w ARTH 864: Indigenous Modernism(s) in North America: Re-mapping Twentieth Century (graduate seminar), Art History, Queen’s University, Kingston.

2014 f ARTH 301: Arts of the Arctic, Art History and Art Conservation, Queen’s University, Kingston.

2007 w ARTH 4005: Consuming Culture. Department of Art History, Carleton University

2005 f Traditions and Transformations of Native North American Visual Cultures. Dept. of Art History, Concordia University, Montréal

2005 w Native North American Visual Cultures: Traditions and Transformations. Dept. of Art History, Concordia University, Montréal

2003 Writing on Art, (co-taught with Professor Janet C. Berlo), Dept. of Art History, University of Rochester

2002 Critical Art History in the Twentieth-Century - II. The College Writing Program, University of Rochester

2001 Critical Art History in the Twentieth-Century - I, The College Writing Program, University of Rochester.

Public Presentations (last 5 years)

Scholarly Presentations 2015 “Scripting Inuit Modernism In The Living Stone.” Session chair (with Ruth Phillips) and presenter in the panel, ““The ‘Modern’ and the ‘Modernist’ in Native North American Art,” Part I: “Negotiating Modernism(s) in the Arctic and Northwest Coast – Case Studies,” at the Native American Art Studies Association Conference, October 1, 2015.

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2014 “Back to the Future: Terry Ryan in Cape Dorset,” in the conference, Indigenous Modernisms: Histories of the Contemporary, held at Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand, December 12, 2014.

2013 “Shamans, Showmen, Artists and Anthros: Entangled in Qingailisaq’s Coat,” at the Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 18.

2012 “Quiet Complications: Inuit Maleness and the work of Jamasie Pitseolak,” Session chair and presenter in panel, “Contemporary Issues in Inuit Art,” at the 18th Inuit Studies Conference, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, October 25.

2012 “Our (foot)prints are everywhere: Houston, Hiratsuka, and Pootoogook, and the politics of mobility in early Inuit art,” in Mapping Modernisms Symposium, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, May 10.

2011 Clark-Mellon Invited Colloquium on “Global Indigenous Modernisms: Primitivism, Artists, Mentors,” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, April 6-7, 2011. Colloquium presentation on research project: “Indigenous Modernism - Cape Dorset Graphics Studio.”

Public Presentations/Roundtables (last 5 years) 2015 “Inuit Art and the Ideological Imbroglio of Canada’s Cold War Cultural Nationalism,” Keynote Lecture, Graduate Visual Culture Association Conference, January 20, 2015.

2013 “Cape Dorset Cosmopolitans,” University of Colorado at Boulder, March 13, 2014.

2011 “Inuit Prints, Japanese Inspiration,” public presentation at ArtEast Grow With Art, Orléans, Ontario, September 27, 2011.

2011 “Whose Art is it Anyway? Negotiating Curation and Consumption of Inuit Art” Invited panel discussant featuring Inuit artists, senior curators and scholars, including Nancy Campbell, Jack Butler, Dr. David Turner. University of Toronto Arts Centre, Thursday, April 5, 2011.

2010 “The Back Story: Inuit Prints at the Canadian Museum of Civilization – an Ongoing Legacy,” invited lecture for members of the Art Libraries Society of North America, ARLIS annual meeting, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, Ottawa, Friday, November 12, 2010.

2010 “The Influence of Japanese Prints on Inuit Prints,” presentation to members of the Canada-Japan Society of Ottawa, April 21, 2010.

Museum/Curatorial Work (last 5 years)

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Major Research Projects & Exhibitions

Traveling Exhibition and Catalogue: Inuit Prints, Japanese Inspiration – Early Printmaking in the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Museum of Civilization (with Ming Tiampo and Asato Ikeda) • Multi-sited research project generated important donations to the Museum and resulted in a 2000 square foot international touring exhibition (produced in 4 languages) and a 15,000 word scholarly catalogue in English and French. • First systematic investigation of the influence of Japanese prints upon Inuit printmaking. • Research in Cape Dorset, Ottawa, Tokyo, Connecticut with international collaborators including Professor Ming Tiampo (Carleton University), Asato Ikeda (UBC), Kananginak Pootoogook (Cape Dorset) and the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative (Cape Dorset and Toronto). My duties included:

Administrative: Development of a joint ten-year Research Strategy for the Canadian Museum of History (Civilization) and Canadian War Museum, 2012-2013 • One of the principal contributors to the first joint Research Strategy for two national museums, reporting directly to the Vice President and Director of Research. • Initiated and led a series of internal consultations involving the Museum’s five research branches, followed by internal discussions with members of the Museum service branches. • From November 2012 to January 2013, our led round-table discussions with scholars, museum professionals and other invitees in 16 Canadian cities. Strategy available at following link: http://www.civilization.ca/research-and-collections/files/2013/07/research-strategy.pdf

Web: Canada Culture Online (CCO)—Cape Dorset Prints at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2010 • Initiated a successful application for a CCO grant through the Department of Canadian Heritage to digitize the CMC’s collection of 3000 Cape Dorset prints. • Creation of project concept, liaising internally with CCO project manager, archives staff, registration and artifact documentation and IT to develop project. • Research and writing all website texts, working with contracted web designers to develop and approve web designs. • Negotiation of comprehensive copyright license with Dorset Fine Arts to make prints available online. Web Address: http://www.historymuseum.ca/capedorsetprints/introduction/