Inuit Art Society
Minneapolis Annual Meeting – October 9-11, 2015
“Off The Island”
(Exploring the Inuit and Art of the Kivalliq Region; Greenlandic Artist Jonas Faber)
Friday, October 9
4:00-6:00 Registration opens
6:30 p.m. Evening reception – cash bar, munchies; Marketplace open
7:15 – Welcome – IAS President Lou Jungheim
Canadian Consul General Jamshed Merchant
Introduction of guest artist and speakers
Jonas Faber, guest artist – remarks on a remarkable life
Saturday, October 10
8:00-9:00 Registration
8:30 Marketplace open
9:00 Opening Remarks and schedule (Planning Committee)
9:15 Ole Gjerstad – LIVES THAT MAKE ART: A Filmmaker’s
Perspective on the History of the People of Kivalliq
10:15 Break
10:30 Norman Zepp – Introduction to the Kivalliq (Keewatin) region
11:30 Jonas Faber – Norse& Inuit Mythologic themes in my art
12:30- 1:30 Box Lunch, mingle, Marketplace (Jonas Faber all afternoon)
1:30 Norman Zepp – Art of the Kivalliq region – Classic Minimalism
2:30 Michael Foor-Pessin – Finding a Way In: A Collector’s
Perspective on Art from the Kivalliq
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45 Jan Sivertson – Native Alaskan Dolls
4:30 IAS Annual Business Meeting
5:00 Marketplace closes
6:30 Social Hour (cash bar)
7:30 Annual Dinner
Sunday, October 11
8:30-Noon Marketplace
9:30 Norman Zepp , panel discussion – current art of the Kivalliq
region (Mike Foor-Pessin, Ole Gjerstad?)
10:30 Break
10:45 Jonas Faber – carving school and quarry in BC, World heritage
sites in Greenland?
11:30 Closing Remarks
After 1:30 Member house tours – O’Hara/Phillips & Carlsson