Organizer: Nuuk Art Museum
Time: Tuesday, Jun 28, 2022 – 3:30 PM MST
Nivi Christensen
Since 2015, Nivi Christensen has been the Director of Nuuk Art Museum in Greenland/ Kalaallit Nunaat. Christensen is an Inuk from Greenland and holds a Masters in Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and is a part of the research project ‘The Art of Nordic Colonialism – Writing Transcultural Art Histories’. She is an expert on Art from Greenland and Greenlandic Art institutions, and has curated numerous exhibitions and written various articles on the issues, both locally and abroad. Christensen has since childhood been engaged with the Greenlandic art society. She is still the director of Nuuk Art Museum – formerly a private gallery, it now stands as the largest of only two art museums in Greenland. Greenland does not have a national gallery, but Christensen has been engaged in the ongoing process of establishing one, and has taken a lead in the process of securing art for a national gallery.
Steven Loft (CA)
Laura Lennert (GL)
Anni-Kristiina Juuso (Finland)
Candice Hopkins (Yukon)
Steven Loft is Kanien’kehá:ka (also known as Mohawk), turtle clan of the Six Nations of the Grand River, also with Jewish heritage. He has recently been named the inaugural Vice President, Indigenous Ways and Decolonization at the National Gallery of Canada. Previous to this, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Indigenous Arts and Culture and formerly Director of the Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples program with the Canada Council for the Arts. A curator, scholar, writer and media artist, in 2010 he was named Trudeau National Visiting Fellow at Ryerson University in Toronto. Loft has also held positions as Curator-In-Residence, Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Director/Curator of the Urban Shaman Gallery (Winnipeg); Aboriginal Curator at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Producer and Artistic Director of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers’ Association (Hamilton). He has curated group and solo exhibitions across Canada and internationally; written extensively for magazines, catalogues and arts publications and lectured widely in Canada and internationally. Loft co-edited the books Transference, Technology, Tradition: Aboriginal Media and New Media Art (Banff Centre Press, 2005) and Coded Territories: Indigenous Pathways in New Media (University of Calgary Press, 2014).
Laura Lennert Jensen (b. 1996) is currently a master’s student at Ilisimatusarfik – University of Greenland, pursuing a degree in Cultural & Social History. Besides this, Laura is a musician and singer, and also co-wrote Berda Larsen’s short film Tuullik (2021) which received the Audience Award for Best Film at LGBTQ+ Toronto Film Festival in 2022. Since 2017, she has also been part of the board and one of festival organizers behind the annual volunteer-driven music festival Arctic Sounds in Sisimiut.
Anni-Kristiina Juuso ( Ánneristen Juuso in mother tongue Northern Sámi) is reindeer herding Indigenous Sámi, Actress,Lawyer Trained on the Bench, Ph.D. in law Candidate living in northernmost Sweden and northwestern Finland in Karesuando area, in the Heart of Sápmi. Besides acting as her Number One Career, as a Lawyer she concentrates in Indigenous and a human Rights Law.
We, the hosts and organizers of Arctic Arts Summit 2022, recognize and respect the many languages of the circumpolar region. The core information on this site is presented in English and French, Canada’s two official languages, as well as in Inuktut, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in the North of Canada, and Southern Tutchone, one of the many First Nation languages in Yukon and the language of the nations on whose territory the in-person Summit will be hosted. The discursive and artistic content on this platform will be available in the language in which it was submitted and/or created.
We acknowledge the predominance of English on the site. This is, in part, a reflection of the use of English as a widely understood language throughout the circumpolar region today. We will, however, encourage and actively seek to include content that reflects the many languages of the North.
View in French | View in Inuktut | View in Southern Tutchone
The hosts and organizers of Arctic Arts Summit 2022 acknowledge and affirm the Articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and recognize the inherent rights and historical territories of Indigenous peoples across the North and around the world. We recognize and respect the First peoples of the many lands of the circumpolar region.
Connection to land, territories, histories, and cultures are fundamental to our sense of who we are as peoples and societies. We honour this connection and commit to our shared journey of conciliation as we work to build an equitable, sustainable, just, and collaborative future for all.
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