NADIA KURD ARTIST/CURATOR TALK

Event Date: 
Friday, November 18, 2022 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm EST
Event Location: 
Zoom
Event Contact Name: 
Jennifer Howie
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Lakehead University, Department of Visual Arts Lecture Series 2022.
Dr. Nadia Kurd artist/curator talk
Friday Nov, 18th at 2:30 p.m. on zoom
"Curating a Sense of Place: Reflections on Art and Community"

Nadia Kurd is a curator and art historian with a PhD from McGill University. She has special interests in arts advocacy, contemporary Islamic art and architecture as well as Indigenous visual culture from North America. In addition to working at diverse arts organizations such as the Ontario Association of Art Galleries and the Prison Arts Foundation, Nadia was the Curator of the Thunder Bay Art Gallery from 2010-18, where her focus was on community engagement and emerging artists in Northwestern Ontario. In recognition of her work, she was awarded the Northwestern Ontario Visionary Award in 2014 and CCMW’s Women Who Inspire Award in 2016. She was the recipient of the 2017 Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art Fellowship and the 2018 Arts-Writer in Residence at the Banff International Curatorial Institute. Doctor Kurd is currently the Curator of the University of Alberta Museums Art Collection.


Talk is scheduled on Friday November 18th at 2:30 p.m. on Zoom.

https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/93885972160?pwd=WHVWWDhxcG1zV0xYbmxTNm1rUDBK...
Meeting ID: 938 8597 2160
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