Double Vision: Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk

The Textile Museum of Canada and Toronto Biennial of Art present the exhibition
Double Vision: Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk
February 16 to August 14, 2022

The Textile Museum of Canada (the Museum) and Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) announce their partnership in the presentation and tour of the exhibition Double Vision: Jessie Oonark, Janet Kigusiuq, and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk. Curated by Candice Hopkins, Senior Curator at the Toronto Biennial of Art, the exhibition will be on view at the Textile Museum February 16 – August 14, 2022.

Double Vision will debut at the Museum as a key component of the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art (March 26 – June 5, 2022). The Museum will partner with TBA to provide free and accessible arts programming across Toronto and surrounding areas during the presentation.

“We are thrilled to launch our 2022 programming with such a significant partnership,” said Emma Quin, the Textile Museum’s Director and CEO. Double Vision builds on years of Museum exhibitions and partnerships that have focussed on textiles that reveal deep Indigenous histories while sharing stories of the people who continue to shape textile practices today.”

Double Vision profiles three ground-breaking artists from Nunavut—Jessie Oonark (1906 – 1985) and her daughters, Janet Kigusiuq (1926 – 2005) and Victoria Mamnguqsualuk (1930 – 2016)—and shines a light on a highly distinctive art form called nivingajuliat that developed out of government-sponsored craft programs in the Arctic, beginning with the sewing program in Qamani`tuaq (Baker Lake) established in the 1960s.

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