Imaq: Maritime Making in Inuit Art Histories

Imaq, the sea, has long gifted abundance to Inuit through the sacrifice of seals, whales, walruses, and other animal relatives. Offering sustenance, clothing, architecture, and technology, marine mammals animated all aspects of Inuit culture. This lecture by Bart Pushaw, assistant professor of art history at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, examines how artists in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) registered shifting relations with the sea and marine animals as the onset of colonialism in the 18th century entangled Kalaallit Inuit with the wider Atlantic world.