New chair at UVic awarded $8M for Indigenous art practices – Times Colonist

Nov. 17, 2023

Heather Igloliorte will train and mentor Indigenous and other equity-deserving post-secondary students in the areas of in decolonial and transformational Indigenous art practices at UVic.

Newfoundland’s Heather Igloliorte was named the inaugural Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Victoria on Thursday as the federal government announced $248 million in funding for research programs at Canadian universities.

Igloliorte was one of 34 research chairs at 18 post-secondary schools named to new positions during a press conference in Vancouver. The decorated Inuk and Nunatsiavut art historian and curator receives $8 million in funding over an eight-year period to train and mentor Indigenous and other equity-deserving post-secondary students in the areas of decolonial and transformational Indigenous art practices at UVic.

“The arts have the power to challenge the historical narrative of Canada’s colonial ‘truth’ as told—and hidden—by museums, galleries, educational institutions and public spaces,” Igloliorte said in a statement.

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