Floyd Kuptana in 2-D : An Analysis and Appreciation by Richard D. Mohr (+Discussion)

Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Inuit Art Society, October 27-29, Corning, New York Slides as pdf Text as pdf. Video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLa9OcWFhAc&t=2834s Richard Mohr, IAS member and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana, discussed the two-dimensional work by Floyd Kuptana (1964-2021). The presentation takes 42 minutes. followed by a discussion, Q&A with the audience. Richard D. Mohr is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published on Inuit art in Inuit Art Quarterly, Kolaj (Montreal), Above & Beyond (Canadian North), the Proceedings of the 2019 Inuit Studies Conference (Montreal), The Outsider (Chicago), and has frequently contributed articles to the Smithsonian’s annual Arctic Studies Center Newsletter, including “The Umiaks of Little Diomede”(2020). He explains: “We went to the Arctic for Nature but stayed for Culture.” The text of the presentation is available at Zenodo: LINK See also: "The Collages of Janet Kigusiuq : A Case Study in Inuit aesthetics" / with Richard D. Mohr Presentation at the Inuit Art Society 2024 Annual Meeting, August 16 & 17 in Traverse City, Michigan, United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdE0YQzpO4&t=646s "Floyd Kuptana and American Pop Culture" / with Richard D. Mohr The late, Arctic-born, Toronto-based Inuit artist Floyd Kuptana ― best known as a carver ― in his 2-D works, made several hunting and gathering forays deep into distinctively American pop culture. https://youtu.be/AX-wZCSEYQw?si=nm7kIy8ssciLGBDD "Floyd Kuptana Show-'n'-Tell" by Richard D. Mohr Talk by Richard D. Mohr about Floyd Kuptana. A five minute show-’n’-tell plus in-memorium for Floyd presented to the Inuit Art Society as a Zoom (June 13th 2021), two weeks after Floyd died. (May 27th 2021) • Floyd Kuptana Show-and-Tell, by Richa... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCarjekjHpk&t=138s “Good Friday with Floyd Kuptana” by Richard Mohr (on April, 10th 2020, Good Friday) • Good Friday with Floyd Kuptana / by R... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulmaADydG8I #projectfloydkuptana #floydkuptana #inuitart #artinuit #artthatisreal #snoopy #richarddmohr #prince #popculture #metlife #galleryarcturus #arcturus #vangogh #starrynight #shaman #sedna #GalleryArcturus #RobertWSwitzer #eronboyd #LouJungheim #ThaliaNicas