Portraiture and Other Discarded Themes by Amy Karlinsky

Amy Karlinsky is an art critic, editor, educator and curator who has taught theory and criticism, writing and Canadian art at universities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia. As an independent curator, she has produced shows for public and private galleries, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gallery 111 and St. John’s College. As an art critic, she has contributed regularly to the Winnipeg Free Press and Border Crossings, and she has published over 100 essays and articles for Canadian Art, C Magazine, Blackflash, Etudes Inuit Studies, Urban Shaman Gallery, Martha Street Studio, La Maison des artistes and more. She has taught at Baker Lake, Tec Voc and Villa Rosa, and she has contributed to the Manitoba arts curriculum. She is the former director of the Nunnatta Sunaquatngirt Museum in Iqaluit. Her interests are in innovation and creativity, theory and narrative structures, psychology, interpretation and collaboration.