Background
Burch, Judith Varney was born on September 16, 1937 in Kewanee, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harley Roosevelt and Elsie (Pendleton) Varney.
Burch, Judith Varney was born on September 16, 1937 in Kewanee, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Harley Roosevelt and Elsie (Pendleton) Varney.
Bachelor, Duke University, 1958.
Docent emeritus Virginia Museum Fine Art, Richmond, 1978-1993. Owner Arcic Inuit Art, since 1985, Kingsburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, since 1998. Curator, lecturer in field.
Leader Inuit Studies Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1996, Nuuk, Greenland, 1998. Curator Inuit exhibitions at Canada Embassy, Washington, since 1987. Judge Kivalliq Arts Festival, Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories, Canada, commissioned consultant Canada Arctic Producers (the Arctic art co-op), 1995.
Chairman Nunavut workshop for American Association for Canada Studies, Minneapolis, 1997. Led workshops on Inuit art, Newfoundland and Igaluit, Baffin Island, 1999, speaker on Inuit art, Smithsonian for Celebration—Nunavut, 1999, created international exhibition Inuit Art, American Association Canada Studies, Pittsburgh, 1999.
Married Dana DeWitt Burch, Junior, December 30, 1961. Children: Dana DeWitt III, Jennifer Burch Madden, Palmer Varney.