The 2025 Cape Dorset Print Collection Has Been Released
The 66th annual Cape Dorset Print Collection release was announced on September 16. This year’s collection features 33 works by 15 artists, including Ningiukulu Teevee, Qavavau Manumie, Saimaiyu Akesuk and Shuvinai Ashoona, RCA. Since 1959, Kinngait Studios in Kinngait, NU, has released annual collections of stonecuts, lithographs, etchings and aquatints.The works from this year’s collection will be available for purchase on October 18.
Tanya Tagaq and Cee Pootoogook’s Children's Book is Shortlisted for $20,000 prize
The children’s book It Bears Repeating (2024), written by Tanya Tagaq and illustrated by Cee Pootoogook, has been shortlisted for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award with the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCB). The book is for children aged three to seven and teaches them to count from one to ten in Inuktitut and English using polar bears. The Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award is in its twentieth year and honours excellence in illustrated picture book format by Canadian writers and illustrators. The prize is $20,000. The winner will be announced on October 27.
Deantha Edmunds is Nominated for Three MusicNL Awards
Classical soprano Deantha Edmunds has been nominated for three MusicNL Awards this year: Classical Artist of the Year, Indigenous Artist of the Year and Album of the Year. Earlier this year, Edmunds won a Juno Award in the Classical Soprano category for her composition “Angmalukisaa” (2024). Winners of the MusicNL Awards will be announced in November in St. John’s, NL.
Susan Aglukark Releases Memoir
On September 2, Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark, OC, released her memoir titled Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing, which is co-written with CBC Music associate producer and pop culture writer Andrea Warner. The memoir follows Aglukark’s life from childhood in Arviat to the development of her impressive musical career. It also reflects on intergenerational trauma and healing. Aglukark’s book tour started in Toronto, ON, earlier this month, then went to Ottawa, ON, Calgary, AB, and Vancouver, BC. Aglukark has released several albums over her career and founded the Arctic Rose Foundation, an organization that supports arts-based programs for Indigenous youth, in 2012.
Art + Waste in Panniqtuuq Exhibition on View at the Peterborough Art Gallery
On July 26, the travelling exhibition Art + Waste in Panniqtuuq opened at the Art Gallery of Peterborough. The exhibition focuses on bringing awareness to the urgent waste crisis in Panniqtuuq, NU. It features Inuit artists Madeleine Aasivak Qumuatuq, Jupa Ishulutak, Kawtysie Kakee, Annie Kilabuk, David Kilabuk, Talia Metuq, Oleepika Nashalik and Malaya Pitsiulak, along with settler artist Micky Renders. Art + Waste in Panniqtuuq presents works that aim to open dialogue and support for Inuit sovereignty, self-determination and the right to a healthy and safe environment. This exhibition was first shown in 2023 at the Queen’s University Art and Media Lab. The 2025 iteration includes artist talks and workshops that will take place from October 1 to 5 and will culminate in a closing reception on October 5.
Circumpolar Artists to be Featured at the Luleåbiennalen (The Luleå Biennial)
South Sámi artist Carola Grahn will participate in the Luleåbiennalen, Scandinavia’s oldest art biennial, in 2027. This edition of the Luleåbiennalen will consist of public gatherings and talks between 2025 and 2027, and exhibitions in several locations between March 3–May 30, 2027. The guiding ideas of the biennial are about imagining futures in the North and the ways culture can be part of that future. Grahn’s work combines photography, text, sculpture and sound and often questions structures of power, politics and identity. She will work alongside other Indigenous artists, New Red Order, Lea Simma and Wolf Babe Collective to organize this edition of the biennial. The first public event will take place in Luleå, Sweden, at the end of 2025.