The Inuit Art Quarterly (IAQ)has won in three categories of this year’s Indigenous Media Awards (IMA): Best Layout, Best International Indigenous Coverage and General Excellence. Presented by the Indigenous Journalists Association, the IMAs are the only awards dedicated to highlighting Indigenous journalism in Canada, the United States and internationally.

The IAQ won first place in the General Excellence category for all four print issues in the 2024 editorial calendar: the Tarriaq issue (Spring), which focused on Inuit behind and on camera, was guest edited by IAF Board President Dr. Heather Igloliorte and filmmaker and teacher Jason Fox; Activism & Access (Summer) was edited by IAQ Tauttunnguaqti Napatsi Folger; Arctic Indigenous Futurisms (Fall) was guest edited by Sámi scholar and duojár Dr. Liisa-Rávndná/Liisa-Rávná Finbog; and Inuvialuit (Winter), which celebrated the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, was guest edited by IAF Board Vice President Reneltta Arluk. Art Director Maegan Fidelino took home the prize for Best Layout for the spring, summer and fall issues of the IAQ. 

Beyond editorial awards, the IMAs also singled out two IAQ writers for awards. Kira Lennert Olsen’s review of Kalaallit photographer Inuuteq Storch’s exhibition, Kalaallit Nunaat on the World Stage: Inuuteq Storch’s Exhibition at the 60th Venice Biennale won first place in the Best International Indigenous Coverage category. Irene Snarby’s piece Losing Our History, from the fall 2024 print issue of the IAQ guest edited by Dr. Liisa-Rávndná/Liisa-Rávná Finbog, won second place in this category. Snarby’s story looks at the Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat (SVD), the Sámi Museum in Kárášjohka, (Karasjok), Sápmi, Norway, and how the artistic and cultural activism of the past can inform the future of culture. 

This has been an exciting awards season for the IAQ, as the magazine received two nominations for the 2025 National Magazine Awards: Best Magazine: Art, Literary, and Culture and One of a Kind Storytelling. 

Thank you to our loyal community of readers and donors for your support of Inuit art as well as our funders; Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, the Canada Council for Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and Ontario Creates, all of whom make the IAQ possible.

On behalf of the IAQ team, the Inuit Art Foundation staff and board of directors, we would like to acknowledge and congratulate all the guest editors, writers and artists who contributed to our 2024 editorial calendar. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, passion and creativity in our pages. You inspire us everyday.

Quyanainni, qujanamiik, nakurmiik, nakummek, quana, merci, thank you!