The Inuit Art Quarterly (IAQ) has been nominated for three National Media Awards for the 2026 cycle: one National Magazine Award in the category of Best Magazine: Art, Literary, and Culture, and two Digital Publishing Awards in the categories Best Feature Article and Best Arts & Culture Storytelling. If the IAQ wins in the Best Magazine: Art, Literary, and Culture category, it will then be in the running for the NMA’s Magazine Grand Prix which the IAQ won in 2022.
The 2025 Fall and Winter issues are nominated for Best Magazine:Art, Literary, and Culture. The Fall issue, Sovereignty, was guest edited by Project Director of The National Gallery of Greenland Nivi Christensen. It focuses on bold and powerful pieces by artists who are passionate about cultural and bodily sovereignty and political and land stewardship. The Winter 2025 issue, Memory, was guest edited by Alutiiq/Sugpiaq art historian Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi. The issue is a deep dive into the power of memory as inspiration, examining how memories are important in shaping Inuit art and how Inuit history is shared through oral storytelling and visual art.
Curator, researcher, and anthropologist Krista Ulujkuk Zawadski’s “The Narratives of the Hudson’s Bay Company in Inuit Art” is nominated for a Digital Publishing Award in the category Best Feature Article. In this piece, Zawadski looks at the connection between North America’s oldest corporation and Inuit life, art, and culture. “North of North Is Raw Inuit Storytelling” by filmmaker, writer, and actor Bronwyn Szabo is nominated for Best Arts & Culture Storytelling. Szabo offers a thoughtful review of the hit TV series North of North (2025–present) and includes an interview with creators Alethea Arnaquq-Baril and Stacey Aglok Macdonald and actor Anna Lambe.
This year marks the first year the IAQ has been nominated for Digital Publishing Awards and the sixth year that the IAQ has been nominated in the NMA category of Best Magazine: Art, Literary, and Culture for the National Magazine Awards. In 2022 the IAQ won in the category, winning the Magazine Grand Prix as well. The IAQ has previously been nominated in several other categories, including One of a Kind Storytelling, Best Editorial Package, and Cover Grand Prix.
The 2026 Digital Publishing Award winners will be announced at an awards luncheon on June 5, and the NMA winners will be announced at a gala that evening in Toronto, ON.
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 2025 editorial work. Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm, passion, and creativity in our pages. You inspire us every day.
Quyanainni, qujanamiik, nakurmiik, nakummek, quana, merci, thank you!