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  • SimigakNeevieMoonShapedSealskinEarrings

    10 Inuit Sealskin Designers to Watch

    Eat seal, wear seal!
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    100 Unidentified Embroideries

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    The Inuvialuk painter shares some of the memories and inspiration behind their favourite artworks.
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    Inuit Art Foundation partners with OCAD to bring Inuit art to Onsite Gallery.
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    Recognition for the Inuit graphic artist from Kinngait, NU, in the international art exhibition.
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    Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara and Anders Sunna at the 2022 Venice Biennale.
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    What was it Like to Work on a Virtual Exhibition in Lockdown?

    Interviewing Prim about her COVID artwork.
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    Jennie William’s “Nalujuk Night” and Zacharias Kunuk’s “Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman’s Apprentice” take home awards.
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    We posted an image a week for the last five weeks and asked for your favourite comical captions.
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    Take a closer look at how artists bring the iconic sealskin owl doll to life.
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    Kablusiak Subverts Inuit Art With Camp and Silliness

    How Kablusiak dismantles the way we are pushed to perceive Inuit art.
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    Looee Arreak and Deantha Edmunds nominated for classical performance; Susan Aglukark to receive humanitarian award.
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    It’s a Family Affair!

    Goota Ashoona’s new exhibit celebrates the Ashoona family’s artistic legacy.
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    Nyla Innuksuk on her New Film “Slash/Back”

    Director takes us behind-the-scenes for a look at the movie in the making.
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    Visual artist receives Artistic Achievement Award for decades spent creating Inuit art.
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    Because you can never have enough jewellery.
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    The impact and legacy of Arctic Co-operatives Limited
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    Four Inuit up for awards at the 2022 Canadian Screen Awards.
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    Polar Bears in Print

    Totally polar-izing? Find out how Inuit artists have used prints to depict the arctic's apex predator.
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    What DO Inuit Use Their Ulus For?

    Jamesie Fournier’s humorous short story recounts an instance where cultural change got lost in translation.
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    A Glimpse of Arctic Life Superimposed onto Toronto's Urban Environment

    A Q&A with Inuit artist Maureen Gruben on her exhibition Moving with joy.
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    Victoria Kakuktinniq’s Designs Dazzle on the Cover of Elle Magazine

    How one Inuk designer is turning heads.
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    Your Love Song Playlist: 10 Amorous Inuit Tunes

    Celebrate Valentine’s day with a host of love-themed Inuit musical numbers!
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    7 Romantic Inuit Artworks for Valentine’s Day

    All of the hearts, flowers and candy to make your heart skip a beat.
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    Gallerist Pat Feheley on 50 Years of Nurturing Inuit Artists

    This year’s Order of Canada recipient on the artist relationships she spent her life developing.
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    How One Drawing Speaks to the Next Generation of Inuit

    Kerry Goodfellow dives into the story behind Ningiukulu Teevee’s drawing
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    Celebrated graphic artist appears in the fair’s central exhibition.
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    5 Superb Sled Dog Portraits

    The top dogs of Inuit art.
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    Carving a Brighter Future with Kenojuak Ashevak

    Bob Rae discusses the impact of Ashevak’s legacy
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    How Inuit Embrace Both Light and Dark

    Tiffany Ayalik analyzes the symbolic meaning behind Gary Kalluk’s sculpture.
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    How 10 Inuit Artists Came Together to Weave an Olympic Tapestry

    Behind the scenes at the Pangnirtung Tapestry Studio in preparation for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
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    Connecting to the Arctic through Kiakshuk’s Art

    Zaib Shaikh reflects on the many connections formed through one artwork
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    The Story Behind the Silla and Rise Song “Tulukkat”

    Charlotte Qamaniq shares the personal inspiration behind the band’s new track.
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    Looking to the future with a brand new shade: Very Peri.
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    Capturing the Bond Between Inuit and Caribou

    Luke Anguhadluq blends his skills in hunting and visual art.
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    Melodie Sammurtok-Lavallée reflects on Inuit identity, history and aesthetics through the process of creating.
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    IAQ editors pick their most-anticipated exhibitions, festivals, music and books.
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    The stories you loved, all wrapped up in a bow.
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    Jeannette Menzies unpacks the innovative work of one emerging artist.
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    Taking Control of Inuit Stories Through Printmaking

    Janice Grey delves into the emotions and memories within Leah Qumaaluk’s playful print.
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    The Inuk scholar and curator from Nunatsiavut was recognized for her contributions to the arts.
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    André François Giroux shows what one print can teach us about our shared connections.
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    Holly Andersen explains what Qabaroak Qatsiya’s two men are discussing.
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    Curators, critics and authors pick their favourite work from the Kinngait artist’s solo exhibition.
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    Leslie Scanlon unpacks Qavavau Manumie’s graphic artwork.
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    How One Inuit Sculpture Links Two Very Different Parts of the World

    Napatsi Folger finds Inuit compassion and understanding reflected in Tutuyea Ikkidluak’s sculpture.
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    What Arctic Char Means to Inuit Nunangat

    Emily Laurent Henderson explores the meaning behind Jennie Williams’ photograph.
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    The Power of Nostalgia in Inuit Art

    Inuit representation in toys and art.
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    The graphic artist from Kinngait honoured in naming ceremony on International Inuit Day.
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    How Storytelling Endures Through Inuit Art

    Megan Kyak-Monteith explores the story behind Davidialuk Amittu’s sculpture.
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  • Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory wins the Sobey Art Award

    The Iqaluit-based artist is the first Inuk in 15 years to receive the honour.
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    The Many Meanings of Joe Talirunili’s “The Migration”

    Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona reveals what made Joe Talirunili Joe Talirunili.
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    Learning the Disappearing Art of Black-bottomed Sealskin Boots

    Vanessa Flowers and Veronica Flowers carry on their grandmother’s legacy.
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    How Jessie Oonark Turned Qamani’tuaq Into a Hub for Inuit Art

    The beginnings of the Baker Lake Sanavik Co-operative.
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    7 Bone-Rattling Works of Skeleton Art

    We’re bringing you skulls this spooky season.
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    What Can Be Learned From the First Generation of Holman Artists?

    A look into Helen Kalvak’s contributions to the Ulukhaktok co-operative movement.
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    What Did Ookpik Dolls Have to Do With Kuujjuaq’s Co-op Movement?

    How Jeannie Snowball’s iconic owl helped to sustain the Nunavik artist co-operative.
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    Inside the Mind of “Tattooed Woman”

    Phebe Bentley exposes the secrets of one 1950s carving.
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    How Inuit Artists Came Together to Establish Nunavik’s First Co-op

    Levi Qumaluk, Aisa Qoperqualu, Charlie Sivuarapik and Peter Amautik’s legacy in Puvirnituq.
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    How I Choose to Carry on My Family’s Artistic Legacy

    Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona examines her grandmother Victoria Mamnguqsualuk’s art.
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  • 2 Inuit Nominated for 2021 Governor General’s Literary Awards

    Norma Dunning named finalist for her story collection and Larry Audlaluk for his memoir.
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    4 Must-See Films at imagineNATIVE 2021

    Our editors’ top picks from the world’s largest Indigenous media arts festival.
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  • Nunatsiavut Artist Jason Sikoak Designs Coin for the Royal Canadian Mint

    Sikoak speaks with the IAQ about the inspiration behind their design.
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    How Did Kananginak Pootoogook Help Open Kinngait’s First Print Shop?

    A brief history of West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative’s early days.
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  • “Nalujuk Night” Takes Home Award for Best Atlantic Short Documentary

    Jennie Williams’ debut film wins at FIN Festival.
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    How Tim Pitsiulak’s Work is Connected to the Land

    Kale Sheppard looks below the surface of this icon’s artwork.
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  • “Angakusajaujuq” wins Best Canadian Short Film at TIFF

    Toronto International Film Festival awards Zacharias Kunuk’s animated film.
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    5 Inuit Artists to Support on Orange Shirt Day

    Buy from Indigenous Creators on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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    What Stories Can a Stone Sculpture Tell Us?

    Brian Kowikchuk interprets the tale Kumakuluk Saggiak left behind in stone.
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    Tarralik Duffy Through 5 Works of Art

    Get to know the winner of the 2021 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award.
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    The multidisciplinary artist is the second winner of the IAF’s $10,000 prize, plus solo exhibition and residency at WAG-Qaumajuq.
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    A Portrait of Inuit Self-Sustainability Carved in Stone

    Topsy Banksland takes us on a tour of Pierre Karlik’s complicated carving.
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    13 Questions with Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

    2021 Sobey shortlisted artist gets real about her recent work.
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    What One Inukjuak Sculpture Says About the Past

    Holly Andersen shows off female power in one 1950s sculpture.
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    Kalaaleq Artist Showcases Inuit Values in Watercolour Portrait

    Olivia Thomassie explores the knowledge contained in this painting by Seqininnguaq Poulsen.
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    Award-winning film to show at the Toronto International Film Festival this September.
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    Why Couzyn van Heuvelen Creates Giant Inuit Art Objects

    The IAQ talks with the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award shortlisted artist.
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    What Drives Inuit Artist Tarralik Duffy to Create

    The IAQ talks with the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award shortlisted artist.
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    How Inuit Photographer Eldred Allen Became an Accidental Artist

    The IAQ talks with KAMA shortlisted artist Eldred Allen.
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    Kablusiak Turns Inuit Narrative On Its Head

    The IAQ talks with KAMA shortlisted artist Kablusiak.
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    5 Places to Find Public Inuit Art

    Must-see artworks to visit across Canada.
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    Inuit Print Gives a Glimpse into Shaman’s Performance

    Luke Anguhadluq draws us into the iglu to watch a drum dance.
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    Stone Owl Sparks Memories of a Successful Hunt

    Kyle Natkusiak Aleekuk makes a connection with Osuitok Ipeelee’s Mythical Owl.
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    Designers Victoria Okpik and Julie Grenier and performer Elisapie featured at the ceremony.
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    5 Friendly Inuit Artworks to Send to Your BFF

    Artworks that celebrate friendship, kindness and connection.
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    Building a Photographic Community in a Lockdown?

    What keeps Inupiaq artist Brian Adams looking to the future.
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    Meet the 4 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award Shortlisted Artists

    Inuit artists Eldred Allen, Tarralik Duffy, Kablusiak and Couzyn van Heuvelen in the running for $10,000 prize.
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    Processing Change in a Pandemic Using Photography

    How Inuk artist Jennie Williams adapted her practice to document family life indoors.
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    Why Taqralik Partridge Refocused on Home During COVID-19

    An Inuit writer uses photographs to speak to how the pandemic has reinforced her values.
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    Inuvialuk artist Nanook Gordon Supports Community with the Creation of Native Arts Society

    Canada’s first Indigenous two-spirit, trans-led arts gallery to open in Toronto this fall.
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    How an Inuit Photographer Found Comfort Inside During a Global Pandemic

    How Chris P. Sampson reframes his world when home means so much more.
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    Staggering sales for sculptures by Oviloo Tunnillie, Elijassiapik and Sheokjuk Oqutaq top the list.
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    How One Artwork Smashes the Boundary Between Past and Present

    Shuvinai Ashoona brings a mythical creature face to face with a modern cell phone.
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    Your Guide to Some of History’s Biggest Inuit Artists

    Learn about the life and career of influential artists Kenojuak Ashevak, Jessie Oonark, Tivi Etok, Agnes Nanogak Goose and Gilbert Hay.
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    10 Nunavut Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunavut.
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    One Drawing that Encompasses a Life

    Siassie Kenneally explains the meaning behind her keystone image “All These Things That I Have Seen”.
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    What Does It Mean to Be a Queer Inuit Artist?

    Alice Qannik Glenn, Jenny Irene Miller and Ossie Michelin discuss the intersection between Indigeneity, queerness and art.
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    How 3 Nunatsiavut Women Artists Contribute to the History of Labrador

    Recognizing the artistic legacies of Josephina Kalleo, Garmel Rich and Nellie Winters.
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    7 Works of Fatherly Love

    From hunting to playing and everything in between.
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    Carving Out Inuit Rights to Quarry Stone

    The value of access to quality serpentinite, argillite and steatite for Inuit artists.
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    10 Inuvialuit Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of artmaking in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
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  • Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory Makes Sobey 2021 Shortlist

    Third Inuit artist ever to reach the shortlist!
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    How to Overcome the Erasure of Inuit Identity in Archival Photos

    ITK President Natan Obed gives a name to a painful past.
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    Seeing Myself Reflected in the Ulu of Kiugak Ashoona’s Sculpture

    One artwork encapsulates female power and intergenerational teaching for Leanne Inuarak-Dall.
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    8 Captivating Caribou Creations in Inuit Art

    Tuktu—the animal near and deer to our hearts.
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    7 More Virtual Inuit Art Exhibitions to Visit

    New art-viewing opportunities await.
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    8 Arctic Landscapes by Inuit Artists

    Views of the North from those who inhabit it.
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  • Inuit Art Quarterly Nominated for 7 National Magazine Awards

    IAQ recognized for Short Feature Writing, Best Editorial Package, Editor Grand Prix, Publisher Grand Prix and Best Magazine!
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    A Inuit Art Counternarrative to the Group of Seven's Vision of the Arctic

    Reexamining the visual language of the North through the watercolour paintings of Niap and Frederick Varley.
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    10 Works of Motherly Love

    Celebrate the bond between mother and child through Inuit art.
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    7 Awesome Avian Artworks in Inuit Art

    This one is strictly for the birds
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    First time in the award’s history that 4 circumpolar Indigenous artists have appeared on a longlist together.
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    How Nunatsiavut Artists Use Their Work to Fight Climate Change

    Protecting water in the community of Rigolet
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    Linking the Land, Sea and Air in Inuit Sculpture and Poetry

    Ningeosiak Ashoona and Uvavnuk show the constant flow of nature that moves them to their core.
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    Why Are Joe Boats so Expensive?

    The enduring popularity of Joe Talirunity’s seafaring sculptures.
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    Hunting Caribou Through Inuktitut Poetry and Sculpture

    Tegoodligak and Osuitok Ipeelee sing for their supper.
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    6 Notable Works of Narwhal Art

    An ode to the unicorn of the sea.
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    Inuit Poetry and Ceramics that Contemplate Life and Nature

    The wind connects works by Tegoodligak, Pierre Aupilardjuk and Leo Napayok.
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    The Inuk-Woman Power of Musical Multihyphenate Elisapie

    Using art to address injustice.
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    6+ Inuit Seasons in 1 Poem and 1 Sculpture

    Martha Nasook and Michael Massie bring the stars in one place to celebrate the return of spring.
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    Emerging talent proud to represent a young generation of up-and-coming Inuit performers.
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    INUA Curators Share 4 Favourite Artworks from the Exhibition

    A peek at some compelling pieces from Qaumajuq’s inaugural exhibition.
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    Centring Inuit Perspectives and Culture in INUA’s Exhibition Design

    Nicole Luke discusses her design approach to Qaumajuq’s inaugural exhibition.
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    The Design Behind the Qaumajuq Building

    Lead architect Michael Maltzan discusses the journey to creating this one-of-a-kind space.
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  • Nunavut Heritage Centre Receives $490,000 in Additional Funding from NTI

    Nunavut-based centre gets one step closer to being built.
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    Doors open on the inaugural exhibition at Qaumajuq, WAG’s new Inuit art centre.
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    7 Seriously Stellar Seals in Inuit Art

    These artworks get our seal of approval!
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    Why Memory and Painting are Inseparable for Darcie Bernhardt

    Trying to pin down hazy memories with oil paint.
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    How is Inuk Artist Logan Ruben like Vincent van Gogh?

    Colour and texture combine in this emerging painter’s work.
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    Hannah Tooktoo on Combining Art and Activism

    Young painter connects message and medium in her work.
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    Niap’s Foray into Mural Art

    What one Nunavik artist learned after taking painting to a brand new scale.
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    Can You Find All the Hidden Details in One Jessie Oonark Wallhanging?

    The famous Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake) artist has her own visual language.
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    8 Female Inuit Artists at the Top of Their Game

    From sculpture to virtual reality, these women are creating amazing work.
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    Inuit Youth Complete First Large-Scale Mural in Nunatsiavut

    Jessica Winters engages community with Makkovik mural.
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    The 10 Bear Boogie

    The grooviest bears on the internet.
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  • Bart Hanna Kappianaq Unveils Sculpture at Parliament Hill

    Renowned Iglulik-based sculptor Bart Hanna Kappianaq unveiled Sedna with Friends (2019) at the Canadian Parliament Complex in Ottawa, ON, coinciding with the 20th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of Nunavut.
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    Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

    Fellow author Norman Dunning delves into Polaris Prize and Juno award-winning musician Tanya Tagaq’s debut novel Split Tooth (2018) that is a part autobiographical, part fictional and intermingles prose with poetry and drawing.
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  • Artists Boycott Indigenous Music Awards Over Cultural Appropriation

    Inuit musicians Tanya Tagaq, Kelly Fraser, PIQSIQ, Iva and more have boycotted the Indigenous Music Awards over concerns of cultural appropriation in the work of nominee Cikwes, who incorporates throat singing within her work.
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  • Jessica Kotierk Leads Iqaluit Museum as Manager and Curator

    The Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum in Iqaluit, NU, the Territory’s only museum, announced recently that Jessica Kotierk has been hired as the Manager and Curator.
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  • Jocelyn Piirainen Joins Winnipeg Art Gallery as Assistant Curator

    Ottawa-based artist and curator Jocelyn Piirainen has joined the Winnipeg Art Gallery as the inaugural Assistant Curator of Inuit Art. Piirainen is the first Inuk in Canada to hold a lead curatorial position at a provincial museum.
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    Katherine Takpannie

    Ottawa-based photographer Katherine Takpannie captures the complexities and nuances of urban Inuit life with her expansive scenes and intimate portraits.
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  • Collaborative Installation Debuts at Nuit Blanche

    “Memory Keepers /Gardiens des mémoires” is a collaborative installation by Jesse Tungilik, Jason Sikoak, Megan Kyak-Monteith, Darcie Bernhardt, Tom McLeod, Glenn Gear and Caroline Monnet at the FOFA Gallery courtyard at Concordia.
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  • Prime Minister Apologizes for Historic Mistreatment of Tuberculosis Patients

    Accompanying the historic apology from the federal government, we revisit the carvings produced during patient stays in southern sanitariums that provide an invaluable record of this chapter of Canadian history in stone.
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    Soft Shapes and Hard Mattresses

    Despite the fact that love and sex in the Canadian Arctic is not new, images of erotic scenes have rarely graced the pages of the IAQ. Here, we push past voyeuristic taboos to bring us into the pulse of recent erotic Inuit art.
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    documenta 14

    Arguably the world’s largest—and most debated—recurring contemporary art exhibitions, documenta 14 urges viewers to rethink the powerful potential of objects and images in the advancement of Indigenous sovereignty.
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  • Canadian Museum of History Receives Major Donation of Inuit Art

    Over 750 contemporary sculptures, 120 works on paper and 25 examples of historical material by Inuit artists from across the North were donated to the Canadian Museum of by the estate of Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess.
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    Tunirrusiangit

    A curator, artist and writer reviews the landmark exhibition “Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak” and the critical strategies that blur the divides between artist and curator.
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  • Shuvinai Ashoona Receives 2018 Gershon Iskowitz Prize 

    The Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU graphic artist is the first Inuk recipient of the prestigious $50,000 prize and solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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    Remembering Elisapee Ishulutaq

    Renowned artist Elisapee Ishulutaq, OC, passed away on December 8, 2018 in Panniqtuq (Pangnirtung), NU, at the age of ninety-three. Born in 1925, Ishulutaq lived on the land until around 1970 when she and her family moved to Panniqtuq.
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  • The City of Ottawa Art Collection Acquires New Works

    Barry Pottle, Katherine Takpannie and Annie Pootoogook (1961-2016) are among the artists included in the City of Ottawa Art Collection’s recent acquisition who will be featured the exhibition Kaleidoscope at the City Hall Art Gallery.
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  • Kenojuak Ashevak Breaks Records at Auction

    Following a riveting round of bidding at Waddington’s in Toronto, ON on November 20th, 2018, a red-tailed copy of Kenojuak Ashevak’s famous 1960 print The Enchanted Owl broke previous auctions records set by the artist.
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    Independent curator and Associate Dean at OCAD University Ryan Rice reflects on the legacy of a foundational national collection and its power to reframe dialogues on the scope and shape of what a nation might be.
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    Revisiting Annie Pootoogook

    We explore the lesser-known currents of Pootoogook’s oeuvre, providing a new way to look at the profound impact of her work.
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    Printed Matters

    The chance discovery of works by Helen Kalvak, Agnes Nanogak Goose, and more—once thought to be lost—spread across three safes in the community of Ulukhaktok, NT, has spurred a new digitization effort.
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  • Circumpolar Indigenous Film at imagineNATIVE 2018

    From fantasy and adventure to experimental film, music video and documentaries, we’ve rounded up the best offerings from the Circumpolar North across the five-day festival.
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    Celebrating 30 Years of Supporting Artists

    Tracing the last 30 years at the Inuit Art Foundation.
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  • 59th Annual Cape Dorset Print Collection Released

    The collection features prints by Saimaiyu Akesuk, Shuvinai Ashoona, Qavavau Manumie, Malaija Pootoogook, Cee Pootoogook, Quvianaqtuk Pudlat, Pauojoungie Saggiak, Pitaloosie Saila, Axangayuk Shaa, Padloo Samayualie, and more!
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  • MBAM Acquires Work by Niap and Partners with Avataq

    MBAM deepened its promotion of Inuit art and culture with a recent acquisition of work by Niap (Nancy Saunders) as well as the announcement of a new partnership with the Avataq Cultural Institute.
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    Remembering Siassie Kenneally

    Kinngait-based artist Siassie Kenneally passed away recently in Iqaluit, NU. Over the course of her life, Kenneally produced an incredibly personal body of work that examined modern and traditional life from her own unique perspective
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  • Kenojuak Cultural Centre Opens Its Doors in Kinngait

    The $10.2 million-dollar Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop in Kinngait (Cape Dorest), NU opened its doors on September 5, 2018 with a series of celebrations and exhibitions.
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  • Story of All-Inuit Lacrosse Team To Premiere At TIFF

    The Grizzlies, a film based on the all-Inuit team of the same name, will have its worldwide premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival this fall.
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    Ooloosie Saila

    One of the most original young artists working in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU, today, Saila has gained an almost immediate, enthusiastic following in the South for her whimsical creatures and otherworldly landscapes.
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    Siassie Kenneally

    Siassie Kenneally qaujimajaulauqpuq titiqtugarminut, tunngaviqalauqput iqqaumajaminik inuusirilauaqtaminiglu. Taana unikkausiqaqpuq titiqtugarmik atausirmit nuititiisimattiarninganik inuusiulauqtumik saqqititinngmat ilunngittiaqsimajumik.
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    Spiders, Insects and Other Creepy-Crawlies

    During summer the days are long, the skies are sunny and the insects are out in full force. We are sharing 5 Works from our spring 2018 issue which highlight artists’ interpretations of sometimes pesky, sometimes friendly, critters.
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  • Nunavut Artists Selected for Public Art Program in Iqaluit Daycare

    Last week, the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs announced that the construction of the new Iqaluit Community Day Care is underway and will prominently feature commissioned works by Nunavut artists.
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    IAF Celebrates Nunavut Day

    Happy Nunavut Day! In honour of the 25th anniversary of the land claims agreement that initiated the establishment of the territory, we’re celebrating by bringing you a selection of work by artists from Nunavut including Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, Alethea Aggiuq Arnaquq-Baril, Tim Pitsiulak, Jesse Tungilik, Andrew Qappik, Jessie Oonark, Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, Kenojuak Ashevak and Hinaani Design.
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  • Bart Hanna Awarded Major Commission in Ottawa

    Iglulik (Igloolik)-based sculptor Bart Hanna Kappianaq has been selected to install a new work in Centre Block, the main building of the Canadian parliament complex on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
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  • Panniqtuuq Releases First Major Print Collection Since 2011

    For the first time since 2011, the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts in Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), NU, unveiled a new print collection at a launch event on July 8, 2018 as part of the Nunavut Arts Festival in Iqaluit, NU.
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  • Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory Wins Inaugural Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award

    Iqaluit-based artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is the recipient of the inaugural Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award, for her multi-disciplinary practice which centres on uaajeerneq (Greenlandic mask dance).
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    Hinaani Design

    “We noticed there was a market for Inuit specific clothing because Inuit really love showing off that they are Inuk.”
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    Inuk Design

    IAQ staff met with Inuk Designs during Indigenous Fashion Week in Toronto. They discussed how Inuk Designs got started and what being part of Indigenous Fashion Week in Canada means to Inuk Designs.
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    Martha Kyak

    The IAQ met with Martha Kyak during Indigenous Fashion Week in Toronto. They discussed what being part of Indigenous Fashion Week means to Martha and how her sought-after sealskin necklace came to be.
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    Barbara Akoak of Inuk Barbie Designs

    “There is this Inuk teaching, the more you give the more you get. So if I’m gifted seal flippers, I’ll give a pair of earrings to the huntress or hunter that gave them to me. It’s an exchange and it just keeps giving me more and more.”
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    Inuk 360

    “My goal was to be the Louis Vuitton of tufting.”
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  • WAG Breaks Ground on Inuit Art Centre

    The Winnipeg Art Gallery broke ground on its Inuit Art Centre today. Slated for opening in 2020, the 40,000-sqft, four-storey Centre will bring to view the world’s largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art.
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  • McMichael Canadian Art Collection Announces New Chief Curator

    The McMichael Canadian Art Collection has named as its new curator Toronto-based critic and curator Sarah Milroy as its new Chief Curator, who seeks to “make Canadian art history relevant and fresh for contemporary audiences.”
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    Maureen Gruben

    “The smell of moose hide is a very warm, inviting smell. As an Indigenous person, it brings you home [from] wherever you are as there is this connection to the land and the smell of smoke and hide; it’s a very familiar smell.”
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  • IAQ Nominated for Four National Magazine Awards

    The Inuit Art Quarterly, the world’s sole publication dedicated to the arts and artists of Inuit Nunangat, has received four 2018 National Magazine Award nominations.
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  • Couzyn van Heuvelen Named to the 2018 Sobey Art Award Longlist

    Iqaluit-born artist Couzyn van Heuvelen has been named to the 2018 Sobey Art Award longlist, Canada’s most prestigious award for young artists. The honour comes on the heels of several career milestones for the artist in recent years.
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    Jessie Oonark

    Years after her death, 27 of Jessie Oonark’s pristine drawings were discovered in a manila envelope in a basement. Athough already a celebrated artist, these lost drawings confirmed Oonark’s vitality and confidence as an artist.
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    Bart Hanna

    In 2013, Bart Hanna completed Migration, a monumental ship with a cast of unique characters carved from a single block of stone weighing over 700 pounds. Hanna explains the significance of this singular work to the IAQ.
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    Remembering Lukie Airut

    Iglulik-based artist Lukie Airut (1942–2018) was an immensely talented sculptor known for his multi-dimensional sculptures. His work with whalebone and walrus ivory allowed him to create highly detailed works in increasing scale.
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    Lukie Airut

    A retrospective on the magical work of Lukie Airut, a master carver from Iglulik, NU, whose sculptures echo his deep familiarity with his land and the animals that live there.
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  • Inuit Art Centre Announces All-Inuit Guest Curatorial Team

    The Winnipeg Art Gallery has confirmed a team of four Inuit guest curators to open the WAG’s Inuit Art Centre’s inaugural exhibition calendar.
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    The Intertwined History Of Politics And Art in Nunatsiavut

    Yet in spite of the lack of an enduring arts industry, a cooperative system, institutional support or scholarly interest, Nunatsiavut continues to produce such exceptional artists as Michael Massie, John Terriak and Heather Campbell.
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  • Andrew Qappik Named Member of the Order of Canada

    Governor General Julie Payette announced 125 new appointments to the Order of Canada, among them Andrew Qappik “for his contributions to defining the visual culture of Nunavut as a master printmaker and sculptor.”
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    Tiktak

    Tiktak, a Kangiqliniq (Rankin Inlet) sculptor, was the first Inuk artist to have a solo show; his one-man show was a watershed moment in the field of Inuit art, paving the way for the hundreds (if not thousands) of solo shows that followed.
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  • Funding and Curatorial Future of the WAG’s Inuit Art Centre

    Manitoba Sport, Culture and Heritage Minister has confirmed the provincial government will provide $10 million over five years to the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Inuit Art Centre, a first-of-its-kind cultural landmark in the making.
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  • Isuma to Represent Canada at the 58th Venice Biennale

    The 2019 representative artist for the Canada Pavilion at the 58th Venice will be the artist collective Isuma. This is the second time Inuit artists have been presented at the fair, Kananginak Pootoogook being the first in 2017.
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    Lucy Tulugarjuk

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Inez Shiwak

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Daniel Shimout

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Nicotye Samayualie

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Barry Pottle

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Vinnie Karetak

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Jimmy Kalinek

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Victoria Kakuktinniq

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Sandra Hollett

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Kelly Fraser

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Leevan Etok

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Julia Manoyok Ekpakohak

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Tony Anguhalluq

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Fanny Algaalaga Avatituq

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Saimaiyu Akesuk

    For our 30th anniversary issue, the IAQ asked 15 leading figures in Inuit art to nominate an early-career artist to watch. In turn, those artists selected a senior talent who has inspired them.
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    Sightlines and Surfaces

    Boundary pushing Vancouver-based painter Mark Igliolorte discusses his ongoing research into the Indigenous origins of the kayak, the beauty in shifting perspectives and collapsing the vast distance between coasts.
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    Celebrating 30 Years

    For three decades, the IAQ has been introducing readers around the globe to the luminaries of Inuit art world. It has been our great pleasure to share the beauty and vitality of Inuit cultural production over the past 30 years.
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    Anchorage Museum

    For this spotlight on the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska, we asked Aaron Leggett, Curator of Alaska History and Culture, to pick the five works he believes speak to the heart of the collection.
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    Nuuk Kunstmuseum

    For this spotlight on the Nuuk Kunstmuseum in Nuuk, Greenland we asked curators Nivi Christensen and Stine Lundberg Hansen to pick 5 works they believe speak to the heart of the collection.
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    Bill Nasogaluak

    Everyone who enters our living room stops and looks in awe at the green stone sculpture by Inuit artist Bill Nasogaluak titled Sedna on Cross (2006). Also known as The Death of My Culture, the sculpture’s strength is inescapable.
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    Boarder X

    Boarder X is the first exhibition to bring together the work of Inuit, First Nations and Métis artists who also surf, skate or snowboard, and it is a blockbuster. The opening saw 900 people cross the threshold of the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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  • New Study Finds Value of Inuit Arts Economy

    Inuit art contributed $87.2 million to the Canadian economy in 2015, according to a trailblazing study released today.
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  • Inuit Art Foundation Announces Igloo Tag Trademark Transfer in Iqaluit

    The Igloo Tag Trademark will transfer from Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada to the IAF, which is uniquely positioned to administer the trademark to further protect, promote and support Inuit art in Canada and internationally.
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  • Michael Massie and Ellen Hamilton Receive the Order of Canada

    Massie was made a Member to the Order for his work as a sculptor and silversmith and Hamilton for her promotion of Inuit arts and culture, as well as her support of Arctic performers and artists.
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  • Mural by Inuk Artist Nancy Saunders Revealed at Ottawa Museum

    In celebration of National Aboriginal Day, the Canadian Museum of Nature opens the new, permanent Canada Goose Arctic Gallery, featuring Ilurqusivut (Our Ways), a large-scale mural created by Inuk artist Nancy Saunders (Niap).
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    Eye on the Arctic

    The IAQ is pleased to present this portfolio—a look at Inuit photography today—with some of the most notable artists working across the North.
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  • Kenojuak Ashevak on the Canadian Ten Dollar Bill

    For the first time ever, a Canadian banknote features a work of Inuit art! Kenojuak Ashevak’s Owl’s Bouquet (2007) will appear on 40 million commemorative $10 banknotes celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation.
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  • Mattiusi Iyaituk Presents on Artist Resale Right

    Former Inuit Art Foundation President Mattiusi Iyaituk travels to Switzerland to present at the International Conference on Artist’s Resale Right, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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  • Building a Nunavut Performing Arts & Culture Centre

    After eight years of annual consultations, Qaggiavuut! is preparing to launch an international fundraising campaign for a Nunavut Performing Arts Centre, pursuing financial support for a dedicated performance space for the region.
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  • IAQ Editor Britt Gallpen Awarded Inaugural Editor Grand Prix, Honourable Mention

    Inuit Art Quarterly Editor Britt Gallpen has been recognized as Editor Grand Prix, Honourable Mention at the 2017 Magazine Grands Prix. The award recognizes excellence, leadership and mentorship in magazine editing.
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  • The Hnatyshyn Foundation's REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards

    The Hnatyshyn Foundation announced in Ottawa today the laureates of the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards, which honour Indigenous artists who have shown exceptional leadership in both their home communities and on the world stage.
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    Inuit Art Quarterly Shortlisted for Canadian Magazine Award

    The Inuit Art Quarterly has been shortlisted for Best Magazine, Literature and Art in the 2017 Canadian Magazine Awards. The nomination, announced March 30, 2017, recognizes excellence in publishing in the arts and literature, including poetry. This is the inaugural year for the Canadian Magazine Awards presented by Magazines Canada. This is also the IAQ’s first nomination for a ‘Best Magazine’ award in its thirty year history.
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    Remembering Kellypalik Qimirpik

    Kinngait (Cape Dorset) sculptor Kellypalik Qimirpik (1948–2017) passed away earlier this year. An avid carver whose career was marked by important commissions, his sculptures of Arctic animals were exhibited worldwide.
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  • Update on the Inuit Film and Video Archives

    The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation announced in March that significant progress has been made on the Inuit Film and Video Archives, an effort to digitize some 9000 hours of film and other records and make them accessible to the public.
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  • Shuvinai Ashoona Appointed to the RCA

    In May 2016, Shuvinai Ashoona was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, joining the ranks of a significant group of Inuit artists who share the RCA distinction, including Helen Kalvak, Jessie Oonark and Kananginak Pootoogook.
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  • Inuit Art at the 57th Venice Biennale

    Kananginak Pootoogook, RCA (1935–2010) has been named as a participating artist in this year’s Venice Biennale, opening May 13, 2017. The late Kinngait (Cape Dorset) artist is the first Inuit artist to be included in the fair.
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    Astral Bodies

    Astral Bodies (2016) at the Mercer Union in Toronto, allows viewers to speculate what the otherworldly may hold through the works of five women whose individual practices address real or imagined spaces beyond physical realms.
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    Couzyn van Heuvelen

    Iqaluit-born sculptor and installation artist Couzyn van Heuvelen has created something distinctive with Avataq, a project consisting of several handmade foil balloons resembling traditional sealskin floats.
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    Annie Pootoogook (1969 – 2016)

    Jimmy Manning remembers Annie Pootoogook. She grew up in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) as part of a highly artistic family which included parents Eegyvudluk and Napachie Pootoogook, and grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona, who she revered.
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    Change Makers

    What, or rather who, is a change maker? This is the central question that lingered for me after visiting Change Makers at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, which featured works by seven Indigenous artists working across North America and Europe. Given the gallery’s newly-implemented mandate to incorporate “diverse Indigenous perspectives within exhibitions and programming,” the answer seems implied but was not fully articulated. Read More
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    Tanya Lukin Linklater's Choreography of Space

    Tanya Lukin Linklater talks to the IAQ about her most recent performance, and the space, the dancers, the musician, the text, the backstory and the moment of performance all have their parts to play.
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    Inuit Art Auction Picks

    The IAQ’s favourite auction picks from the fall 2016 art offerings. Here are works that surprised us, delighted us, and left us wishing our budgets were unlimited.
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    Angry Inuk

    The seal hunt is a delicate subject for Newfoundland and Labradorians. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s Angry Inuk takes on anti-sealing narratives to examine what the hunt represents for Canada’s Inuit.
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  • Kenojuak Ashevak Heritage Minute

    Historica Canada has launched a new Heritage Minute highlighting the groundbreaking career of the late Kinngait artist Kenojuak Ashevak. This Minute is the first to be produced entirely in Inuktitut as well as English and French.
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    Floe Edge

    Review of Floe Edge (2016) at the AXENÉO7 Gallery in Gatineau, QC. The packed exhibition hosted works from Tim Pitsiulak, Mona Netser, Nicole Camphaug, Lavinia van Heuvelen, Mathew Nuqingaq and more.
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    Listening for Sedna

    ArtCOP21: a global program of exhibitions, installations and more that emphasize the interrelatedness of climate and culture. Can art communicate the human effects of climate change at a deeper level than facts and figures alone?
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    Rocks, Stones and Dust

    Rocks, Stones and Dust brings together work by sixteen artists to reimagine human relationships to rocks, encouraging a reevaluation of our understanding of rocks as stagnant objects.
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    Cold Dream

    Manumie’s depiction of human interactions with both the natural and the spiritual worlds melds oral stories with imaginative, often surreal forms that give a sense of the complex interactions of life in the North.
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