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  • MaleganaJessicaWorkshop1

    The Story of One Nunavik Family’s Printmaking Journey

    A history of Nunavik printmaking through the generations, with illustrations by Jessica Malegana.
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    Maureen Gruben Shares the Stories Behind 5 of Her Artworks

    A Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted multidisciplinary artist on crisis, collaboration and joy.
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    ᐊᓯᔾᔨᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᓕᐅᖅᐸᖕᓂᖏᑦ

    ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᓯᒪᔫᒃ ᒪᐃᓚ ᓯᐅᓗᒃ ᔭᐃᑲᑉᓴᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑯᕆᔅᑕ ᐅᓗᔪᒃ ᔭᑦᐅᐊᔅᓯᑭᒃᑯᒃ ᑕᐅᑐᖅᑰᖅᑕᒥᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᖅᐳᒃ ᓴᖅᑭᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᓕᖅᑐᓂᒃ.
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  • ArnaktauyokGermaine_RitesofPassage

    ᑭᖑᕚᒃᓴᕗᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᓕᐅᖅᑎᐅᓛᖅᑐᑦ ᓴᖅᑮᒃᑲᓐᓂᕋᓱᐊᕐᓗᑎᒃ ᐊᑐᖅᑕᐅᕙᒍᓐᓃᖅᓯᒪᔪᒥᒃ

    ᓴᖅᑭᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᓕᕆᔪᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᖅᐳᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᕐᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑐᓐᓂᕐᓂᒃ.
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  • GearGlenn_IluaniSilami

    Get to Know Glenn Gear Through 5 Works

    How the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist has developed his unique visual language.
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  • PeggyPojuktokPudjuktok_Bathurst Inlet_NWTArchives

    The Changing Face of the Inuit Tattoo Movement

    Scholars Maya Sialuk Jacobsen and Krista Ulujuk Zawadski share their perspectives on the resurgent practices.
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  • ArnaktauyokGermaine_RitesofPassage

    The Next Generation of Inuit Tattooers on Revitalizing the Practice

    Emerging Inuit tattooers and cultural advocates converse about the resurgence of kakiniit and tunniit.
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  • GautherBilly_MendingHerMitten

    Billy Gauthier Tells the Stories Behind 5 of His Artworks

    The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted sculptor reflects on major projects and his relationship to the materials that compose them.
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  • EdmundsDeantha_FrankfurtBookFair_2021

    Deantha Edmunds on 5 of her Most Iconic Musical Performances

    Learn more about the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted classical singer’s work.
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  • ManasieAkpaliapik_RespectingTheCircle

    Manasie Akpaliapik Through 5 Works

    Learn about the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award longlisted artist.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_CvHeuvelen

    The Expansive Work of Couzyn van Heuvelen

    How working in public space and connecting with his audiences is fuelling this artist’s growth.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_NTeevee

    The Spirited Storytelling of Ningiukulu Teevee

    The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist shares her many sources of inspiration.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_GPutumiraqtuq

    Gloria Putumiraqtuq Takes Pride in the Strength of Her Culture

    How the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted textile artist passes on knowledge across generations.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_Kablusiak

    Kablusiak Gives Themself Permission to Play

    The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist celebrates Inuit artistic legacies in their work, while evading colonial expectations of contemporary Inuit representation.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_GKabloona

    How Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona Builds Connection

    Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona commands many mediums, with her family featuring strongly in her practice.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_MGruben

    Making Space For Maureen Gruben’s Artistic Ambitions

    A textile, installation and performance artist on her growing career—and what she dreams of next.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_GGear PHOTO LISA GRAVES

    Behind the Immersive Animations of Glenn Gear

    For the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted new media artist, creating is as fundamental as breathing.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_BGauthier_2023KAMA_LonglistHeadshots_BGauthier PHOTO MEGAN STEWART, COURTESY THE NEW HUMANITARIAN

    How Chance Encounters Inspire Billy Gauthier’s Carvings

    The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted sculptor channels experiences on the land into his intricate works.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_DEdmunds

    Deantha Edmunds on Music, Writing, Teaching and Uplifting Others

    How the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted classical singer enriches her practice by celebrating the different parts of herself.
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  • 2023KAMA_InterviewGraphic_MAkpaliapik

    How Sculptor Manasie Akpaliapik Pushes Himself

    In a career spanning more than 45 years, Manasie Akpaliapik’s focus remains on improving his craft.
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    David Ruben Piqtoukun Through 5 Works of Art

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    Inuit Artists Inspired by Kenojuak Ashevak

    How an Inuit art icon inspired 7 artists across generations and regions.
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    Your Guide to Inuit Art in 2023

    Inuit artists are in the spotlight with exhibitions, books and other exciting new initiatives!
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  • AglukarkS

    Susan Aglukark's Mission to Share Stories and Correct Narratives Through Art

    The beloved Nunavut singer-songwriter ends 2022 with a new album, a kids’ book and an award celebrating her humanitarian efforts.
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  • MoorhouseShirleyToHonourTheFirekeepers

    The 9 Inuit Art Moments You Need to Know: 2022 Edition

    What were 2022’s most notable events in the Inuit art world?
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    How Inuktitut Music Took Over Northern Airwaves

    The legacy and lasting impact of the CBC North recording sessions.
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    What Happens When You Put Inuit Art on a Global Stage?

    How Inuit art at Expo 67 shaped perceptions of Inuit art and artists then and now.
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  • Henderson and Suersaq Poulsen_CROP

    Presenting Cultural Identity Through Traditional Clothing

    How the gift of a Greenlandic annoraaq connected Jonas Henderson to his culture.
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    Bridging the Distance Between the Arctic and the Amazon

    A cross-Americas exhibition at the Power Plant illuminates the commonalities between Indigenous artists, their relationships to the land and desire for ancestral knowledge.
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  • Abraham Anghik Ruben - The Last Goodbye - Soapstone

    Three Inuit Artworks to Reflect On for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

    This September 30, we invite you to spend time with and amplify the voices of Indigenous artists.
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  • Labrador Inuit Association Meets Bill Rompkey

    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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  • Annie Pootoogook - Making Love

    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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  • Nungusuituq - A Boat, Kayaks, and Dogs

    What are the Earliest Inuit Prints?

    How did prints by one Inuk get published in the South in 1915?
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  • Terry Ryan, Sheouak Petaulassie with a child, and a woman at West Baffin Co-operative, Kinngait, Nunavut.

    How to Strip an Archive of Cultural Insensitivity

    10 Inuit archival photographs given new names and context.
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  • Deantha Edmunds Messiah/Complex - Photo by Justin Oakey

    How Deantha Edmunds is Decolonizing Opera

    World’s first Inuk opera singer says classical music is for everyone.
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  • CEAC Portfolio

    What Gets Lost

    The CEAC spent decades moderating the sale of Inuit art to southern audiences by prohibiting works deemed unacceptable from entering the market. We examine what works were rejected and why.
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  • Lizzie Ittinuar Beaded Amauti

    Glass Beads in Inuit Needlework From Past to Present

    A trip to the glassworks in Murano, Italy, reveals the links between Inuit and Venetians.
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  • Nuvuja9 Caribou antler earrings, beaded necklace, sealskin shawl and sweetheart top with seal leather skirt

    11 Inuit Designers to see at the Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival

    Catch Inuit talent at the marketplace and on the runways.
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  • Sami Pavilion - 2022

    The Sámi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Then and Now

    How the Nordic Pavilion became the Sámi Pavilion
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  • Neevie Simigak - Moon Shaped Sealskin Earrings

    10 Inuit Sealskin Designers to Watch

    Eat seal, wear seal!
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  • Unidentified Tablecloth Polar Bear Hunt

    100 Unidentified Embroideries

    Journeying to Nunatsiavut in search of answers.
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  • Darcie Bernhardt Silla + Rise “Pandemonium”

    Get to Know Darcie Bernhardt in 5 Works of Art

    The Inuvialuk painter shares some of the memories and inspiration behind their favourite artworks.
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  • Pick Me Up and Turn Me Round

    We’re Celebrating Siblings Day with a Comic!

    This Sunday, April 10, is National Siblings Day, and we’re commemorating it with a comic about the love between siblings.
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  • Ningiukulu Teevee - Owl and Friend

    Get to Know Ookpik Through 5 Inuit Artists

    Take a closer look at how artists bring the iconic sealskin owl doll to life.
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  • Kablusiak - Furby Ookpik

    Kablusiak Subverts Inuit Art With Camp and Silliness

    How Kablusiak dismantles the way we are pushed to perceive Inuit art.
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  • Caroline Blechert Fireweed headband/bracelet

    7 More Jewellers Whose Work You Should Covet

    Because you can never have enough jewellery.
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  • Lucassie - Recognition

    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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  • Zebede Evaluardjuk-Fournier - See Me After Class

    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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  • Kenojuak Ashevak - Love Birds

    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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  • Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik - Happy Hearts

    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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  • Holly Andersen Untitled (2018) Digital Photograph

    5 Superb Sled Dog Portraits

    The top dogs of Inuit art.
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  • Achieving a Dream - Tapestry - 2010

    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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  • Silla and Rise - Tulukkat

    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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  • Alberta Rose Ingniq Taimunga

    15 Ways Pantone’s 2022 Colour of the Year Appears in Inuit Art

    Looking to the future with a brand new shade: Very Peri.
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  • Melodie Sammurtok-Lavallée’s paintings of her ivory combs on her bedroom walls

    Accessing Ancestral Ways Of Being, Knowing And Creating Through Art

    Melodie Sammurtok-Lavallée reflects on Inuit identity, history and aesthetics through the process of creating.
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  • Aoudla Pudlat Flaming Bird (1982)

    10 of Your Favourite Stories from 2021

    The stories you loved, all wrapped up in a bow.
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  • Echo Henoche - Shaman

    10 Nunatsiavut Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunatsiavut
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  • Gabai Kaludjak - Aujaq amaut,Spring/Summer 2021 Piruqsiaq Amautiga Collection

    How Sewing Sustains Inuit Seamstresses Through Generations

    Ujarak Appadoo explores how amautiit-making in Arviat has changed over the years.
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  • VVFlowersFeaturedImage

    Learning the Disappearing Art of Black-bottomed Sealskin Boots

    Vanessa Flowers and Veronica Flowers carry on their grandmother’s legacy.
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  • FBCrop_OonarkJessieTattooedFaces

    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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  • MeekoLucyTheStoryOfaManWhoLostAllHisFleshBanner

    7 Bone-Rattling Works of Skeleton Art

    We’re bringing you skulls this spooky season.
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  • KalvakHelenSealskinsToDry

    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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  • SnowballJeannieOokpik

    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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  • FBCrop_QumalukLeviMotherAndChildInHerAmautiq

    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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  • KabloonaGayleUyagaqiMalinaFBCrop

    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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  • FBCrop_McIntyreLindsaySeeingHerStill

    4 Must-See Films at imagineNATIVE 2021

    Our editors’ top picks from the world’s largest Indigenous media arts festival.
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  • PootoogookKananginakTwoSeaPigeons

    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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  • FBCrop_InnaaruulikTanya_OrangeShirtDay2021

    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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  • Kablusiakthingsthatbotharelativeyouhaventseeninalongtimeandtherivercouldsay_iheldyouwhenyouweresmall

    5 Places to Find Public Inuit Art

    Must-see artworks to visit across Canada.
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  • detail_AnguhadluqLukeShamanEnteringtheDrumDance

    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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  • AupilardjukPierreFriendsSharingGossip

    5 Friendly Inuit Artworks to Send to Your BFF

    Artworks that celebrate friendship, kindness and connection.
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  • AdamsBrianMyFatherRonAdams

    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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  • WilliamsJennieUntitled2021_2

    Processing Change in a Pandemic Using Photography

    How Inuk artist Jennie Williams adapted her practice to document family life indoors.
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  • PartridgeTaqralikBiskOnQuarantineDayOne

    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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  • FarealNanookGordonOlsonBriannaGrassDancingPhoto

    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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  • SampsonChrisPMasksDrying

    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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  • Ashevak Kenojuak Untitled Owl And Flowers 2008

    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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  • AirutLukieDrumDancerAndManWithBootCaughtOnMuskoxHorn

    10 Nunavut Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunavut.
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  • RichGarmelFruitBasket

    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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  • MassieMichaelAFatherSonMomentFBCrop

    7 Works of Fatherly Love

    From hunting to playing and everything in between.
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  • SamayualieNicotyeNamesOutOfRocksDetailCrop

    Carving Out Inuit Rights to Quarry Stone

    The value of access to quality serpentinite, argillite and steatite for Inuit artists.
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  • KlengenbergElsieProvidingForFamily

    10 Inuvialuit Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of artmaking in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
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  • ITKLegacyOpener1

    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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  • NoahWilliamTheGreatMaleCaribou

    8 Captivating Caribou Creations in Inuit Art

    Tuktu—the animal near and deer to our hearts.
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  • KigusiuqJanetArcticLandscapeRiver

    8 Arctic Landscapes by Inuit Artists

    Views of the North from those who inhabit it.
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  • NiapComposition2020_1

    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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  • NoahWilliamMotherAndDaughter

    10 Works of Motherly Love

    Celebrate the bond between mother and child through Inuit art.
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  • PudlatAoudlaFlamingBird

    7 Awesome Avian Artworks in Inuit Art

    This one is strictly for the birds
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  • PottleBarryAfterTheMelt

    How Nunatsiavut Artists Use Their Work to Fight Climate Change

    Protecting water in the community of Rigolet
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  • AshoonaNingeosiakTransformationFBCrop

    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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  • TaliruniliJoeBoatWithDogsAndHunters

    Why Are Joe Boats so Expensive?

    The enduring popularity of Joe Talirunity’s seafaring sculptures.
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  • IpeeleeOshuitokCaribouFBCropCrop

    Hunting Caribou Through Inuktitut Poetry and Sculpture

    Tegoodligak and Osuitok Ipeelee sing for their supper.
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  • ArnarktauokGermaineAWomanWhoBecameANarwhal

    6 Notable Works of Narwhal Art

    An ode to the unicorn of the sea.
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  • AupilardjukPierreNapayokLeoMessagesForTheAfterlifeFBCrop

    Inuit Poetry and Ceramics that Contemplate Life and Nature

    The wind connects works by Tegoodligak, Pierre Aupilardjuk and Leo Napayok.
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  • ElisapiePhotoVanessaHeins

    The Inuk-Woman Power of Musical Multihyphenate Elisapie

    Using art to address injustice.
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  • MassieMichealCreativityOfTheSpiritDistantRelationsFbCrop

    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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    7 Seriously Stellar Seals in Inuit Art

    These artworks get our seal of approval!
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  • NiapIlagiilutaMural

    Niap’s Foray into Mural Art

    What one Nunavik artist learned after taking painting to a brand new scale.
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  • Arnaktauyok Germaine Ulus

    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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  • IyaitukNutaraalukPrancingPolarBear

    The 10 Bear Boogie

    The grooviest bears on the internet.
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  • SheppardKaileyMosaicSeaQaumajuqBoardwalkMural

    How the Qaumajuq Boardwalk Mural Helped to Connect Inuit in Winnipeg

    Nunatsiavut artist Kale Sheppard reconnects with her culture through paint.
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  • AleekukKyleNatkusiakIntergalacticCloudberryDancers

    Qanuq atausiq sanaugaliuqti tukinganik pilaurninganik taakutiguunaq sanauganik sivullivinirminik

    The work of Agnes Nanogak Goose and Peter Aliknak Banksland through the eyes of their descendant.
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    How One Artist Takes Meaning From the Art of His Ancestors

    The work of Agnes Nanogak Goose and Peter Aliknak Banksland through the eyes of their descendant.
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  • KaretakCharlotteUntitledArviatHamletOfficeMural

    Arviat Mural Artist Gives Hamlet Office a Makeover

    How Charlotte Karetak renders the vivid skies of her hometown.
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    7 Portrayals of Whales in Inuit Art

    Kriller artworks that’ll blow you away
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    Your Guide to the Monsters in Inuit Art

    Learn what creatures creep in the legends behind your favourite artworks.
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    Kappianaqtunguat Inuit sanaugangittigut

    Illinniarit qanuq kappianaqtut takkuksauqattarninginik taakutiguunaq unikkaartuatigut takuksauvaktut sanaugatigut.
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    ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᑐᖃᖅ ᓲᕐᓗ ᐃᔨᖅᓯᒪᓪᓗᓂ ᖃᒪᓂᖅᑐᐊᕐᒥᐅᑦ ᓂᕕᖓᔪᓕᐊᖏᓐᓂᑦ

    What records have been stitched into the wool duffel of Baker Lake?
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    7 Jewellers Whose Work You Should Covet

    This Valentine’s Day and all days.
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    Sheree McLeod Showcases Blanket Toss in Satellite Antenna Mural

    How one Inuvialuk artist approaches an unusual canvas.
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    Goota Ashoona Created One of the Largest Inuit Sculptures in the World for WAG Qaumajuq

    The artist reveals the process behind the WAG’s newest piece of public art.
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    How Seeing Herself Represented in Art Helped One Woman Speak Up

    An Afro-Inuk woman finds her perfect niche in one intersectional art exhibition.
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    Boarder X

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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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    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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    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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    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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