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    Tarralik Duffy Shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award

    The multidisciplinary Saskatoon-based artist has been shortlisted for the prestigious prize.
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    Several Circumpolar Films to Screen at imagineNATIVE

    Plus: Abraham Anghik Ruben retrospective opens, North of North is renewed for season 2, Aedan Corey is shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award and more!
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    Inuit Art Quarterly Nominated for Two 2025 National Magazine Awards

    IAQ recognized for Best Magazine: Art, Literary, & Culture and One-of-a-Kind Storytelling!
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    North of North Makes Top 10 Most Popular Shows on Netflix

    Inuit artists make the Sobey longlist, Joshua Qaumariaq’s work is selected for the Northwestel Directory and more!
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    Four Inuit Artists Longlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award

    Inuit artists have been longlisted in the award’s Circumpolar category.
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    Elisapie and Deantha Edmunds Each Win 2025 Juno Awards

    Singer-songwriter Elisapie wins for her album Inuktitut (2023) and classical soprano Deantha Edmunds wins for her composition "Angmaluksiaa" (2024).
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    6 Inuit Artists to Take Part in the 2025 Bonavista Biennale

    Plus: 3 artists have been selected for the WAG-Qaumajuq artist residency, Aukkauti premieres at the Puvirnituq Snow Festival and more!
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    Two Inuit Musicians are Nominated for Multiple Juno Awards

    Plus: more top Inuit art news from February 2025.
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    Alaska Native Children’s TV Show Nominated for Two Emmy Awards

    And more news stories from the circumpolar art world!
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    News Roundup: Forthcoming Anchorage Museum Fellowship will Bolster Circumpolar Artists

    Plus: Eldred Allen’s first commercial solo show, Inuit tattoos in art at the NGC and more!
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    New Coco A. Lynge Mural On View in Downtown Toronto

    The eighth mural in Onsite Gallery's Up Front: Inuit Public Art series.
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    News Roundup: The 35th Annual Sámi Grand Prix Is Set for April 2025

    Plus: Kenojuak Ashevak’s blue Enchanted Owl sells for record price, Emily Laurent Henderson’s exhibition catalogue is among the most anticipated spring book releases and more!
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    News Roundup: Inuit Art Wins at the GOG Awards

    Plus: An Inuit art exhibition in Colombia, the Sámi artist who inspired the 2025 Göteborg Film Festival theme and more!
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    News Roundup: GGArts Exhibition Featuring Shuvinai Ashoona Opens at the NGC

    Plus: Natasha Allakariallak’s illustration is featured on Google Doodle, Inuit designers present at Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week and more!
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    News Roundup: MMFA Opens its New Space for Inuit Art

    Plus: A new toonie celebrates Inuit Nunangat, a major Inuit visual arts conference gets underway in Montreal and more!
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    News Roundup: Throat-singing Duo Iva and Angu Win Award at 2024 Pan-ArcticVision

    Plus: Etua Snowball's children's book is shortlisted for a QWF award, new documentary on Inuit perspectives on the mining industry to premiere and more!
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    News Roundup: Qikiqtani Inuit Association Fulfills Remainder of $5 Million Pledge to Build Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre

    Plus: Several exhibitions of Inuit art open across Canada and abroad and more!
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    News Roundup: Helen Iguptak Featured on Annual Truth and Reconciliation Canada Post Stamp

    Plus: Three Inuit artists awarded King Charles III Coronation Medal and more!
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    News Roundup: Kinngait Artists Featured for the Second Time at Gwangju Biennale

    Plus: NFDC gets their first Inuk CEO, APTN launches a new Indigenous languages channel and more.
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    Maureen Gruben Brings Caribou Hoof Mural to Onsite Gallery

    Multidisciplinary Inuvialuk artist incorporates 3D printing and ice into downtown Toronto mural.
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    News Roundup: Beatrice Deer Performs at Aqpik Jam

    Plus: NTI Inuktuuqta! Inuktut writing prize is open for submissions, Inuinnaqtun dictionary app launches and more!
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    News Roundup: Tillitarniit Inuit Arts Festival to Open in Montreal

    Plus: Jimmy Manning’s work on view at the NGC, PIQSIQ performs at one of BC’s biggest music festivals and more!
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    News Roundup: Kablusiak Solo Show on View at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver

    Plus: The Alaska Triennial Opens Submissions and more!
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    News Roundup: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Invited to Join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

    Plus: The Alianait Arts Festival returns to Iqaluit, NU, Eldred Allen gets an artist residency with Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures and more!
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    News Roundup: Deantha Edmunds Wins ArtsNL Artist of the Year Award

    Plus: The CRTC announces funding for the Indigenous Screen Office, Leo Matthew drops new single and more!
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    News Roundup: Elisapie Featured on New Canada Post Stamp

    Plus: Twice Colonized wins at the Canadian Screen Awards, Reneltta Arluk is named a 2024 Library and Archives Canada Scholar and more!
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    Taqralik Partridge Shortlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award

    The multidisciplinary Ottawa-based artist has been shortlisted for the prestigious prize.
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    News Roundup: Dr. Heather Igloliorte Announced as Curator of the Next Bonavista Biennale

    Plus: Michael Massie receives honorary degree from OCAD University, Radical Stitch opens at the National Gallery of Canada and more!
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    News Roundup: William Tagoona to Become a Member of the Order of Arts and Letters of Quebec

    Plus: Red Dress Day exhibition opens in Iqaluit, Telefilm Canada invests in two Inuit-led films, the Sámi Museum Siida wins Museum of the Year Award and more!
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    New Glenn Gear Mural Combines Kaleidoscopic Design with Inuit Culture

    Multidisciplinary artist presents sixth mural in Up Front series at Onsite Gallery
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    News Roundup: Reneltta Arluk to Receive Honorary Doctorate from University of Alberta

    Plus: ICC-Canada launches a digital database, Charlotte Qamaniq releases a new song, Inuit artists are nominated for awards and more!
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    Four Inuit Artists Longlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award

    Four Inuit artists and one Dene artist have been longlisted in the award’s inaugural Circumpolar region.
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    News Roundup: Tate Modern Launches a New Acquisition Fund for Sámi and Inuit Art

    Plus: Three Labrador Inuit are finalists for the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts award, Nicholas Galanin among artists who have won 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships and more!
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    Inuuteq Storch Exhibition Opens in Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

    Photographer becomes the first ever Kalaaleq artist to represent Denmark at the famed art festival.
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    News Roundup: Inuit Nominees at the Canadian Screen Awards

    Plus: a new Indigenous public art project in Ottawa, the nine Arctic Indigenous filmmakers chosen for an international mentorship program, Maureen Gruben’s solo exhibition in Vancouver, and more!
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    Elisapie Wins 2024 Juno Award for Contemporary Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year

    Singer-songwriter Elisapie won a Juno Award for her album Inuktitut (2023).
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    News Roundup: Pikkuminartut Makes Shortlist for Canada Pavilion at 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

    Plus: imagineNATIVE permanently moves its festival to June, asinnajaq’s work on view at the MAC Montréal, and the first big-budget Inuit comedy begins filming in Iqaluit, NU
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    First Arctic European Capital of Culture Opens in Bodø, Norway

    Learn about the opening week celebrations and the programming to come throughout the year, where Sámi arts and culture is to feature prominently.
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    News Roundup: Couzyn van Heuvelen Awarded Artist Prize from the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts

    Plus, designs by Taalrumiq and Haley Edmunds-Shiwak featured in Netflix series, Beatrice Deer launches new podcast and more!
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    Shuvinai Ashoona wins 2024 Governor General’s Award

    Celebrated Kinngait visual artist receives Artistic Achievement Award for decades spent creating Inuit art.
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    News Roundup: Inuit Designers Present Collections at New York Fashion Week

    Plus: Ningiukulu Teevee’s first solo show in Europe, the Sobey Art Award’s new Circumpolar category, winners of the Nunatsiavut Cultural Preservation Awards, and more!
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    News Roundup: Circumpolar Indigenous Artists to Participate in the 2024 Whitney Biennial

    Plus, three Inuit artists selected to participate in the WAG-Qaumajuq artist residency program, Tanya Tagaq set to release children’s book and more!
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    News Roundup: Twice Colonized (2023) Nominated for Documentary of the Year at Danish Film Awards

    Plus, the Inuit actors and music featured in True Detective: Night Country, a Nunavik seamstress wins Artist of the Year, Taqralik Partridge opens two shows in Ontario, and more!
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    Nunatsiavut Comes to Downtown Toronto with New Jessica Winters Mural

    Inuk painter celebrates home in the fifth installment of the Up Front mural series.
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    News Roundup: Anna Lambe to Star in Arctic Comedy Series

    Plus: Deantha Edmunds is appointed to the Order of Canada, Nick Sikkuark retrospective exhibition opens at the NGC and more!
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    News Roundup: Saimaiyu Akesuk Partners with Canada Goose for Miami Pop-up

    Plus: Inuit art highlights from this fall’s major Indigenous art auctions, exhibitions featuring circumpolar Indigenous artists that won GOG awards and more!
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    McMichael Names Emily Laurent Henderson Associate Curator: Indigenous Art and Culture

    The Inuk writer and curator steps into a new role
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    Kablusiak Wins the $100,000 Sobey Art Award

    Multidisciplinary artist becomes the first Inuvialuk ever to win the award.
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    News Roundup: imagineNATIVE Awards 8 Prizes to Circumpolar Indigenous Filmmakers

    Plus: Tanya Tagaq presents annual Eva Holtby program, National Museum of Wildlife Art debuts first exhibition dedicated to Inuit art and more!
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    Your Guide to the Inuit Works at Art Toronto 2023

    An overview of the Inuit work featured at this year’s fair which runs October 26–29.
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