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  • ᐊᓯᔾᔨᖅᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᓕᐅᖅᐸᖕᓂᖏᑦ

    ᓯᓚᑦᑐᖅᓴᕐᕕᖕᒥ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᓯᒪᔫᒃ ᒪᐃᓚ ᓯᐅᓗᒃ ᔭᐃᑲᑉᓴᓐ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑯᕆᔅᑕ ᐅᓗᔪᒃ ᔭᑦᐅᐊᔅᓯᑭᒃᑯᒃ ᑕᐅᑐᖅᑰᖅᑕᒥᓂᒃ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᖅᐳᒃ ᓴᖅᑭᑕᐅᒃᑲᓐᓂᓕᖅᑐᓂᒃ.
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    ᓴᖅᑭᑉᐸᓪᓕᐊᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᓕᐅᖅᑎᑦ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᓕᕆᔪᑦ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᖃᖅᐳᑦ ᑲᑭᓂᕐᓂᒃ ᐊᒻᒪ ᑐᓐᓂᕐᓂᒃ.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Manasie Akpaliapik Through 5 Works

    Learn about the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award longlisted artist.
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  • 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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  • The Spirited Storytelling of Ningiukulu Teevee

    The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist shares her many sources of inspiration.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • What are the Earliest Inuit Prints?

    How did prints by one Inuk get published in the South in 1915?
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  • How to Strip an Archive of Cultural Insensitivity

    10 Inuit archival photographs given new names and context.
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  • How Deantha Edmunds is Decolonizing Opera

    World’s first Inuk opera singer says classical music is for everyone.
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  • 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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    A trip to the glassworks in Murano, Italy, reveals the links between Inuit and Venetians.
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  • 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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  • The Sámi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Then and Now

    How the Nordic Pavilion became the Sámi Pavilion
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  • 10 Inuit Sealskin Designers to Watch

    Eat seal, wear seal!
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  • 100 Unidentified Embroideries

    Journeying to Nunatsiavut in search of answers.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 Subverts Inuit Art With Camp and Silliness

    How Kablusiak dismantles the way we are pushed to perceive Inuit art.
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  • 7 More Jewellers Whose Work You Should Covet

    Because you can never have enough jewellery.
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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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  • 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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  • 5 Superb Sled Dog Portraits

    The top dogs of Inuit art.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    The stories you loved, all wrapped up in a bow.
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  • 10 Nunatsiavut Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunatsiavut
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  • How Sewing Sustains Inuit Seamstresses Through Generations

    Ujarak Appadoo explores how amautiit-making in Arviat has changed over the years.
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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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  • 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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  • 4 Must-See Films at imagineNATIVE 2021

    Our editors’ top picks from the world’s largest Indigenous media arts festival.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 8 Captivating Caribou Creations in Inuit Art

    Tuktu—the animal near and deer to our hearts.
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  • 8 Arctic Landscapes by Inuit Artists

    Views of the North from those who inhabit it.
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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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  • 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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  • 7 Seriously Stellar Seals in Inuit Art

    These artworks get our seal of approval!
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • How Inuit Artists Have Used Pantone’s 2021 Colours of the Year

    Illuminating Ultimate Grey through the works of artists from across Inuit Nunangat.
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  • 7 Stories You May Have Missed

    The under-the-radar stories of 2020.
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  • 11 of Your Favourite Stories From This Year

    The stories you loved, all wrapped up in a bow.
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  • What Inuit Artists Are Grateful For In 2020

    5 creators on the positives of the past year.
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  • 6 Whiskered Walrus Works

    Wondrous ways to depict the massive marine mammal.
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  • Creating From Both Sides of the Canada-US Border During COVID-19

    Maureen Gruben and Sonya Kelliher-Combs undertake a reciprocal artist exchange from home.
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  • 6 of Karoo Ashevak’s Sculptures Speak

    This month’s comic gives Ashevak’s art its own voices.
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  • Shiwak to Sikoak: Taking Back My True Surname

    A graphic artist refutes the colonial imposition on their identity.
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  • 10 Nunavik Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunavik.
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  • BIG MAN or I Will Learn to Hunt

    Jordan Angunayuak Carpenter wrestles with the ramifications of his own name.
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  • Uquutaq

    An artist reacts to those who mispronounce her name.
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  • 6 Panels That Prove Tivi Etook’s Genius

    Napatsi Folger celebrates the monstrous creatures of Tivi Etook.
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  • What’s in a Name?

    An Inuk graphic artist explores her relationship to her namesakes through comics.
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  • What Every Young Inuit Writer Needs to Know

    One writer’s letter to her younger self.
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  • 9 Hunting and Fishing Artworks That Will Reel You In

    True tributes to time out on the land.
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  • Pudlo Pudlat

    Our Contributing Editor explore a more personal connection to art in this month’s comic featuring Pudlo Pudlat
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  • Watching Arctic Animals Hunt from Above

    Two drone photographers critique one another’s work.
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  • Watching the Spring Breakup from Overhead

    Two drone photographers critique one another’s work.
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  • How Sea Ice Dots Aerials Landscapes

    Two drone photographers critique one another’s work.
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  • 10 Buzzy Mosquito Artworks

    Insect inspiration for World Mosquito Day.
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  • What Marine Mammals Look Like From Above

    Two drone photographers critique one another’s work.
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  • How a River Forms from a Drone’s Point of View

    Two photographers critique one another’s work.
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  • Jessie Oonark

    Her iconic style mingles with the stick figures of our Contributing Editor in this month’s Inuit art comic.
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  • 30 Ways To Describe An Owl According to Kenojuak Ashevak

    Kenojuak Ashevak depicted many owls throughout her career, naming each with a unique descriptor. Here, we take a closer look at thirty of her avian adjectives.
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  • Keeping Up with the Ceramic Artists of Kangiqliniq

    Who works the clay of the Kivalliq region?
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  • What Makes the Sculpture of Arviat Different?

    Investigating the minimalism and austerity of Arviat carvings.
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  • How Do You Sculpt a Wave?

    6 Inuit artists take on water at the surface.
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  • How Do You Show the Water Below?

    6 Inuit artists take on water in the deep.
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  • How Do You Illustrate Water?

    6 Inuit artists take on water at the shore.
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  • Joe Tallirunili

    Joe Tallirunili’s iconic carvings and prints reimagined get reimagined in watercolour by our Contributing Editor.
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  • How Has Printmaking Evolved at Kinngait Studios in the Last Sixty Years?

    Investigating the printmakers in Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU.
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  • Uvanga/Self

    What does self-portraiture mean for an Inuit artist?
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  • From Plastic Teeth to Soap Stripes

    How have Inuit artists approached inlay?
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  • Where Do We Go From Here?

    After nearly five decades of creating, Abraham Anghik Ruben asks what’s next for Inuit art.
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  • How Art Brought About an Apology for High Arctic Relocations

    Statues in Ausuittuq (Grise Fiord), NU, and Qausuittuq (Resolute Bay), NU, search for justice.
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  • The History of Sealskin Stencils

    Sealskin + toothbrush = fine art print?
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  • Inuit Art is a Marker of Cultural Resilience

    Preventing cultural ties from being severed and documenting past attempts to do so.
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  • Helen Kalvak

    Helen Kalvak’s life gets a comic strip makeover from our Contributing Editor.
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  • All the Wallhangings We Couldn't Bring You in Threads

    Nine pieces that didn't make it into the print magazine.
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  • The Traditional Knowledge Hidden in Qamani’tuaq’s Wallhangings

    What records have been stitched into the wool duffel of Baker Lake?
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  • Kenojuak Ashevak

    Kenojuak Ashevak’s life gets a cartoon makeover from our Contributing Editor.
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    The award-winning artist talks about the perks and pitfalls of her online workshops.
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  • The Tides That Bind

    Unseen currents connect us all.
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  • The Tapestries of Uqqurmiut

    50 years of innovation in 31 woven works.
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  • Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts | Uqqurmiut Sanaugaqaqvik

    The legacy continues.
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  • Artists and Weavers

    What does it take to weave a 60-inch tapestry?
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  • Marketing the Tapestries

    How did they go from blankets to tapestries?
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    Where it all began.
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  • Access to Stone

    The politics of carving in Nunatsiavut.
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  • 10 Pieces of Ursine Ephemera

    Literally all things polar bear.
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  • The Art of Stone: Co-op

    The places we sell
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    The places we sculpt
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    The places we find stone
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    Decades before Classic Blue was a trend, Inuit tastemakers took it for a spin.
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    What happened to Inuit art over the last decade?
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    Our readers have spoken, and the top ten posts from 2019 are here. Can you guess what made the list?
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    Britt Gallpen traces the work of three circumpolar Indigenous artists spanning the Global North and examines the political, cultural and aesthetic impact of their use of organic materials.
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  • Isuma: 58th International Art Exhibition/La Biennale di Venezia

    At the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale, Isuma represented Canada—the first time Inuit artists have done so in the history of the national pavilion. Reneltta Arluk reviews the installation.
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  • Ulukhaktok

    Lisa Alikamik looks at the metamorphosis of printmaking in Ulukhaktok (formerly Holman), Invialuit Settlement Region, NT, from wall art to household good.
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  • SAKKIJÂJUK

    SakKijâjuk is the first nationally touring exhibition of Inuit art from Nunatsiavut. Jennifer McVeigh reviews what is a thoughtful, multifaceted exhibition on a wide variety of creative practices.
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  • Nain

    Tobey Andersen traces printmaking's elusive history in Nain, Nunatsiavut, NL, from its beginnings in 1976 to the present day.
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  • Inukjuak

    Janice Grey opens the archives of la Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec and examines works from the early printmakers of Inukjuak, Nunavik, QC.
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  • Kinngait

    Nakasuk Alariaq relates the history of celebrated artist and shaman Kiakshuk, whose prints are among the earliest to come out of Kinngait (Cape Dorset), NU.
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  • From an Inuk Point of View

    Reflecting on a trip North in the early 1990s, a curator and writer delves into Isuma’s legacy, their presentation of time and what the collective’s work means for us all.
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  • Remembering Our Ways

    Iglulik-based collectives Isuma and Arnait Video Productions harness the power of film to retain, recall and preserve collective memory, significantly contributing to the revitalization of culture and language.
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  • Fast Runners and Time Travellers

    Containing never before seen recordings, interviews, documentation and over 20 years of raw footage, what questions are raised after visiting the archive of Igloolik Isuma Productions housed at the National Gallery of Canada?
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  • Indigenous Art on a Global Stage

    What are the implications in having Isuma, a community-based, principally Inuktitut language video art collective based in Iglulik, NU, represent Canada at arguably the world’s most visible and scrutinized international art event?
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  • The Canadian Pavilion in Venice

    On the cusp of the 58th Venice Biennale and on the occasion of a recently renovated Canada Pavilion, we take a look at the history of the international exhibition, Canada’s national pavilion and what these platforms mean for us today.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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