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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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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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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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10 of Your Favourite Stories from 2021
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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