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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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  • Charlotte Qamaniq Taught Thirty People to Throatsing Over Zoom—Here’s What Happened

    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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  • Setting Up Shop (1960-1970)

    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 Art of Stone: Carving

    The places we sculpt
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  • The Art of Stone: Quarry

    The places we find stone
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  • 25+ Ways Inuit Artists Have Historically Used Pantone's Colour of the Year

    Decades before Classic Blue was a trend, Inuit tastemakers took it for a spin.
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  • Notes From the Decade

    What happened to Inuit art over the last decade?
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  • A Year In Review

    Our readers have spoken, and the top ten posts from 2019 are here. Can you guess what made the list?
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  • Surface Tensions

    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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