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Germaine
Arnaktauyok

Photo: Germaine Arnaktauyok
Credit: The Inuit Art Foundation

Medium:

drawing, painting, printmaking

Artistic Community:

Yellowknife, NT

Date of Birth:

Iglulik, NU
1946

Work

Germaine Arnaktauyok (Yellowknife) First Light

Credit: Waddington's

Biography

Germaine Arnaktauyok is an accomplished artist and writer, based in Yellowknife, NT. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba, Commercial Art and Fine Craft at Algonquin College as well as Printmaking at Arctic College in Nunavut. In her work, Arnaktauyok focuses primarily on Inuit myths, stories and feminist narratives centred on birth and motherhood. She has illustrated and written several books, including illustrating the recently published "Takannaaluk" released in spring 2018.View Long Biography and Citations

Publications

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Title	Year	Author
Iqaluit celebrates Inuit women’s tattoo culture at Piujut Arnaqsiutit	February 19, 2020	Lisa Milosavljevic
Spacetime	Spring 2019	Canadian Art Foundation
Tattooed Skin	Summer 2018	Ashley McClellan

Exhibitions

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Name	Year	Gallery
Piujut Arnaqsiutit	February - May 2020	Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum
Germaine Arnaktauyok: Retrospective Of Works 1993-2010	July - Aug 2014	Craft Ontario
Combs of Our Ancestors	2009	Museum of Inuit Art

Achievements

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Achievement	Year	Organization
Cover of the Inuit Art Quarterly	2010	Inuit Art Foundation

Filmography

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Title	Release Date	Role
The Owl and the Raven: an Eskimo Legend	1973	Puppet Design

Public Collections

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Collection	Location
Canada Council Art Bank	Ottawa, ON, Canada
Glenbow Museum	Calgary, AB, Canada
Indigenous Art Collection at Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada	Gatineau, QC, Canada

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December 14, 2017

Created by: Dominique Bourassa Updated by: Lera Kotsyuba

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