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Germaine
Arnaktauyok
Photo: Germaine Arnaktauyok
Credit: The Inuit Art Foundation
Germaine
Arnaktauyok
Medium:
drawing, painting, printmaking
Artistic Community:
Yellowknife, NT
Date of Birth:
Artists may have multiple birth years listed as a result of when and where they were born. For example, an artist born in the early twentieth century in a camp outside of a community centre may not know/have known their exact date of birth and identified different years.
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.
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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
Edit History
December 14, 2017
Created by: Dominique Bourassa Updated by: Lera Kotsyuba
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