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Karlyn Blake

Karlyn Blake
Artist

Biography

Inspired at age 10 to experiment with beads after receiving some as a gift from a relative, jeweller Karlyn Blake now creates and sells intricately beaded earrings under the label Designs by Karjoy. She sells largely online, and her work has been featured in Tusaayaksat magazine. Among her most inventive designs incorporate moosehide, beadwork and discharged bullets used by her husband on his hunting trips, which she then filed down.

Outside of jewellery-making, Blake has begun making moccasins and slippers. Her work has been admired and purchased via Instagram across Canada and the world.



This Profile was made possible through support from the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artists Project.

Artist Work

About Karlyn Blake

Medium:

Jewellery

Artistic Community:

Aklarvik, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Inuit Nunangat

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.

1993