Longtime Inuit art collectors Judith and Robert Toll have given the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum a major gift of contemporary Canadian Inuit art. The Tolls describe their donation as “fifty Inuit ...
In a Toronto studio, familiar images of fanciful owls, Arctic terns and polar bears rotate gently, each one moving toward its moment under two big strobe lights and a digital camera. As a giant ...
2006-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Cape Dorset, Nunavut-- It's a sunny spring day, and some of Canada's best artists are sending up smoke signals all over a tiny town at the southwestern end of Baffin Island.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. What I found out talking to Kardosh was it’s rare for an Inuit artist to ...
Issued also in French under title: Estampes inuites, inspiration japonaise. "This book was released in conjunction with the travelling exhibition ... which was produced by the Canadian Museum of ...
Tuuliruaq (Great Big Loon), a stonecut stencil by Mayoreak Ashoona, of Cape Dorset, is one of more than 500 prints created in the last 15 years purchased by the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
In a Toronto studio more than 2,000 kilometres from his home, Cape Dorset artist Quvianaqtuk Pudlat smiles with pleasure as a printer lifts the arm of a large press to reveal an image of two Arctic ...
Print making is a commercial art form that was introduced to the Inuit in the late 1950s, but adapts and builds upon a strong graphic tradition that reaches back over a thousand years. For centuries ...
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The Inuit Artists' Print database assembles information on 8,000 prints produced by Canadian Inuit artits from 1957 to the present. The information derives from the inspection of prints in many ...
I’ve just received the sad news about the death of Kananginak Pootoogook, one the country’s leading Inuit artists. Earlier this year, Marion Scott Gallery held an exhibition of Pootoogook’s work that ...