I: Arctic traditions -- Shamanistic traditions -- Dorset and Thule traditions in Canada -- II: Historic Inuit art -- Western aesthetics and Inuit art -- Interviews with Inuit artists -- Art by Nicola ...
Spanning from Alaska through the circumpolar regions of Canada, to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life invites meditations on the rhythms of life particular to these ...
still show evidence of a deep-rooted past. These indigenous Arctic people have inhabited the icy regions, spreading from Siberia eastward across Alaska and northern Canada to Greenland, for thousands ...
Separated by thousands of miles and vastly different climates, there is common ground between the people of south Louisiana and those native to northern Canada. "The Inuit people were very much like ...
This fall, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s Native art collection — once consigned to a far corner — will be front and center in a new show. By Christy Choi In a fast-paced world, asinnajaq likes to ...
A new museum for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leading collection of Inuit art opens on Saturday in a project shaped by Inuit. By Ian Austen Winnipeg sits far from the territory of the Inuit. But the ...
Long before John Cabot or Christopher Columbus braved the Atlantic Ocean, Northern civilizations were actively trading and interacting between Greenland and Scandinavia. That’s the driving theme of ...
Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...
In the midst of a long brutal winter, it’s good to remember that beauty can be found in frozen places. The work of art that Tim and Joy Reade recently brought to a Trash or Treasure appraisal held at ...
Imagine growing up with just your grandmother in an Arctic wilderness so isolated you didn't actually know there was anyone else in the world. This was the case for Irene Avalaaqiaq, the artist who ...
In a small second-floor space at the Art Gallery of Ontario, staff have organized an exhibition of works by Surusilutu Ashoona. It’s the first time the Inuit artist, who died in 2011, has ever been ...