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  • MoorhouseShirleyToHonourTheFirekeepers
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    The 9 Inuit Art Moments You Need to Know: 2022 Edition

    What were 2022’s most notable events in the Inuit art world?
  • CharliePanigoniakAndLornaTasseorNWTArchives
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    How Inuktitut Music Took Over Northern Airwaves

    The legacy and lasting impact of the CBC North recording sessions.
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    What Happens When You Put Inuit Art on a Global Stage?

    How Inuit art at Expo 67 shaped perceptions of Inuit art and artists then and now.
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    Presenting Cultural Identity Through Traditional Clothing

    How the gift of a Greenlandic annoraaq connected Jonas Henderson to his culture.
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    Bridging the Distance Between the Arctic and the Amazon

    A cross-Americas exhibition at the Power Plant illuminates the commonalities between Indigenous artists, their relationships to the land and desire for ancestral knowledge.
  • Abraham Anghik Ruben - The Last Goodbye - Soapstone
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    Three Inuit Artworks to Reflect On for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

    This September 30, we invite you to spend time with and amplify the voices of Indigenous artists.
  • Labrador Inuit Association Meets Bill Rompkey
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    The Intertwined History Of Politics And Art in Nunatsiavut

    Yet in spite of the lack of an enduring arts industry, a cooperative system, institutional support or scholarly interest, Nunatsiavut continues to produce such exceptional artists as Michael Massie, John Terriak and Heather Campbell.
  • Annie Pootoogook - Making Love
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    Soft Shapes and Hard Mattresses

    Despite the fact that love and sex in the Canadian Arctic is not new, images of erotic scenes have rarely graced the pages of the IAQ. Here, we push past voyeuristic taboos to bring us into the pulse of recent erotic Inuit art.
  • Nungusuituq - A Boat, Kayaks, and Dogs
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    What are the Earliest Inuit Prints?

    How did prints by one Inuk get published in the South in 1915?
  • Terry Ryan, Sheouak Petaulassie with a child, and a woman at West Baffin Co-operative, Kinngait, Nunavut.
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    How to Strip an Archive of Cultural Insensitivity

    10 Inuit archival photographs given new names and context.
  • Deantha Edmunds Messiah/Complex - Photo by Justin Oakey
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    How Deantha Edmunds is Decolonizing Opera

    World’s first Inuk opera singer says classical music is for everyone.
  • CEAC Portfolio
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    What Gets Lost

    The CEAC spent decades moderating the sale of Inuit art to southern audiences by prohibiting works deemed unacceptable from entering the market. We examine what works were rejected and why.
  • Lizzie Ittinuar Beaded Amauti
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    Glass Beads in Inuit Needlework From Past to Present

    A trip to the glassworks in Murano, Italy, reveals the links between Inuit and Venetians.
  • Nuvuja9 Caribou antler earrings, beaded necklace, sealskin shawl and sweetheart top with seal leather skirt
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    11 Inuit Designers to see at the Indigenous Fashion Arts Festival

    Catch Inuit talent at the marketplace and on the runways.
  • Sami Pavilion - 2022
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    The Sámi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Then and Now

    How the Nordic Pavilion became the Sámi Pavilion
  • Neevie Simigak - Moon Shaped Sealskin Earrings
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    10 Inuit Sealskin Designers to Watch

    Eat seal, wear seal!
  • Unidentified Tablecloth Polar Bear Hunt
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    100 Unidentified Embroideries

    Journeying to Nunatsiavut in search of answers.
  • Darcie Bernhardt Silla + Rise “Pandemonium”
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    Get to Know Darcie Bernhardt in 5 Works of Art

    The Inuvialuk painter shares some of the memories and inspiration behind their favourite artworks.
  • Pick Me Up and Turn Me Round
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    We’re Celebrating Siblings Day with a Comic!

    This Sunday, April 10, is National Siblings Day, and we’re commemorating it with a comic about the love between siblings.
  • Ningiukulu Teevee - Owl and Friend
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    Get to Know Ookpik Through 5 Inuit Artists

    Take a closer look at how artists bring the iconic sealskin owl doll to life.
  • Kablusiak - Furby Ookpik
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    Kablusiak Subverts Inuit Art With Camp and Silliness

    How Kablusiak dismantles the way we are pushed to perceive Inuit art.
  • Caroline Blechert Fireweed headband/bracelet
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    7 More Jewellers Whose Work You Should Covet

    Because you can never have enough jewellery.
  • Lucassie - Recognition
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    Polar Bears in Print

    Totally polar-izing? Find out how Inuit artists have used prints to depict the arctic's apex predator.
  • Zebede Evaluardjuk-Fournier - See Me After Class
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    What DO Inuit Use Their Ulus For?

    Jamesie Fournier’s humorous short story recounts an instance where cultural change got lost in translation.
  • Kenojuak Ashevak - Love Birds
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    Your Love Song Playlist: 10 Amorous Inuit Tunes

    Celebrate Valentine’s day with a host of love-themed Inuit musical numbers!
  • Ruth Annaqtuusi Tulurialik - Happy Hearts
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    7 Romantic Inuit Artworks for Valentine’s Day

    All of the hearts, flowers and candy to make your heart skip a beat.
  • Holly Andersen Untitled (2018) Digital Photograph
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    5 Superb Sled Dog Portraits

    The top dogs of Inuit art.
  • Achieving a Dream - Tapestry - 2010
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    How 10 Inuit Artists Came Together to Weave an Olympic Tapestry

    Behind the scenes at the Pangnirtung Tapestry Studio in preparation for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games.
  • Silla and Rise - Tulukkat
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    The Story Behind the Silla and Rise Song “Tulukkat”

    Charlotte Qamaniq shares the personal inspiration behind the band’s new track.
  • Alberta Rose Ingniq Taimunga
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    15 Ways Pantone’s 2022 Colour of the Year Appears in Inuit Art

    Looking to the future with a brand new shade: Very Peri.
  • Melodie Sammurtok-Lavallée’s paintings of her ivory combs on her bedroom walls
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    Accessing Ancestral Ways Of Being, Knowing And Creating Through Art

    Melodie Sammurtok-Lavallée reflects on Inuit identity, history and aesthetics through the process of creating.
  • Aoudla Pudlat Flaming Bird (1982)
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    10 of Your Favourite Stories from 2021

    The stories you loved, all wrapped up in a bow.
  • Echo Henoche - Shaman
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    10 Nunatsiavut Artists to Know

    Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunatsiavut
  • Gabai Kaludjak - Aujaq amaut,Spring/Summer 2021 Piruqsiaq Amautiga Collection
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    How Sewing Sustains Inuit Seamstresses through Generations

    Ujarak Appadoo explores how amautiit-making in Arviat has changed over the years.
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    Learning the Disappearing Art of Black-bottomed Sealskin Boots

    Vanessa Flowers and Veronica Flowers carry on their grandmother’s legacy.
  • FBCrop_OonarkJessieTattooedFaces
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    How Jessie Oonark Turned Qamani’tuaq Into a Hub for Inuit Art

    The beginnings of the Baker Lake Sanavik Co-operative.
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    7 Bone-Rattling Works of Skeleton Art

    We’re bringing you skulls this spooky season.
  • KalvakHelenSealskinsToDry
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    What Can Be Learned From the First Generation of Holman Artists?

    A look into Helen Kalvak’s contributions to the Ulukhaktok co-operative movement.
  • SnowballJeannieOokpik
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    What Did Ookpik Dolls Have to Do With Kuujjuaq’s Co-op Movement?

    How Jeannie Snowball’s iconic owl helped to sustain the Nunavik artist co-operative.
  • FBCrop_QumalukLeviMotherAndChildInHerAmautiq
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    How Inuit Artists Came Together to Establish Nunavik’s First Co-op

    Levi Qumaluk, Aisa Qoperqualu, Charlie Sivuarapik and Peter Amautik’s legacy in Puvirnituq.
  • KabloonaGayleUyagaqiMalinaFBCrop
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    How I Choose to Carry on My Family’s Artistic Legacy

    Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona examines her grandmother Victoria Mamnguqsualuk’s art.
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    4 Must-See Films at imagineNATIVE 2021

    Our editors’ top picks from the world’s largest Indigenous media arts festival.
  • PootoogookKananginakTwoSeaPigeons
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    How Did Kananginak Pootoogook Help Open Kinngait’s First Print Shop?

    A brief history of West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative’s early days.
  • FBCrop_InnaaruulikTanya_OrangeShirtDay2021
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    5 Inuit Artists to Support on Orange Shirt Day

    Buy from Indigenous Creators on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
  • Kablusiakthingsthatbotharelativeyouhaventseeninalongtimeandtherivercouldsay_iheldyouwhenyouweresmall
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    5 Places to Find Public Inuit Art

    Must-see artworks to visit across Canada.
  • detail_AnguhadluqLukeShamanEnteringtheDrumDance
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    Inuit Print Gives a Glimpse into Shaman’s Performance

    Luke Anguhadluq draws us into the iglu to watch a drum dance.
  • AupilardjukPierreFriendsSharingGossip
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    5 Friendly Inuit Artworks to Send to Your BFF

    Artworks that celebrate friendship, kindness and connection.
  • AdamsBrianMyFatherRonAdams
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    Building a Photographic Community in a Lockdown?

    What keeps Inupiaq artist Brian Adams looking to the future.
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    Meet the 4 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award Shortlisted Artists

    Inuit artists Eldred Allen, Tarralik Duffy, Kablusiak and Couzyn van Heuvelen in the running for $10,000 prize.
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    Processing Change in a Pandemic Using Photography

    How Inuk artist Jennie Williams adapted her practice to document family life indoors.
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