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Leetia Alivaktuk

Biography

Leetia Alivaktuk is a talented printmaker from Panniqtuuq (Pangnirtung), NU. Leetia debuted with the Pangnirtung Community Print Collection in 2001 and participated again in 2002. In 2002, she participated in a printmaking course offered in Pangnirtung through Nunavut Arctic College, where she acquired knowledge in the techniques of stencil printmaking and linocut.

Her print 'Bowhead Whales Near Pangnirtung' (2018) depicts a pod of whales swimming past a rocky beach. The lines of the water groove with the whales bodies seemingly moving together as a unit as they pass by Panniqtuuq. She has produced a number of drawings for the archives in Pangnirtung since the 1980s. Alivaktuk's prints are part of the 2018 Pangnirtung Print Collection.

Artist Work

About Leetia Alivaktuk

Medium:

Graphic Arts

Artistic Community:

Panniqtuuq, Nunavut, 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.

1949
Publication

Panniqtuuq Releases First Major Print Collection Since 2011, 2018

Achievement

2018 Pangnirtung Print Collection, 2018