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Deantha Edmunds on 5 of her Most Iconic Musical Performances
Learn more about the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted classical singer’s work.
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Manasie Akpaliapik Through 5 Works
Learn about the 2023 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award longlisted artist.
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The Expansive Work of Couzyn van Heuvelen
How working in public space and connecting with his audiences is fuelling this artist’s growth.
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The Spirited Storytelling of Ningiukulu Teevee
The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist shares her many sources of inspiration.
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Gloria Putumiraqtuq Takes Pride in the Strength of Her Culture
How the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted textile artist passes on knowledge across generations.
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Kablusiak Gives Themself Permission to Play
The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist celebrates Inuit artistic legacies in their work, while evading colonial expectations of contemporary Inuit representation.
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How Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona Builds Connection
Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted artist Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona commands many mediums, with her family featuring strongly in her practice.
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Making Space For Maureen Gruben’s Artistic Ambitions
A textile, installation and performance artist on her growing career—and what she dreams of next.
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Behind the Immersive Animations of Glenn Gear
For the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted new media artist, creating is as fundamental as breathing.
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How Chance Encounters Inspire Billy Gauthier’s Carvings
The Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted sculptor channels experiences on the land into his intricate works.
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Deantha Edmunds on Music, Writing, Teaching and Uplifting Others
How the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award–longlisted classical singer enriches her practice by celebrating the different parts of herself.
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How Sculptor Manasie Akpaliapik Pushes Himself
In a career spanning more than 45 years, Manasie Akpaliapik’s focus remains on improving his craft.
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David Ruben Piqtoukun Through 5 Works of Art
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Inuit Artists Inspired by Kenojuak Ashevak
How an Inuit art icon inspired 7 artists across generations and regions.
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Your Guide to Inuit Art in 2023
Inuit artists are in the spotlight with exhibitions, books and other exciting new initiatives!
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Susan Aglukark's Mission to Share Stories and Correct Narratives Through Art
The beloved Nunavut singer-songwriter ends 2022 with a new album, a kids’ book and an award celebrating her humanitarian efforts.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What are the Earliest Inuit Prints?
How did prints by one Inuk get published in the South in 1915?
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How to Strip an Archive of Cultural Insensitivity
10 Inuit archival photographs given new names and context.
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How Deantha Edmunds is Decolonizing Opera
World’s first Inuk opera singer says classical music is for everyone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Sámi Pavilion at the Venice Biennale: Then and Now
How the Nordic Pavilion became the Sámi Pavilion
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10 Inuit Sealskin Designers to Watch
Eat seal, wear seal!
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100 Unidentified Embroideries
Journeying to Nunatsiavut in search of answers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kablusiak Subverts Inuit Art With Camp and Silliness
How Kablusiak dismantles the way we are pushed to perceive Inuit art.
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7 More Jewellers Whose Work You Should Covet
Because you can never have enough jewellery.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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5 Superb Sled Dog Portraits
The top dogs of Inuit art.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10 of Your Favourite Stories from 2021
The stories you loved, all wrapped up in a bow.
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10 Nunatsiavut Artists to Know
Explore the breadth of art-making in Nunatsiavut
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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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