Four Inuit artists and one Dene artist have been longlisted in the award’s inaugural Circumpolar region.

Plus: Three Labrador Inuit are finalists for the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts award, Nicholas Galanin among artists who have won 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships and more!

Photographer becomes the first ever Kalaaleq artist to represent Denmark at the famed art festival.

Plus: a new Indigenous public art project in Ottawa, the nine Arctic Indigenous filmmakers chosen for an international mentorship program, Maureen Gruben’s solo exhibition in Vancouver, and more!

Singer-songwriter Elisapie won a Juno Award for her album Inuktitut (2023).

Plus: imagineNATIVE permanently moves its festival to June, asinnajaq’s work on view at the MAC Montréal, and the first big-budget Inuit comedy begins filming in Iqaluit, NU

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa, ON, has made history by having the most Inuit-staffed department of a gallery in Southern Canada.

Learn about the opening week celebrations and the programming to come throughout the year, where Sámi arts and culture is to feature prominently.

Plus, designs by Taalrumiq and Haley Edmunds-Shiwak featured in Netflix series, Beatrice Deer launches new podcast and more!

Celebrated Kinngait visual artist receives Artistic Achievement Award for decades spent creating Inuit art.

Plus: Ningiukulu Teevee’s first solo show in Europe, the Sobey Art Award’s new Circumpolar category, winners of the Nunatsiavut Cultural Preservation Awards, and more!

Plus, three Inuit artists selected to participate in the WAG-Qaumajuq artist residency program, Tanya Tagaq set to release children’s book and more!

Plus, the Inuit actors and music featured in True Detective: Night Country, a Nunavik seamstress wins Artist of the Year, Taqralik Partridge opens two shows in Ontario, and more!

Inuk painter celebrates home in the fifth installment of the Up Front mural series.

Plus: Deantha Edmunds is appointed to the Order of Canada, Nick Sikkuark retrospective exhibition opens at the NGC and more!

With exciting exhibitions, widespread installations and a surplus of festivals to follow, you won’t want to miss the events coming this year.

Artists' year-end reflections and their hopes for the new year.

Plus: Inuit art highlights from this fall’s major Indigenous art auctions, exhibitions featuring circumpolar Indigenous artists that won GOG awards and more!

The Inuk writer and curator steps into a new role

Three winners of the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award, Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory (2019), Tarralik Duffy (2021) and Ningiukulu Teevee (2023), discuss the impact of the prize on their lives and practices.

Multidisciplinary artist becomes the first Inuvialuk ever to win the award.

Plus: Tanya Tagaq presents annual Eva Holtby program, National Museum of Wildlife Art debuts first exhibition dedicated to Inuit art and more!

Beyond the rousing musical and theatrical performances, the inspiring political messages behind the Inuit Circumpolar Jam 1983 still resonate today.

Artists reflect on the impact of hearing classic rock and pop songs adapted into Inuktitut.

An overview of the Inuit work featured at this year’s fair which runs October 26–29.

Plus: MMFA doubling Inuit floorspace, Sobey exhibition opens with Kablusiak and more!

The actor and director opens up about the writing process, her next project and the importance of support.

Content from creators like Lucy Tulugarjuk, Tarralik Duffy and Megan Kyak-Monteith populates the programming at this year’s festival.

How the ease and individuality of this medium is helping a new generation of Inuit artists make their mark.

The activist from Finland explores how art can play a part in protecting the environment.

Plus: New cultural campus coming to Iqaluktuuttiaq, record attendance for Bonavista Biennale and more!

The Anchorage, AK-based artist interested in Inuit sovereignty, decolonization and climate change.

Fourth mural in the Up Front Series helmed by Salliq, NU, artist, recontextualizes the foodstuff of her childhood.

Kinngait graphic artist becomes third winner of the IAF’s $20,000 prize, plus solo exhibition and residency at WAG-Qaumajuq.

A photo essay that offers a glimpse into the world of the sculptor and his iconic Gjoa-Haven style.

Plus: Maata Kyak at New York Fashion Week, new children’s book by Etua Snowball and more!

The many shifting forms of expression by the fashion designer based in Sheet’ká, Alaska.

WAG-Qaumajuq’s Assistant Curator Marie-Anne Redhead on the process behind the first-ever exhibition of finalists for the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award.

If you missed the live conversation, check out the video recording to hear Ningiukulu Teevee discuss her creative process and love of storytelling.

More on the writer, curator and contemporary conceptual artist from Jokkmokk, Sweden.

An insider’s look at the history of how Inuit document their homes, dwellings and studios.

New films from Inuit Nunangat to Sápmi debut to international audiences

If you missed the live conversation, check out the video recording to hear Kablusiak discuss their creative practice and subverting expectations of Inuit art.

How the Iñupiaq and Athabascan artist reveals the cultural histories embedded in material.

A look at the colourful collages by the graphic designer from Nuuk, Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).

If you missed the live conversation, check out the video recording to hear Kabloona discuss her journey so far as an emerging artist.

How northern Indigenous artists are using site-specific projects as an act of reclamation.

How northern Indigenous artists are using site-specific projects as an act of reclamation.

If you missed the live conversation, check out the video recording to hear Gruben discuss creating art on the land and gathering stories as part of her practice.