With the collapse of the fur trade during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Inuit families throughout the Canadian Arctic had to abandon their nomadic traditions, more to towns, and learn ...

Four regions, across four thousand kilometres. And one building to bring them together. That’s the ambitious promise of the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Inuit Art Centre, which officially broke ground on ...

A sculpture by an unknown artist showing the legend of The Weasel and the Caribou sold for $69,000 on Tuesday evening at Waddington's auction of Inuit art. A Kivalliq soapstone sold for $69,000, ...

The phrase "Inuit art" usually conjures up images such as soapstone sculptures of seals and bears, carved whale bone or antler, or perhaps the Baker Lake prints. SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from ...

A new piece of permanent artwork, commissioned by the Manitoba Teachers’ Society (MTS), has been unveiled at the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s new Inuit art centre. The marble sculpture, by Inuit artist ...

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 ...

The 1950s and ‘60s were a time of major change for the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. “People were more and more moving from their nomadic camp lifestyles into communities,” explains Maija Lutz, the ...

Amidst the bustle of a Toronto gallery preview of her new work, artist Shuvinai Ashoona takes a moment to recall how she started. It was about 30 years ago, at her younger sister’s house in Cape ...

A sculpture of an Inuit soccer player carved out of a 26-ton block of granite was unveiled at York University Tuesday, June 21 to mark National Aboriginal Day. The sculpture, titled Ahqahizu, shows ...

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