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 ...
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Walruses appear frequently in the folklore of the Inuit people, who have inhabited Northern Canada, Greenland, and Alaska for thousands of years. Their tales are full of heroes who travel by canoe to ...
Longtime Inuit art collectors Judith and Robert Toll have given the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum a major gift of contemporary Canadian Inuit art. The Tolls describe their donation as “fifty Inuit ...
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 ...
In the midst of a long brutal winter, it’s good to remember that beauty can be found in frozen places. The work of art that Tim and Joy Reade recently brought to a Trash or Treasure appraisal held at ...
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 ...
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Visitors to the Art Gallery of Windsor this fall will get a rare look into the distinctive artistic talents of the Inuit communities of northern Labrador. AGW is the only Ontario stop and the final ...
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The question of authenticity in Inuit art is a complicated one, and I found myself grappling with it as I took in the current show of Annie Pootoogook's drawings at the Power Plant Contemporary Art ...