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Kenojuak Ashevak, CC ONu RCA (Inuktitut: ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ, Qinnuajuaq Aasivak), (October 3, 1927 – January 8, 2013) was a Canadian Inuk artist. She is celebrated [3] as a leading figure of modern Inuit art and one of Canada's preeminent artists and cultural icons. [4] Part of a pioneering generation of Arctic creators, her ...
Karoo Ashevak (Inuktitut: ᑲᕈ ᐊᓴᕙ) (1940 – October 19, 1974) was an Inuk sculptor who lived a nomadic hunting life in the Kitikmeot Region of the central Arctic before moving into Spence Bay, Northwest Territories (now Taloyoak, Nunavut) in 1960. [1] His career as an artist started in 1968 by participating in a government-funded ...
Kakiniit (Inuktitut: ᑲᑭᓐᓃᑦ [kɐ.ki.niːt]; sing. kakiniq, ᑲᑭᓐᓂᖅ) are the traditional tattoos of the Inuit of the North American Arctic. The practice is done almost exclusively among women, with women exclusively tattooing other women with the tattoos for various purposes. Men could also receive tattoos but these were often ...
August 1961 (age 63) [1] Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories. now Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. Known for. draughtperson, Graphic artist. Awards. Gershon Iskowitz Prize [2018] Shuvinai Ashoona RCA (Inuktitut: ᓱᕕᓂ ᐊᓱᓇ, [2] born August 1961 [1]) is an Inuk artist who works primarily in drawing. [3] She is known for her detailed pen and ...
Inuit art. Angakkuq, a sculpture by Pallaya Qiatsuq (Cape Dorset, Nunavut Territory, Canada) Inuit art, refers to artwork produced by Inuit, that is, the people of the Arctic previously known as Eskimos, a term that is now often considered offensive. Historically, their preferred medium was walrus ivory, but since the establishment of southern ...
Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk CM (Inuktitut: ᒥᑎᐊᕐᔪᒃ ᐊᑦᑕᓯ ᓇᑉᐹᓗᒃ; 1931 – April 30, 2007) was an Inuk author, educator, and sculptor from Kangiqsujuaq in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada. She was noted for writing Sanaaq, one of the first Inuktitut-language novels. Nappaaluk translated books into Inuktitut and ...
Website. www.isuma.ca. Isuma (Inuktitut syllabics, ᐃᓱᒪ; Inuktituk for 'to think') is an artist collective and Canada's first Inuit -owned (75%) production company, co-founded by Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak Angilirq and Norman Cohn in Igloolik, Nunavut in 1990. Known internationally for its award-winning film, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner ...
In the Nunavik dialect, Inuktitut is called ` (ᐃᓄᑦᑎᑐᑦ). This dialect is also sometimes called Tarramiutut or Taqramiutut (ᑕᕐᕋᒥᐅᑐᑦ or ᑕᖅᕐᕋᒥᐅᑐᑦ). Subdialects of Inuktitut in this region include Tarrarmiut and Itivimuit. [15] Itivimuit is associated with Inukjuak, Quebec, and there is an Itivimuit River ...