Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...
Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region. The presence of art from the arctic region in the collection of ...
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is inviting everyone to celebrate the opening of one of Canada’s most long-awaited and groundbreaking museums, Qaumajuq, with a virtual celebration and free days on ...
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 ...
William Beveridge has been working for decades to bring collections of Inuit art scattered across Canada back to Nunavut. Now he believes it's more urgent than ever. "Our cultural belongings are ...
In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in Inuit art ...
In a small second-floor space at the Art Gallery of Ontario, staff have organized an exhibition of works by Surusilutu Ashoona. It’s the first time the Inuit artist, who died in 2011, has ever been ...
Shipping containers dot the landscape of many northern communities, but in a downtown art gallery, it was an unexpected touch in a new exhibition space. When Qaumajuq at the Winnipeg Art Gallery ...
A new museum for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leading collection of Inuit art opens on Saturday in a project shaped by Inuit. By Ian Austen Winnipeg sits far from the territory of the Inuit. But the ...
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 ...