Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way. Kinngait, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Its ...

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 ...

Canada Goose may be a luxury parka brand, but it has big ambitions when it comes to acquiring Canadian art. Walruses appear frequently in the folklore of the Inuit people, who have inhabited Northern ...

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 ...

As a youngster reading the books of the Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and leafing through old National Geographic magazines in my grandparents’ library, I was fascinated by the far North, and a trip ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A collection of Inuit art, including carved stone bears, seals and hunters, will be exhibited in ...

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 ...

Offering work by both well known and lesser known artists, Discover Inuit Art includes sculpture and graphics selected both for their appeal as well as for their accessible price point. The auction ...

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 ...

I: Arctic traditions -- Shamanistic traditions -- Dorset and Thule traditions in Canada -- II: Historic Inuit art -- Western aesthetics and Inuit art -- Interviews with Inuit artists -- Art by Nicola ...

2006-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Cape Dorset, Nunavut-- It's a sunny spring day, and some of Canada's best artists are sending up smoke signals all over a tiny town at the southwestern end of Baffin Island.