Related Research Articles
The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, Indigenous Canadian, and international artists. The museum also holds the world's largest collection of Inuit art. In addition to exhibits for its collection, the museum has organized and hosted a number of travelling arts exhibitions. Its building complex consists of a main building that includes 11,000 square metres (120,000 sq ft) of indoor space and the adjacent 3,700-square-metre (40,000 sq ft) Qaumajuq building.
Jessie Oonark, was a prolific and influential Inuk artist of the Utkuhiksalingmiut Utkuhiksalingmiut whose wall hangings, prints and drawings are in major collections including the National Gallery of Canada.
Andrew Qappik is a Canadian Inuk graphic artist currently residing in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Qappik is known for his printmaking and his contribution to the Nunavut coat of arms. His uncles Solomon and Imoona Karpik were also artists, and encouraged him to start drawing.
Pudlo Pudlat, was a Canadian Inuit artist whose preferred medium was a combination of acrylic wash and coloured pencils. His works are in the collections of most Canadian museums. At his death in 1992, Pudlo left a body of work that included more than 4000 drawings and 200 prints.
Germaine Arnaktauyok is an Inuk printmaker, painter, and drawer originating from the Igloolik area of Nunavut, then the Northwest Territories. Arnaktauyok drew at an early age with any source of paper she could find.
Ningiukulu (Ningeokuluk) Teevee is a Canadian Inuk writer and visual artist.
Marion Tuu'luq LL.D (1910–2002), also known as Anguhadluq, Tudluq, Tuuluq, and Toodlook, was an Inuk artist in mixed media and textiles. She "drew upon vivid colors, symmetry, and anthropomorphic imagery, to create vibrant tapestries which depict stories, legends, and personal experiences."
Janet Kigusiuq was an Inuk artist.
Sheila Butler is an American-Canadian visual artist and retired professor, now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is a founding member of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the Sanavik Inuit Cooperative in Baker Lake, Nunavut. She is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
Napachie Pootoogook was a Canadian Inuit graphic artist.
Nancy Pukingrnak Aupaluktuq is a Canadian Inuit artist known for her sculptures, drawings, and textile art. Her work draws from Inuit mythology and features Western spatial perspective.
Ovilu (Oviloo) Tunnillie was born at Kangia, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories and was an Inuit sculptor. Her carvings served as her commentary on both traditional and changing contemporary Inuit culture. She was one of the first Inuit artists to work with an autobiographical theme.
Ulayu Pingwartok was a Canadian Inuk artist known for drawings of domestic scenes and nature.
Heather L. Igloliorte is an Inuk scholar, independent curator and art historian from Nunatsiavut.
Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq (1916–2003) was an innovative Canadian Inuk textile artist active from the 1970s to early 2000s. Angnaqquaq's work explores textile creations while experimenting with non-traditional methods. Her style has been described as painterly for the way in which she fills the space between her figures and animals with embroidery.
Elisapee Ishulutaq was a self-taught Inuk artist, specialising in drawing and printmaking. Ishulutaq participated in the rise of print and tapestry making in Pangnirtung and was a co-founder of the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts & Crafts, which is both an economic and cultural mainstay in Pangnirtung. Ishulutaq was also a community elder in the town of Pangnirtung. Ishulutaq's work has been shown in numerous institutions, including the Marion Scott Gallery in Vancouver, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada.
Mary Kapbak Okheena is an Inuvialuit graphic artist known for her stencil prints including "Musk-ox Waiting for the Tide to Cross Water" (1986) and "Shaman Dances to Northern Lights" (1991), drawings and embroidery. She is part of the third generation of organized graphic artists in the Canadian Arctic. Okheena has five children with her husband Eddie and she currently lives in Inuvik where she practices embroidery and makes wall hangings.
Bernadette Iguptark Tongelik (1931-1980) was an Inuk artist known for her sculptural works.
The UtkuhiksalingmiutUkukhalingmiut, Utkukhalingmiut —the people of the place where there is soapstone—is one of 48 groups of Inuit in what is now Nunavut, Canada. Their traditional land was around Chantrey Inlet (Tariunnuaq) area, near the estuary of the Back River in, what was then called, the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories. The Utkuhiksalingmiut followed the traditional hunter-nomadic life moving from fishing the camp near the mouth of the Back River on Chantrey Inlet to their caribou hunting camp in the Garry Lake area, living in winter snow houses (igloos) and caribou skin tents in the summer. They subsisted mainly on trout, whitefish, and barren-ground caribou.
Ada Eyetoaq (1934-2014) was a Baker Lake (Nunavut) Inuk artist who produced traditional Inuit art. She is primarily known for her miniature soapstone sculptures.
References
- ↑ "Ruth Qaulluaryuk". AskArt. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ↑ Avatituq, Fanny Algaalaga (15 September 2017). "Ruth Qaulluaryuk Nuilaalik". Intuit Art Quarterly. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023– via PressReader.
- ↑ Hessel, Ingo (2006). Arctic spirit: Inuit art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum. Phoenix: Heard Museum. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-55365-189-5. OCLC 63705398.
- 1 2 3 Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
- ↑ "Ruth Qaulluaryuk". National Gallery of Canada . Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ↑ "The Tundra with River". National Museum of the American Indian . Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ↑ "Ruth Qaulluaryuk". Katilvik. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ↑ Amato, Diane (3 June 2021). "INUA: Celebrating Inuit Voices at the Winnipeg Art Gallery". Diversity - Royal Bank of Canada. Archived from the original on 30 September 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
| International | |
|---|---|
| Artists | |
 | This article about a Canadian artist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |