Sheouak Petaulassie

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Sheouak Petaulassie
Born1918
Died1961(1961-00-00) (aged 42–43)
near the Itilliarjuk camp in Nunavut
Other names
  • Sheouak
  • Sheowa Sheouak
  • Sheowak Sheouak
  • Sheoak Sheouak [1]
Known forprintmaking

Sheouak Parr Petaulassie (1918-1961) was an Inuk printmaker. [1]

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Early life

She grew up in the Kinngait (Cape Dorset) area. [2]

Career

James Houston chose ten of her prints for inclusion in the 1960 and 1961 print collections of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-Operative, which she was involved with. [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]

She died of influenza [6] in 1961 near the Itilliarjuk camp in Nunavut. [1]

Her work is held in several museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, [2] [1] the Canadian Museum of Civilization, [1] the Glenbow Museum, [1] the Hood Museum of Art, [7] the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, [8] the University of Michigan Museum of Art, [9] the Art Institute of Chicago, [10] and the Art Gallery of Windsor. [1]

Personal life

She and Agiak Petaulassie (an Anglican minister) [11] had six children, [6] including the artist Mayureak Ashoona. [12] Sheouak's granddaughter, Siassie Kenneally (1969–2018) was also an artist. [11]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Artists : Petaulassie, Sheouak". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 22 September 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Sheouak Petaulassie". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Sheouak Petaulassie (1918-1961) Kinngait (Cape Dorset) - Pot Spirits, 1960 #55". First Arts. Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Dhopade, Prajakta (19 October 2019). "'That's my auntie': A new book reframes photos from Indigenous communities". Maclean's. Archived from the original on 29 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  5. ↑ Campbell, Heather (22 June 2022). "How to Strip an Archive of Cultural Insensitivity: Reclaiming Our Names". Inuit Art Quarterly. Archived from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  6. 1 2 3 Hinds, Barbara (March 2019). "Chapter 23 ~ Artists and Spirits – Collision in the Arctic". digitaleditions.library.dal.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  7. ↑ "Reflections in my Mind". Hood Museum. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  8. ↑ "Collection Online | Museum of Anthropology at UBC". collection-online.moa.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  9. ↑ "Exchange: Three Walrus". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  10. ↑ "Furnishing Fabric". The Art Institute of Chicago. February 1960. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  11. 1 2 "Siasse Kenneally: All the Things That I Have Seen". Inuit Art Foundation. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
  12. ↑ "Mayoreak Ashoona". 13 May 2017.


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