William Noah

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William Noah (born 1944, Back River, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) [1] ) is a former territorial level politician and artist. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1982.

Noah was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election, winning the Keewatin North electoral district. [2] He resigned before completing the end of his first term in 1982.[ citation needed ]

Noah currently resides in Baker Lake, Nunavut. He ran the constituency office for Baker Lake MLA David Simailak. He currently works as a Community Liaison Officer on the Kiggavik Project for AREVA Resources Canada.

In 1998 the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Marion Jackson, Judith Nasby, William Noah co-curated a major exhibition with catalogue both entitled Qamanittuaq (Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists which included and a memoir by William Noah and distinguished drawings by Noah, his three siblings Janet Kigusiuq, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, and Nancy Pukingrnak, and their mother— first-generation artist— Jessie Oonark CM OC RCA. [3]

Noah formed the Art and Cold Cash Collective, a five-person artists' collective, with Sheila Butler, Ruby Arngna'naaq, Patrick Mahon, and Jack Butler. [4]

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References

  1. William Noah Archived 2016-04-03 at the Wayback Machine at Inuit Art Alive
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Nasby, Judith; Noah, William; Jackson, Marion E.; Millar, Peter (1998), "Qamanittuaq (Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists From the Collection of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre", Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Exhibition catalogue, Guelph, archived from the original on 13 January 2015, retrieved 13 January 2015
  4. Mahon, Patrick. "Excerpts from the Drawn like Money Series". Highbeam Research. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
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