Artistic diversity
The contemporary Inuit artistic production in the Arctic is extremely rich and varied considering the used practices and techniques as individual and local styles.
Each artist works according to his/her own individual and family experience which inspires its creations. The iconographic subjects, the styles and the way of representations which result from it determine the [...]

The Tupilaq (tupilait in the plural) is a strong identity symbol of the Greenlander Inuit today as the Inuksuk is the one the Canadian Inuit. Even if they are both spread on an international scale on the art market and the tourist sphere, Tupilaq as Inuksuk draw their origin from ancestral historic past.
In Kalaalisut (the [...]

The Espace Culturel Inuit (The Inuit Cultural Space) inaugurated on March 28th its new Parisian sub-branch at the Canadian Cultural Center (5 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris). ” A large number of our partners wished to celebrate this event with us ! “, notices enthusiastically one of the person in charge of The Espace Culturel [...]

Kenojuak Ashevak, well-known Inuit artist from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in Nunavut received on Friday, March 28 in Ottawa The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s foremost distinctions for excellence in these artistic disciplines, were created in 1999 by the Governor General of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.
” I just [...]