This week, I let you share the extract of a text written by Minnie Aodla Freeman, an Inuit woman, accomplished writer and translator:
Although I am neither an artist nor famous, I was involved with these artists [in Kinngait] as an Inuit writer. […] The woman artists were all born here or in the outlying camps. [...]

Kananginak Pootoogook : “We like to keep our culture through carvings and prints. Those art pieces are very valuable : they tell of the past.” (1)
Pitaloosie Saila : “You don’t just do drawings […] you express yourself. It is also a way of life, a part of life. Life is sometimes heavy […] you have [...]

The Kinngait community is located on the south west coast of Baffin Island on the Foxe Peninsula of Baffin in Nunavut territory (Canadian Arctic). 1236 persons live there (Statistic Canada 2006) including about 95% of Inuit and 5% of Qallunaat (non Inuit).
Qallunaat people generally use the English name “Cape Dorset” to talk about the community [...]

The representation of a mother and her child in sculpture is not a frequent subject in the Inuit art contrary to the qallunaat art (not Inuit) where this topic appears in the religious as profane representations. This theme remains relatively recent in the history of Inuit art although it is more present in contemporary graphics [...]