In the Canadian Arctic, printmaking began in 1956 in Kinngait (Nunavut) thanks to the strong involvement of the Inuit people who live there added to James Houston’s support. The first annual print collection has been designed after two years of experimentation leading to elaborating a unique printing technique : stonecut.
Derived from the Japanese woodcut process, [...]

The Inuit word “katajjait” is usually translated in English by “throat singings” – katajjaq is the singular. Actually, in Inuktitut (the Inuit language) katajjaq refers to a game where two women imitate animal voices and natural sounds like the one from feet walking on the ice or the one from the wind and the sea. [...]

 
Kinngait is an Inuit community located in Nunavut (Baffin Island) 
The Kinngait Studios
More than 1200 people live in Kinngait and most families count with one’s one artist or more as carver, printer or drawer. The Kinngait hamlet is well-know on the international art market as the major art centre in the Canadian Arctic.
in the Canadian Arctic [...]