Short History
Printmaking started in 1961 in Nunavik as a cultural and economic project of the newly formed Puvirnituq Cooperative, following the example of the Kinngait print shop in Nunavut begun in 1957. Prints were also created in others Nunavik communities in Inujjuaq, Ivujivik, Kuujjuaraapik and Kangiqsujuaq.
Annual print collections were produced in Puvirnituq from 1962 through [...]

The first Inuit co-operatives
 
A co-operative –or the co-op - is a group gathering people together who work in the same way in order to achieve the same objectives.  By 1956, in Kinngait (in Nunavut), the Inuit artists who were looking for more autonomy established the first co-operative in their community with financial supports from the [...]

The Nunavik area, «the place where we live» in Inuktitut, extends over 560,000 squares kilometres in the Northern part of Quebec -one third of the province of Quebec. Nunavik is separated from Nunavut Territory by Hudson Bay to the west and Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay to the North.
 
Fourteen communities are located along the [...]