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 [...]

Three 2008 print collections recently left the art studios from Nunavut and are available for purchase in the Inuit art galleries: the Kinngait 2008 Spring Print Release, the Panniqtuuq 2008 Annual Print Collection and the 2008 Qamanittuaq Print Portfolio.
Kinngait 2008 Spring Print Release
Since its first print collection released in 1956 at the Kinngait Studio, the [...]

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection d’Art Canadien in Kleinburg (Ontario, Canada) is devoted to collection and exhibiting only Canadian art, including First Nations and Inuit art. The McMichael’s Inuit Art Collection is a major public resource that attracts researchers on Inuit art and culture, committed collectors and art galleries.
The Inuit art collection of the McMichael [...]

In the Inuit society of past as of the present, tuktuit ” caribous ” (tuktu in the singular) occupy an important place. In the contemporary art, in sculpture as in pictorial art (painting, drawing, print), the caribou is one of the most represented games with the polar bear and the seal.
The caribou remains mostly represented [...]

The sale-exhibition of Inuit prints from the Canadian Arctic, organized within the framework of the International meetings of contemporary print in Val de Loing was inaugurated last May 31st in Souppes-sur- Loing, in Parisian area (France). Eighty-three prints, around thirty sculptures from Kinngait, Panniqtuuq, Puvirnituq and Ulukhaqtuuq, as well as photos and everyday objects are [...]

The origin of the living beings is one of the most popular Inuit myths in the Arctic as well in non Inuit territories. It is about the story of Uinigumasuittuq ” the one who did not want to get married “, so called Takannakaaluk ” the Big there below “; more known by Qallunaat as [...]

But what is an inuksuk*? Characteristics of the Arctic Regions, inuksuit are simply stony piles (inuksugait in inuktitut) which the silhouette sometimes looks like humans… But let us Paaliin Pilip, an Inuit author Inuit from Iqaluit, explain it :
Inuksugait always had a very big utility. They had different meanings. Inuit had at first two wayss [...]

Polar bears - nanuit in inuktitut (singular: nanuq) - are omnipresent in the Inuit culture and the daily life, formerly as today. It is not thus surprising that the bear is a subject of preference for artists in all domains such as carving as graphic arts.
Who saw contemporary Inuit carvings immediately represents himself a polar [...]

In spite of the effects of the christianization, the tradition connected to the shamanism (angakkuuniq in inuktitut) continues, but with adjustments. If Inuit are today Anglican, Catholic or Pentecostal, many people always believe in shamanism: “we believe in these two systems” say the elders in the Canadian Arctic.
Animals and Humans
Formerly, animals constituted an essential [...]