From 21st June to 1st July, 2008, Iqaluit will host the Alianait ! Arts Festival. This annual event organised in Nunavut’s capital city is devoted to Inuit arts and consists in ten days and nights of art, music, film, storytelling, circus arts, dance, theatre and much more.
Alianait is the expression of joy and celebration in [...]

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 [...]

An important Inuit print sale exhibition will take place in France in the Parisian area in Souppes sur Loing, from May 31th to June 15ft 2008. This untitled event « The Polar meetings – in the Inuit land » gathers about 85 prints created by 41 artists from Nunavut, Nunavik and Northwest Territories in Canadian [...]

Located on the eastern shore of Ungava Bay in Nunavik (northern Quebec), Kangiqsualujjuaq (formerly George River) began specializing in caribou antler sculptures since the 1970’s. « What we show in our carvings is the life we have lived in the past right up today. We show the truth. » say Inuit artists. Kangiqsualujjuaq means in [...]

The immediate environment and individual experiences as well as collective (related to the history of families and arctic communities) are the main sources of artistic inspiration, including themes represented from shamanism and imagination.
Since its beginning in the 1950’s, contemporary Inuit art intends for the international art market - North America and Europe in particular – [...]

The aim of this blog consists in examining and documenting Inuit artistic creation on a pan-Inuit scale close to past and contemporary Inuit culture in Alaska, Greenland, Nunavut and Nunavik (Canadian Eastern Arctic).
Our interest focuses on works of art, creators and artistic events like exhibition and cultural projects devoted to Inuit art and more largely [...]