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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.
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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 [...]