The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is inviting everyone to celebrate the opening of one of Canada’s most long-awaited and groundbreaking museums, Qaumajuq, with a virtual celebration and free days on ...
Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...
Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region. The presence of art from the arctic region in the collection of ...
The Inuit women whose work is chronicled in “Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” are known for illustrating life’s intimacies within their Arctic communities and families, as well as life’s ...
In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in Inuit art ...
In his sun-drenched workshop in Ottawa, July Papatsie chips away at a carving of an inukshuk, the well-known stone formations used by Inuit as landmarks and guideposts. Around here, he’s known for ...
An exhibition featuring the work of five contemporary Inuit artists from across Canada opened at the Winnipeg Art Gallery on Friday. Anaanatta Unikkaangit, which translates to "Our Mother's Stories," ...
Greenlandic women are transforming the Arctic's art scene and releasing their Indigenous identity from its colonial past. They're pushing for visibility and representation through their craft.
Shipping containers dot the landscape of many northern communities, but in a downtown art gallery, it was an unexpected touch in a new exhibition space. When Qaumajuq at the Winnipeg Art Gallery ...
A new museum for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leading collection of Inuit art opens on Saturday in a project shaped by Inuit. By Ian Austen Winnipeg sits far from the territory of the Inuit. But the ...