The Cape Dorset art story has been told thousands of times over. But no matter who tells it and how, the printers who actually produce the physical lithographs and stone cuts, often get left out of the narrative.

But many art experts consider these printers the unsung heros of the Cape Dorset success story. So Eye on the Arctic wanted its audience to meet one. Niveaksie Quvianaqtuliaq has been working at Kinngait Studios for almost two decades. Here, in a 2010 conversation with Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn, Quvianaqtuliaq explains how he, and his fellow printers, work to create the perfect image and what working on the Cape Dorset print collection has meant to him both professionally and personally.

Carving is usually the first thing that comes to mind when people think about northern art. But just like other art forms in the Arctic, carving is evolving and changing.

Toonoo Sharky is a longtime carver based in Cape Dorset, Nunavut and has developed an instantly recognizable style that’s become a favourite of collectors. In fact, it’s hard to find an Inuit art gallery in Canada, that doesn’t have his work as part of their collection. In this 2010 conversation with Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn, Sharky talked about his craft and his hopes for the next generation of northern carvers.

There’s little consensus on what the future of Inuit art will or should look like. But there’s one thing almost everyone can agree on — Ningeokuluk Teevee will certainly be part of it.

Her work has broad appeal; collectors of traditional Inuit art snap up her work depicting ancient legends while those looking for edgier northern art gravitate to her drawings depicting contemporary life in the North. She admits she’s not a big fan of doing interviews when everything she has to say is already out there in her work. But in 2010, she sat down with Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn to discuss how climate change is affecting Cape Dorset and increasingly inspiring her art.

Artists often say they create art for themselves and don’t care what other people think.

But when Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn tracked down Jutai Toonoo working in Nunavut’s Kinngait Studios in 2010, we got the sense that he really, really meant it. Toonoo used human imagery to explore identity issues and cultural conflict in the North for much of his career. But at the time of his sudden death in 2015, he’d begun exploring more personal themes in his work, like cancer, a disease that had begun to ravage friends and family members. Many experts say he produced some of the most provocative contemporary artwork to ever come out of the Arctic. In this no-holds-barred conversation, Toonoo talks us through his process, his inspiration and what he really thinks of the art world.

Artist Jolly Atagooyuk was born in Qikiqtarjuaq but lives and works in the community of Pangnirtung in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.

Louie Nigiyok is a printmaker and artist from the Inuit community of Ulukhaktok (Holman), in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn sat with him in 2012 to discuss his art, his inspirations and the rich history of Holman’s print program.

Pangnirtung’s art centre is unique in Canada’s Arctic.

Aqqaluk Lynge is a poet and the current chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the president of the ICC– Greenland.

In this in-depth interview with Eye on the Arctic journalist Eilís Quinn, Lynge reads from his poem “The Sound of my Song” and discusses how standardizing the Inuit language writing system would increase Inuit political and cultural clout on the world stage and help heal the scars of colonialism across the Arctic.