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Landmark Inuit textile exhibit winds up in January

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2022 at 08:14
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A landmark exhibit of textiles made by Inuit artists winds up next month after travelling the country and even nabbing

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Famed Inuit artist Pitseolak Ashoona shortlisted to appear on upcoming $5 Canadian bank note

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, November 13, 2020 at 14:42
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Famed artist Pitseolak Ashoona is one of eight notable Canadians shortlisted to appear on the next $5 banknote, the Bank

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Project to digitize works from Inuit artists gets further grant from Canadian Heritage

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 08:37
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A project to digitize the works from the famed Kinngait art program in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut has

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Works by Nunavut, Canada artist Qavavau Manumie featured in Warsaw exhibition

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 09:35 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 15:05
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A number of works by Canadian artist Qavavau Manumie are being featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern

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Exhibition explores little-known story of graphic textiles produced in Canada’s eastern Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 08:57
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An exhibition currently underway at the Textile Museum of Canada  explores the little-known story of the graphic texitle program in

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Canada RCI Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic Canada: Cape Dorset council endorses vote to change community name to Kinngait

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 14:28
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Cape Dorset is one step closer to its name being officially recognized as Kinngait — one of its traditional names. Kinngait

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New York Times article on Inuit draws backlash for reliance on stereotypes

Kyle Muzyka, CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 18, 2019 at 14:23
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When Francine Compton saw many Inuit frustrated by a recent article in the New York Times, she didn’t want to read it.

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Northern Canada: New health centre in Cape Dorset could hold those on suicide watch, inquest hears

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 10:11
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Cape Dorset’s new health centre will be the first in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut to have a room

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Legacy of Inuk artist Itee Pootoogook explored in Canadian exhibition

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 19, 2019 at 01:01 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:45
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Inuk artist Itee Pootoogook (1951 – 2014) was well-known for his drawings of solitary figures or architecture placed amongst vast Arctic

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Cape Dorset, in Canada’s eastern Arctic, considers returning to Inuktitut name

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 11:40
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The Nunavut community of Cape Dorset could go back to its traditional name. The community was named by English explorer

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Arctic Canada: Wrongful death lawsuit settled in case of Nunavut’s Baby Makibi

Thomas Rohner, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 14:16 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 12:37
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A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit against the government of Nunavut and a former nurse in

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Arctic Canadian co-operative behind renowned Inuit art program celebrates 60th anniversary

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 13:30 — Last Updated: Friday, January 11, 2019 at 12:13
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The West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, the Arctic Canadian business behind the renowned Cape Dorset print program, is marking its 60th

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Inuit art featured on new Canadian banknote

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 17:30 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 20:05
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The Bank of Canada has released a new $10 bill featuring the work of one of Canada’s most renowned artists,

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Arctic Art 

The New Raw: Documentary Report

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 18:33 — Last Updated: Friday, June 30, 2017 at 20:17
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In this 2010 documentary report, Eye on the Arctic’s Eilís Quinn travelled to Cape Dorset, Nunavut to speak with the Arctic artists whose work is exploring the rapid social and environmental change in their communities.

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THE OBSERVER- Jimmy Kamimmalik

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, February 3, 2017 at 13:38 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 19:53
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We take you into studio with Jimmy Kamimmalik, an artist and printmaker working in Baker Lake, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.

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Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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