Celebrating the arts of the Arctic
Keeping a high-quality publication like the Inuit Art Quarterly going is a challenge. Earlier this year the Inuit Art Foundation, the publisher of Inuit Art Quarterly, was looking at a year end budget shortfall. A request for help brought additional funding from over 140 donors. The Inuit Art Society was one of those donors who Read More …
There is still a little time to see Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit, a stunning exhibit of historic Alaskan Yup’ik masks and Matisse drawings influenced by them, at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. But there isn’t much time, with the show closing the first week of February. This large exhibit brings Read More …
The Inuit Studies Conference will be held at the University of Quebec in Montreal on October 3-6, 2019. The Inuit Studies Conference is an international and multidisciplinary conference showcasing both Inuit traditional knowledge and expertise as well as academic research from a wide variety of disciplines on topics relating to Inuit peoples and the Inuit homeland. The Read More …
This year’s Inuit Art Society meeting will open in Traverse City, Michigan, in just a few days. An annual gathering of people who love Inuit art, the meeting brings collectors (particularly American collectors) together to meet Inuit artists, learn more about the art and culture of the Arctic, and add a few pieces to their Read More …
Join us in Traverse City, Michigan, to meet Inuit artist Bill Nasogaluak! Bill Nasogaluak is an Inuit artist born in Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1953. He started drawing at a young age then transitioned into painting. For many years, he practiced his art in his spare time while he worked as a certified electronic technician. Read More …
Inuit sculptor Bill Nasogaluak will be featured at the 2018 Inuit Art Society Meeting scheduled for October 19-21, 2018, in Traverse City, Michigan. Bill is primarily a sculptor but also makes drawings and paintings in acrylics. Although he has been drawing and painting since he was a child, Bill only became a full-time artist around 1992. Before Read More …
This 1981 carving by Eli Sallualu Qinuajua from Puvirnituq will be on exhibit at the 2017 IAS annual meeting in Corning, New York. In 1967, our conference guest, Nelson Graeburn, sponsored a contest for artists throughout the arctic to create highly imaginative works that allowed their imaginations “free rein.” The artist who created this work Read More …
Most Inuit art collectors know James Houston for the time he spent in the Arctic. But he was only in the Arctic for 14 years. He spent the next 43 years working as a designer at Steuben Glass in New York City where he designed over 100 pieces. While at Steuben, he designed pieces based Read More …
We note the passing of Terry Ryan, long-time manager of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, on August 31, 2017. Beginning in the late 1950s he traveled the Arctic, settling in Cape Dorset in 1960 and assuming a leading role in managing the Cooperative (now Kinngait Studios). He played many roles in the community until leaving Read More …
What are the basics of a collector’s library on Inuit art? There are some books every collector should have; some books collectors should have based on their collecting interests; some books that would be nice to have; and even some books that no one needs. Let’s look at what I think of as a basic Read More …