Celebrating the arts of the Arctic
The nearest airport to Brunswick is the Portland (PWM) Airport which is 25.4 miles away. Other nearby airports include the Augusta Airport (AUG) (29.3 miles), the Bangor Airport (BGR) (84.3 miles), the Manchester Airport (MHT) (101.1 miles) and the Boston Airport (BOS) (120.1 miles). American Airlines, Republic Airways, United, Delta, WestJet, Southwest Airlines, jetBlue, Endeavor Read More …
Brunswick Maine is a historic and picturesque New England town established in 1628. It is bordered by the Androscoggin River and the Atlantic Ocean, and has 67 miles of coastline. It is also home to Bowdoin College, the first college established in Maine in 1794, with its Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and the reason for our Read More …
Drew Ann Wake is an anthropologist and media producer who has spent forty-five years working with Indigenous organizations in the Northwest Territories. She’ll be speaking at the 2022 Inuit Art Society meeting on September 30th in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently working on an exhibition, River Journeys, under the leadership of the Gwich’in Tribal Read More …
Inuit sculptor Abraham Anghik Ruben will be featured at the Inuit Art Society’s 2022 Annual Meeting in Vancouver. He’ll be speaking on September 30. Ruben was born in Paulatuk, Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories in 1951 and is a major innovative force among Inuit sculptors. In 1971, Ruben began his formal studies in art under Read More …
Lindsay McIntyre is a film artist from Edmonton of Inuk/European descent. She holds an MFA in Film and a BFA in Painting and Drawing. She will be speaking at the Inuit Art Society’s Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, on September 30, 2022. Her process-based media practice is largely analog and deals with themes of portraiture, Read More …
Amanda Jane Davison is a 22-year-old Inupiak artist from Elim, Alaska. She has followed the traditional subsistence way of life from a very young age and admires and is inspired by the beauty and scenery that surrounds her. “Every season I gather greens, berries, fish, bird eggs, and other foods for my family.” Her paintings Read More …
Jamie Cameron was a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, Ontario for many years and is well known in the legal community. She has also served on the board of directors for many organizations over the years, including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Canada’s National Ballet School, the Canadian and BC Read More …
Dr. Norma Dunning will open the first full day of presentations on September 30th at the Inuit Art Society’s 2022 annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada. A Padlei Inuk writer, professor, and grandmother, Dr. Dunning’s work primarily focuses on Inuit who reside outside of the tundra. An award-winning author, her short story collection Tainna (the unseen Read More …
Inuit on her mother’s side and Greek on her father’s side, Sophia’s unique cultural background influenced a keen perspective of culture and art. Growing up among master artists of the Kivaliq region in her family-run art cooperative, Sophia was immersed in the procurement of Inuit art, from creation to distribution. Her lineage is tied to Read More …
The Inuit Art Society is teaming up with the Arctic Arts and Culture Society (AACS) for this year’s Annual Meeting. We’ll be meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning on Thursday evening, September 29th and ending at noon on Sunday, October 2nd. The home base for our meeting will be Vancouver’s “West End.” The West End Read More …