Meet Drew Ann Wake

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 …

Abraham Anghik Ruben featured at IAS 2022 Annual Meeting

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 …

Dr. Norma Dunning to speak at the 2022 IAS meeting

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 …

Meet Sophia Lebessis: IAS 2022 keynote speaker

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 …

Bill Nasogaluak featured at the Inuit Art Society Meeting

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 …

Who’s Ole Gjerstad?

In his own words: Ole Gjerstad traveled the seven seas, mined for silver and logged giant Canadian timber before becoming an anthropologist, writer, radio broadcaster and filmmaker.  He founded Words & Pictures Videos/Vidéos mots & images in Montreal in 1992 and co-founded Piksuk Media in 2005. His 60-some documentaries have won many awards in Canada Read More …