Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way. Kinngait, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Its ...

As a youngster reading the books of the Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and leafing through old National Geographic magazines in my grandparents’ library, I was fascinated by the far North, and a trip ...

In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in Inuit art ...

Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...

The landscapes and seascapes of the Arctic appear bleak and barren to those unfamiliar with the region, but Inuit know that they teem with life. Sea mammals and fish are abundant beneath the ice, and ...

I: Arctic traditions -- Shamanistic traditions -- Dorset and Thule traditions in Canada -- II: Historic Inuit art -- Western aesthetics and Inuit art -- Interviews with Inuit artists -- Art by Nicola ...

Offering work by both well known and lesser known artists, Discover Inuit Art includes sculpture and graphics selected both for their appeal as well as for their accessible price point. The auction ...

2006-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Cape Dorset, Nunavut-- It's a sunny spring day, and some of Canada's best artists are sending up smoke signals all over a tiny town at the southwestern end of Baffin Island.

Growing up in Havana, Eugenia Druyet Zoubareva loved a special sweet treat called raspadura. Made by boiling down sugar cane, raspadura is usually sold in light brown blocks. It looks a bit like the ...