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 ...
Inuit women rank among the most innovative and skilled craftspeople in the world, and this exhibition shows why. The highlight is a display of three stunning beaded amautiit that have recently been ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kyak (under her aptly named Inuk Chic brand), sells clothing imprinted with traditional tattoo patterns and incorporates the markings in custom-made parkas that show up on runways in Toronto and on ...
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions and ...
TikToker Shina Novalinga (@shinanova) recently got a traditional tattoo with her mother in honor of their Inuit heritage. Traveling home for the holidays? Here are 4 things you need to do right now.
Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt. When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh, ...