Cape Dorset—called Kinngait in the Inuit language, Inuktitut, for the area’s high, rolling hills—is a thriving community on southwestern Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic Territory of Nunavut. The community is renowned for the wonderful Inuit art that flows from its cooperatively owned printmaking studios, active since the 1950s.
This book of postcards presents thirty reproductions of lithographs, etchings/aquatints, stonecuts, and stencils from the artists of the Kinngait studios. Elegant, eloquent, and filled with quiet power, they amount—individually and collectively—to a strong and buoyant statement of Inuit cultural traditions.
Images
- Sheojuk Etidlooie (1929–1999), Qupanuapak (Big Bird)
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Guardian Owl
- Ohotaq Mikkigak (1936–2014), Courtship Dance
- Sheojuk Etidlooie (1929–1999), Ukpaaraaq (Young Owl)
- Qavavau Manumie (b. 1958), Little Raven
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Preening Owl
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Silver Owl
- Qavavau Manumie (b. 1958), Sheltered Nestling
- Sheojuk Etidlooie (1929–1999), Raven in Red
- Pitaloosie Saila (b. 1942), Loon with Young
- Sheojuk Etidlooie (1929–1999), Mitiq (Eider Duck)
- Qavavau Manumie (b. 1958), Mating Geese
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Tulukkaaraminiit (Many Young Ravens)
- Qavavau Manumie (b. 1958), Grey Owl
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Summer Courtship
- Qavavau Manumie (b. 1958), Spring Trio
- Nikotai Mills (1936–2003), Following the Route
- Nikotai Mills (1936–2003), Bird Song
- Kananginak Pootoogook (1935–2010), Raven’s Dance
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), The Harbinger
- Qavavau Manumie (b. 1958), Young Goose Preening
- Kananginak Pootoogook (1935–2010), On the Lookout
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Tattigaak (Birds)
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Illustrious Owl
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Naujiit (Seagulls)
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Audacious Owl
- Iyola Kingwatsiak (1933–2000), Loon’s Descent
- Nikotai Mills (1936–2003), Mother Owl Shelters Young
- Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Riding on Mother Owl
- Kananginak Pootoogook (1935–2010), Hawk Prepares for Attack