The film "Legend of the Raven" explores the rich cultural heritage of the Eskimos, focusing on their legends and artistry, particularly through carvings. It tells the story of a man and his son ...

I looked forward to all the Inuit art stories I would write. I planned to go to Cape Dorset as soon as possible to report on the carvings and prints being produced there. But the article Kay had ...

Hailing from a family of Inuit artists in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), located in present ... forward from some of the earliest images and prints of Inuit art.” We hope you enjoyed this ...

It displayed 90 artworks from 32 Inuit artists ... explain the "blue box," which is how he refers to the Cape Dorset Cultural Centre and Print Shop, Huffman spoke with passion and admiration.

A trove of Inuit art—some 89,000 drawings in all—was created in Cape Dorset (now Kinngait ... of day through the issuing of limited-edition prints, with the Toronto market very much in ...

Formerly called Cape Dorset ... for Inuit art, bringing it to international museum audiences and founding what would become Kinngait Studios. He hit upon limited-edition prints as a way to ...

The Art Gallery of Sudbury invites you to view a new exhibition featuring 60 prints by 27 Inuit artists entitled ... Scenes of daily life from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) and Ulukhaqtuuq (Holman ...

The Art Gallery of Sudbury’s new exhibition features 60 prints by 27 Inuit artists titled First Sign of Spring ... “Scenes of daily life from Kinngait (Cape Dorset) and Ulukhaqtuuq (Holman Island), as ...

(Courtesy Dorset Fine Arts) The Cape Dorset print collection is produced by artists living in the Inuit community of Kinngait on Dorset Island, located off the southwest tip of Baffin Island in ...

the Inuit prefer harder types of stone. A talc-schist metamorphic rock called steatite, soapstone is considered too soft for lasting carvings. “Oviloo Tunnillie and other Cape Dorset (Kinngait ...

The first annual Cape Dorset print collection was released the same year, made up of images produced by Inuit in the region, who’d been taught printmaking by Canadian artist James Houston after ...