INUIT ART QUARTERLY INUIT ART QUARTERLY INUIT ART QUARTERLY INUIT ART QUARTERLY Vol. 23, No. 4 I Winter 2008 I $7.95 INUIT ART QUARTERLY PUBLISHED BY THE INUIT ART FOUNDATION INUIT ART QUARTERLY INUIT ART QUARTERLY M I M I 04 I I NUIT ART QUARTERLY At the Galleries 40 I UPDATE/BRIEFLY NOTED Evie Mark, Taqralik Partridge, and the Orchestre Winter 2008 Vol. 23, No. 4 symphonique de Montréal • Annie Pootoogook Print EDITOR: Marybelle Mitchell in Beijing • Zacharias Kunuk Awarded Honorary MANAGING EDITOR: Matthew Harrison Degree • Inuit Art Rediscovered in Toronto… ADVERTISING SALES: [email protected] and in the U.K. • Nunavut Film Opens Expanded Resource Centre CIRCULATION & EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Michael Caesar DeSIGN AND 46 I LETTER TYPOGRAPHY: Acart Communications Inc. PRINTING: St. Joseph’s Print Group 47 I ADVERTISERS’ INDEX / MAP OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC PUBLISHER: Inuit Art Foundation INUKTITUT 20 I REVIEW ESSAY IAQ is a publication of the Inuit Art Foundation, a non-profit organization gov- TRANSLATION: Mishak Allurut The New Generation: A Radical Defiance erned by a board of Inuit artists. The Inuit Art Foundation exists to facilitate EDITORIAL Mattiusi Iyaituk Robert Kardosh the creative expressions of Inuit artists and to foster a broader understanding ADVISORY Shirley Moorhouse COMMITTEE: Norman Vorano Fifty years after the first experiments with of these expressions worldwide. The foundation is funded by contributions Heather Igloliorte Inuit printmaking began, a new generation from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and other public and private DiRECTORS, Mattiusi Iyaituk of artists is taking Cape Dorset graphics agencies, as well as private donations by individuals. Wherever possible, INUIT ART Shirley Moorhouse in some challenging directions. it operates on a cost-recovery basis. FOUNDATION: Mathew Nuqingaq Okpik Pitseolak John Terriak Siasi Smiler All rights reserved. Reproduction without written permission of the publisher is strictly forbidden. 09 I GUEST EDITORIAL Not responsible for unsolicited material. The It Was Worth Doing views expressed in Inuit Art Quarterly are not necessarily those of the editor or the board of Leslie Boyd Ryan directors. Feature articles are refereed. IAQ is a member of the Canadian Magazine Publishers’ Long involved in the West Baffin Co-op, Leslie Boyd Association. We acknowledge the financial Ryan looks at the past and future of printmaking in support of the Government of Canada, through the North as the 50th anniversary of the Kinngait the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) towards our mailing costs, and through a grant Studios approaches. from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. PAP number 8986. Publications mail agreement number 5049814. Publication date 11 I FEATURE of this issue: November 2008. ISSN 0831-6708. Inuit Artists and Cover Image: Send address changes, letters to the editor Tuberculosis Patients Tattooed Women, 2008, Arnaqu Ashevak, and advertising enquiries to: in Hamilton Cape Dorset (etching and aquatint; Inuit Art Quarterly 94.5 x 73.5 cm). Courtesy of Dorset 2081 Merivale Road Susan Gustavison Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario. Ottawa, Ontario K2G 1G9 A most improbable set x3Nd6 xy?4, rzw5 Tel: (613) 224-8189; Fax: (613) 224-2907 32 I REVIEW: EXHIBITION e-mail: [email protected] of circumstances brought In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun: website: www.inuitart.org together the Inuit of the Sámi and Inuit Art 2000–2005 Eastern Arctic, their art, Subscription rates (one year) Dorothy Speak Canada and USA: $33 (payable in CDN$ or US$) and the people of Hamilton Overseas: US$70 in the 1950s. Cheque, money order, VISA, MasterCard and American Express accepted. GST registration no. R121033724 Charitable registration number: 12103 3724 RR0001 2 I VOL.23, NO.4 WINTER 2008 INUIT ART QUARTERLY I 3 04 I I NUIT ART QUARTERLY At the Galleries 40 I UPDATE/BRIEFLY NOTED Evie Mark, Taqralik Partridge, and the Orchestre Winter 2008 Vol. 23, No. 4 symphonique de Montréal • Annie Pootoogook Print EDITOR: Marybelle Mitchell in Beijing • Zacharias Kunuk Awarded Honorary MANAGING EDITOR: Matthew Harrison Degree • Inuit Art Rediscovered in Toronto… ADVERTISING SALES: [email protected] and in the U.K. • Nunavut Film Opens Expanded Resource Centre CIRCULATION & EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Michael Caesar DeSIGN AND 46 I LETTER TYPOGRAPHY: Acart Communications Inc. PRINTING: St. Joseph’s Print Group 47 I ADVERTISERS’ INDEX / MAP OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC PUBLISHER: Inuit Art Foundation INUKTITUT 20 I REVIEW ESSAY IAQ is a publication of the Inuit Art Foundation, a non-profit organization gov- TRANSLATION: Mishak Allurut The New Generation: A Radical Defiance erned by a board of Inuit artists. The Inuit Art Foundation exists to facilitate EDITORIAL Mattiusi Iyaituk Robert Kardosh the creative expressions of Inuit artists and to foster a broader understanding ADVISORY Shirley Moorhouse COMMITTEE: Norman Vorano Fifty years after the first experiments with of these expressions worldwide. The foundation is funded by contributions Heather Igloliorte Inuit printmaking began, a new generation from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and other public and private DiRECTORS, Mattiusi Iyaituk of artists is taking Cape Dorset graphics agencies, as well as private donations by individuals. Wherever possible, INUIT ART Shirley Moorhouse in some challenging directions. it operates on a cost-recovery basis. FOUNDATION: Mathew Nuqingaq Okpik Pitseolak John Terriak Siasi Smiler All rights reserved. Reproduction without written permission of the publisher is strictly forbidden. 09 I GUEST EDITORIAL Not responsible for unsolicited material. The It Was Worth Doing views expressed in Inuit Art Quarterly are not necessarily those of the editor or the board of Leslie Boyd Ryan directors. Feature articles are refereed. IAQ is a member of the Canadian Magazine Publishers’ Long involved in the West Baffin Co-op, Leslie Boyd Association. We acknowledge the financial Ryan looks at the past and future of printmaking in support of the Government of Canada, through the North as the 50th anniversary of the Kinngait the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) towards our mailing costs, and through a grant Studios approaches. from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. PAP number 8986. Publications mail agreement number 5049814. Publication date 11 I FEATURE of this issue: November 2008. ISSN 0831-6708. Inuit Artists and Cover Image: Send address changes, letters to the editor Tuberculosis Patients Tattooed Women, 2008, Arnaqu Ashevak, and advertising enquiries to: in Hamilton Cape Dorset (etching and aquatint; Inuit Art Quarterly 94.5 x 73.5 cm). Courtesy of Dorset 2081 Merivale Road Susan Gustavison Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario. Ottawa, Ontario K2G 1G9 A most improbable set x3Nd6 xy?4, rzw5 Tel: (613) 224-8189; Fax: (613) 224-2907 32 I REVIEW: EXHIBITION e-mail: [email protected] of circumstances brought In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun: website: www.inuitart.org together the Inuit of the Sámi and Inuit Art 2000–2005 Eastern Arctic, their art, Subscription rates (one year) Dorothy Speak Canada and USA: $33 (payable in CDN$ or US$) and the people of Hamilton Overseas: US$70 in the 1950s. Cheque, money order, VISA, MasterCard and American Express accepted. GST registration no. R121033724 Charitable registration number: 12103 3724 RR0001 2 I VOL.23, NO.4 WINTER 2008 INUIT ART QUARTERLY I 3 AT THE GALLERIES Experimental Dorset: Cultivating Colour features new oil sticks on paper by contemporary graphic artists from Cape Dorset. The exhibit — at Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto, Ontario — presents work by such artists as Jutai Toonoo, Annie Pootoogook, Suvinai Ashoona, Siassie Kenneally, Papiara Tukiki, and Kakulu Saggiaktok. Until November 22, Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print includes 22 works (11 drawings 2008. Shown: Carrying Groceries, 2007, and 11 prints), as well as a large drawing commissioned by private Suvinai Ashoona, Cape Dorset. collectors in 2004. Also on display are archival photographs of h=Nw xhN, rzw5 Kenojuak, brief biographies, and photographs of some of the key artists who transformed Kenojuak’s drawings into prints. The exhibit is at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, until November 30, 2008. Shown: (Drawing) Blue Owl, 1966–1969. Public Shown: (Print) Blue Owl, 1969. gaJ3b6 s4W4Jx6 Galleries Commercial Galleries Small Sculptures by Great Artists comprises 60 miniature and small- scale sculptures by artists who often work in large scale. At Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Ontario, from December 29, 2008 to January 31, Inuit: A Selection of Works 2009. Shown: From the Earth, from the Musée national des 2008, Idris Moss-Davies, Ottawa. beaux-arts du Québec is a collec- wgE{ m{_bw={, xg? tion of 110 sculptures, including Contemporary Canadian Inuit Drawings/Chinese Drawings from Huxian, 86 miniatures on loan from the Jinshan, and Qijiang is a cross-cultural exhibition showing the common bonds Brousseau Inuit Art Collection. The between two seemingly disparate groups of artists. Thirty-two Chinese drawings exhibit runs until January 25, 2009, and eighteen Inuit drawings (from Baker Lake and Cape Dorset) illustrate a shared at the Salle Alfred-Pellan in Laval, Cape Dorset Sculptures and Others is on display connection in relation to nature, spirituality, and their social environments. It is at Quebec. Shown: Effets de l’alcool, in Paris, France, at Galerie Saint Merri until the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, until January 4, 2009. 2001, Kavavow Pee, Salluit, Nunavik. December 2008. Shown: Composition, 2005, Tukuki Shown: White Man’s Music, 1990, Kananginak Pootoogook, Cape Dorset. c??s6 W, n9o5 r?9o6 Manomie, Cape Dorset. gfr mku, rzw5 vNq8N6 SgA6, rzw5 4 I VOL.23, NO.4 WINTER 2008 INUIT ART QUARTERLY I 5 AT THE GALLERIES Experimental Dorset: Cultivating Colour features new oil sticks on paper by contemporary graphic artists from Cape Dorset. The exhibit — at Feheley Fine Arts in Toronto, Ontario — presents work by such artists as Jutai Toonoo, Annie Pootoogook, Suvinai Ashoona, Siassie Kenneally, Papiara Tukiki, and Kakulu Saggiaktok. Until November 22, Kenojuak: From Drawing to Print includes 22 works (11 drawings 2008.