The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) will on 27 March mark the public opening of its Qaumajuq centre, a $C65m ($52.4m) extension of its downtown building that features a ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s when Inuit art was introduced to southern Canada's art scene, the federal government established a trademark to protect artists' work from copycats. That trademark, ...

The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is inviting everyone to celebrate the opening of one of Canada’s most long-awaited and groundbreaking museums, Qaumajuq, with a virtual celebration and free days on ...

The 1950s and ‘60s were a time of major change for the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. “People were more and more moving from their nomadic camp lifestyles into communities,” explains Maija Lutz, the ...

Consider it, "Tradition in Transition: Inuit Art & Culture," your introduction to the Inuit. Once known as Eskimos, the Inuit people preserve their traditions through their art and stories told by one ...

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 question of authenticity in Inuit art is a complicated one, and I found myself grappling with it as I took in the current show of Annie Pootoogook's drawings at the Power Plant Contemporary Art ...

Dozens of objects make up Donald Ellis Gallery's exhibition of art by the indigenous people of North America's arctic region. The presence of art from the arctic region in the collection of ...

In the midst of a long brutal winter, it’s good to remember that beauty can be found in frozen places. The work of art that Tim and Joy Reade recently brought to a Trash or Treasure appraisal held at ...

Greenlandic women are transforming the Arctic's art scene and releasing their Indigenous identity from its colonial past. They're pushing for visibility and representation through their craft.

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 ...