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60/150: Kenojuak Ashevak: Life and Legacy Exhibition

With a career spanning more than five decades, Cape Dorset artist Kenojuak Ashevak (1927) was the matriarch of a pioneering generation of Arctic creators. Six Part Harmony, 2012 The Inuit printmaker was a national treasure who died in 2013. Kenouak was born in an igloo on the southern coast of Baffin Island in 1927, and is considered one of Canada’s most influential artists. The Enchanted…

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53/150: Shuvinai Ashoona

Contemporary Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona (1961) is on exhibition in New York with new works this fall, a celebration of her role as the third generation in a dynasty of renowned female artists from Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), a hamlet on the southern tip of Baffin Island in the Canadian arctic. Installation view, New York exhibition, Fort Gansevoort The arts heritage of that region of…