Winner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding
Achievement in EducationShortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers
Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book
AwardNunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved
self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the
world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most
southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut
have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit
artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a
diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which
they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work. Artists from
the territory have traditionally used stone and woods for carving;
fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass
for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In
recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of
contemporary art media, including painting, drawing, printmaking,
photography, video, and ceramics, while also working with
traditional materials in new and unexpected ways. SakKijAcjuk: Art
and Craft from Nunatsiavut is the first major publication on the
art of the Labrador Inuit. Designed to accompany a major touring
exhibition organized by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of St.
John's, the book features more than 80 reproductions of work by 45
different artists, profiles of the featured artists, and a major
essay on the art of Nunatsiavut by Heather Igloliorte. SakKijAcjuk
-- "to be visible" in the Nunatsiavut dialect of Inuktitut --
provides an opportunity for readers, collectors, art historians,
and art aficionados from the South and the North to come into
intimate contact with the distinctive, innovative, and always
breathtaking work of the contemporary Inuit artists and
craftspeople of Nunatsiavut.
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