2006-06-18 04:00:00 PDT Cape Dorset, Nunavut-- It's a sunny spring day, and some of Canada's best artists are sending up smoke signals all over a tiny town at the southwestern end of Baffin Island.

Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way. Kinngait, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spanning from Alaska through the circumpolar regions of Canada, to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), ᐆᒻᒪᖁᑎᒃ uummaqutik: essence of life invites meditations on the rhythms of life particular to these ...

This fall, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art’s Native art collection — once consigned to a far corner — will be front and center in a new show. By Christy Choi In a fast-paced world, asinnajaq likes to ...

The landscapes and seascapes of the Arctic appear bleak and barren to those unfamiliar with the region, but Inuit know that they teem with life. Sea mammals and fish are abundant beneath the ice, and ...

Inuit artists share their lives and culture from the Arctic through an artistic alphabet, available for free at the Art Inuit Gallery from March 26 to August 31, 2026. It's a part of the world we know ...

Offering work by both well known and lesser known artists, Discover Inuit Art includes sculpture and graphics selected both for their appeal as well as for their accessible price point. The auction ...

Below, we explore some of the standout lots, which you can see along with each sale’s complete offerings with Waddington’s. In the present work, Inuk artist Jessie Oonark (1906–1985) taps the rich ...