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Eyetoaq married James Kingilik, also a soapstone sculptor, [2] in the early 1950s. [3] They had seven children, five biological and two adopted. [3] In 1968 they moved from their traditional Inuit camp at Beverly Lake to the Baker Lake settlement. [2] [3] After moving, they lived in a tent for two months due to a lack of housing. [3]
However the nature and functions of Inuit carvings changed rapidly after contact with European and European-Canadian society. This change accelerated after around 1949, when Inuit began settling into communities, and the Canadian government began to encourage a carving industry as a source of income for the Inuit. The art changed markedly from ...
Modern Inuit art began in the late 1940s, when with the encouragement of the Canadian government they began to produce prints and serpentine sculptures for sale in the south. Greenlandic Inuit have a unique textile tradition intregrating skin-sewing, furs, and appliqué of small pieces of brightly dyed marine mammal organs in mosaic designs ...
Inukpuk’s wife, Mary, had a hare-lip, which he depicted in several of his sculptures of mother-and-child. The drilled eyes of his earlier works were eventually replaced by soapstone and ivory inlay; black eyes were made from melted vinyl records. [3] In 1953, Inukpuk began carving green stone.
Ilisituk was born on January 2, 1933, [2] and began carving in 1954, using light gray stone from the Kovik River. [3] He also created prints. [ 3 ] Ilisituk died in 2012.
From May to September 2014, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in New York, a Smithsonian affiliate, hosted "The World of Man, Animals and Spirits: A Personal Interpretation" which includes about twenty sculptures in soapstone and bronze in which Ruben "contrasts the ancient lives of two northern peoples-Norse adventurers and Inuit (Inuvialuit ...
Kavik was born in Sanikluaq. [2] In 1968, the Lofthouse Galleries in Ottawa staged a solo exhibition of Kavik's work. [3] [4]Kavik's work is held in several museums worldwide, including the British Museum, [5] the National Gallery of Canada, [6] the University of Michigan Museum of Art, [7] the Winnipeg Art Gallery, [8] and the National Museum of the American Indian. [9]
Angutitok used soapstone, ivory and whalebone in her art. Some of her sculptures portray scenes from the Bible; she was encouraged by Father Bernie Franzen. She also created sculptures of female figures. [1] In 2002, Canada Post created a Christmas stamp based on her sculpture Mary and Child. [2] [5]