UPCOMING EXHIBITION!

 

Next week we will begin installing  ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios.

The exhibition presents the story of a group of Inuit artists and printmakers who produced a collection of graphic textiles in Kinngait, (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) in the 1950s and 60s. The Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios includes over 60 printed textiles artworks from different Inuit artists and printmakers, and it depicts legends, stories, and traditional ways of life of Inuit community.

This exhibition will open on May 26, 2022.
Check the exhibition page for updates here.

Curatorial Lead: Roxane Shaughnessy
Project Partner: West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative
Project Advisor: West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative Art Committee and Dr. heather IgIoliorte.

Organized and circulated by the Textile Museum of Canada with the support of the Museum Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage. Reproduced with the permission of Dorset Fine Arts.