Our Projects...
Web-based Inuit Art Histories serve as a:
- repatriation of artworks through new technology
- professional development tool for artists who mainly work in isolation
- research tool for scholars, dealers, and collectors
- inspiration for emerging Inuit artists as they build on the accomplishments of their forbearers
- portfolio for living artists
- source of information for communities interested in their artistic heritage
- compensation for the lack of galleries, libraries, and art schools in Canadian arctic communities
- bridge to connect Inuit with each other and the rest of the world
Nunavik Art Alive
Nunavik Art Alive aims to fill a historical gap by presenting the arts of Nunavik past and present. Not only did art for export begin in Nunavik, but it is a continuing important activity among Nunavamiut, and individual talents are flourishing.
Nunavik North of Sixty
Discussions and exhibitions of art by Inuit from Nunavik are usually focused on the larger communities of Inukjuak and Puvirnituq. Nunavik North of Sixty features sculpture that has been created in several of the smaller Inuit communities located above the 60th parallel on the Ungava Peninsula in the region of Nunavik, Northern Quebec.
Inuit Art Alive.ca
Launched in June 2009, Inuit Art Alive.ca, a survey of the outstanding art produced over half a century, is the first web art history produced by the Inuit Art Foundation.
Comprised of over 1,000 images of artwork and profiles, interviews, text, and video, this site has become the model for regional and community art histories to follow.
Inukjuak Art History
While Inukjuak Art History conforms to a template established by Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), it allowed the Inuit Art Foundation to organize extensive research on the birthplace of Inuit art.