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News: Read our past newsletters, August 30, 2024

Read our past newsletters

August 30, 2024

Click on the links below to read our past newsletters from June 2021 to the present.  Earlier newsletters can be found in earlier items on the News page.

August 2024, featuring four shamans and an environmental protest piece by  Billy Nasogaluak.

April 2024, featuring an important mother and child by John Kavik and an ivory composition by Ike Kulowiyi.

December 2023, featuring a dramatic contemporary button blanket by  Haida artist Hazel Wilson.

November 2023, featuring two majestic Sednas.

May 2023, featuring a scene from Cape Dorset life by Annie Pootoogook, and an article about deciphering Inuktitut signatures.

December 2022, featuring Ruth Qaulluryuk's Hundreds and Hundreds of Caribou.

November 2022, featuring three prints by Kiakshuk, one by PItseolak Ashoona, one by Sheokjuk Etidlooie, and one by Tudlik, all showing facets of camp life.

August 2022, describing a visit to Qaumajuq, the new building devoted to Inuit Art at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

June 2022, featuring a spectacular caribou skull-and-antler carving by Manasie Akpaliapik and two early prints of children playing with dogs, by Parr and his wife, Eleeshushe Parr.

April 2022, featuring two more works inspired by the legend of Lumiuk, a massive sculpture by Mattiusie Iyaituk and an early print by Kiakshuk.

December 2021, featuring Pitseolak Ashoona's Festive Bird.

October 2021, featuring a satirical carving attributed to Joanasie Salomonie.

Augut 2021, featuring a dynamic sculpture of a woman jigging for fish by Qavaroak Tunnillie.

June 2021, featuring a great Adamie Ashevak bear and a seminal mother-and-child carving from the early 1950s, attributed to Isa Smiler.

 

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News: Read our April 2021 Newsletter, August 30, 2024

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August 30, 2024

Read our April 2021 Newsletter, featuring three whimsical prints, by Pudlo Pudlat, Angotigolu Teevee and Pitseolak Ashoona.

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News: Read our March 2021 Newsletter, March 13, 2021

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March 13, 2021

Read our March 2021 newsletter, featuring three carvings by first generation master carver Osuitok Ipeelee and a discussion of the stones of Cape Dorset

News: Read our February 2021 Newsletter, February 21, 2021

Read our February 2021 Newsletter

February 21, 2021

Read our February 2021 newsletter, featuring a flock of bird prints

News: Read our January 2021 Newsletter, December 31, 2020

Read our January 2021 Newsletter

December 31, 2020

Read our January 2021 newsletter, featuring Pitseolak Ashoona's Festive Bird

News: Read our December 2020 Newsletter, December 13, 2020

Read our December 2020 Newsletter

December 13, 2020

Read our December 2020 newsletter, featuring a muscular bear by Henry Evaluardjuk

Climate change has profoundly transformed Arctic, report warns

December 8, 2020 - Andrew Freedman in Washington Post

Global warming has profoundly transformed Arctic in just 15 years, report warns

The Arctic as we once knew it, an inhospitable, barely accessible and icebound place, is gone. Climate change has transformed it into a region that can heat up to 100 degrees, is beset by ferocious wildfires, and is covered in permafrost that is no longer permanent. The sea ice cover that has long defined the Far North is fast disappearing. This is the picture from a new international scientific assessment released Tuesday.

 

The 2020 Arctic Report Card, a report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) involving 133 scientists from 15 countries, points to trends that, with each passing year, have grown more extreme and have far-reaching implications for people living far outside the region, including in the Lower 48 states.

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News: Read our November 2020 Newsletter, November 16, 2020

Read our November 2020 Newsletter

November 16, 2020

Read our November 2020 newsletter, featuring early stencils by Niviaxiak and Kellypalik Mungitok

News: Read our October 2020 Newsletter, October 14, 2020

Read our October 2020 Newsletter

October 14, 2020

Read our October 2020 newsletter, featuring four prints by Kiakshuk

News: Read our July 2020 Newsletter, July 14, 2020

Read our July 2020 Newsletter

July 14, 2020

Read our July 2020 newsletter, featuring a masterwork by an under-appreciated Arctic Quebec carver, Thomassie Tookalook and suggestions for your Inuit art library