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“I started drawing after other people around here had already started. Nobody asked me to draw. Because my son’s wife died when their two children were very young, his children used to be with me....
#WomensHistoryMonth #5WomenArtists @artcaninstitute #Pitseolak #PitseolakAshoona
Recently added to Nanooq’s Cape Dorset Prints collection, Shuvinai Ashoona’s illustrative “Arctic Evening” (2003) and Story Boots (2012). Find them here https://t.co/Crntmc9MTa
#ShuvinaiAshoona developed her own personal iconography—can you guess which figures in this drawing are part of it?: https://t.co/D2squPIxxW
Featured at the @NatGalleryCan 2017 Canadian Biennial (open today): #ShuvinaiAshoona and #SharyBoyle’s mixed-media drawing collaboration
For #narwhalweek, Pitseolak Ashoona (Inuit, 1904–1983), "Legend of the Narwhal," 1968. Kinggait, Nunavut, Canada. 26/406 1/
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᔾᔪᑎᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᒥ Word of the day
ᑐᐱᖅᑐᖅ tupiqtuq
Putting up the tent
(📷 Mayoreak Ashoona’s Putting up the Tent)
ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᖅ Word of the day
ᓴᙱᓂᖅ sannginiq:
to be strong
ᓄᑭᖃᕐᓂᖅ nukiqarniq:
to have strength
(image: Shuvinai Ashoona's Head Pull)
#ShuvinaiAshoona’s drawings are a mash-up of mythical creatures, horror film, comics + TV refs. Learn more on Fri: https://t.co/imYN7uIdDT
Though my personal bias is Pitseolak Ashoona (I would like to see the entire bill designed in this style.)
ACI's latest #ebook on Inuit artist #PitseolakAshoona released today! Download free here: http://t.co/ipgHhvrlUr