Artists

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  Curator Krista Ulujuk Zawadski

  

  Curator Krista Ulujuk Zawadski

  Krista Ulujuk Zawadski was raised in Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet) and currently calls Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, her home. Zawadski has an MA in Anthropology from UBC (2016) and has focused her education and career in the heritage sector in Nunavut and in the fields of Arctic anthropology, museology and collections-based research, with an emphasis on fostering accessibility to collections for Inuit. She participated in the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution, the Otsego Institute for Native American Art History at the Fenimore Art Museum and works as a curator for the Government of Nunavut. Zawadski is currently studying at Carleton University in an interdisciplinary PhD program.

  Krista Ulujuk Zawadski a grandi à Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet) et réside actuellement à Rankin Inlet, au Nunavut. Titulaire d’une maîtrise en anthropologie de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique, elle se concentre, tant dans ses études que sa carrière muséale, dans les domaines de l’anthropologie et de la muséologie de l’Arctique; elle s’appuie sur des recherches centrées sur les collections muséales et valorise en particulier l’accessibilité aux collections pour les Inuits. Zawadski a participé à l’institut estival en anthropologie muséale de la Smithsonian Institution, à l’institut Otswego en histoire de l’art autochtone de la galerie d’art Fenimore, et est conservatrice du gouvernement du Nunavut. Krista Ulujuk Zawadski est actuellement inscrite dans un programme interdisciplinaire de 3e cycle à l’Université Carleton.

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  Curator Danielle Printup

  

  Curator Danielle Printup

  Dani Printup (she/her) is a Hodinohso:ni (Onondaga) / Anishinaabe (Algonquin) arts worker and curator from Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg, QC, with maternal roots in Ohsweken, ON. She has a Bachelor of Honors in Art History from the University of Guelph (2012). She has interned at the National Gallery of Canada and completed the RBC Indigenous Training Program in Museum Practices at the Canadian Museum of History. She has worked at Galerie SAW Gallery, the Indigenous Art Centre and the City of Ottawa's Public Art Program. She currently works as the Indigenous Cultural Engagement Coordinator at Carleton University Art Gallery. 

  Active dans le monde des arts, Dani Printup est une conservatrice d’origine hodinohso:ni (Onondaga) et anishinaabe (Algonquin) née à Kitigan Zibi (Québec) et ayant des racines maternelles à Ohsweken (Ontario). Après avoir obtenu un baccalauréat en histoire de l’art à l’Université de Guelph en 2012, elle effectue un stage au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et intègre le Programme de formation en pratiques muséales destiné aux Autochtones de la RBC, au Musée canadien de l’histoire. Elle a été en poste à la Galerie SAW, au Centre d’art autochtone et à la ville d’Ottawa (programme d’art public). Elle est actuellement coordonnatrice au rayonnement de la culture autochtone à la galerie d’art de l’Université Carleton. 

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  Artist Helen Kalvak

  

  Artist Helen Kalvak

  Helen Kalvak (1901-1984) was an Inuinnait graphic artist from Ulukhaktok, NWT. She was born at Tahiryuak Lake, Victoria Island, and moved to Ulukhaktok in 1960, where she began making drawings and helped establish the Holman Eskimo Co-operative. Through her art, she chronicled the traditional lives of the Inuinnait, as well as Inuit oral histories. She was a prolific artist, making more than 1,800 drawings over her life. Between 1965 and 1985, 154 of her drawings were made into prints included in the annual Holman Island print releases, the largest body of published work by an Ulukhaktok artist. Her work is found in many prominent public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of History and Winnipeg Art Gallery. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1975 and appointed to the Order of Canada in 1978.

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  Artist Janet Kigusiuq

  

  Artist Janet Kigusiuq

  The Inuit artist Janet Kigusiuq (1926-2005) was born in the Back River area near Qamani’tuaq (Baker Lake), Nunavut. She is the eldest daughter of Jessie Oonark, one of Baker Lake’s and Canada’s most distinguished artists. Kigusiuq began working as an artist in 1967 and experimented with diverse media over the course of her career, making drawings, fabric wall hangings, stone sculptures and paper collages. Her work was informed by her deep knowledge of traditional Inuit life on the land, as well as Inuit oral histories, and portrays intimate details of the everyday lives of Inuit in camp and in the community. Kigusiuq was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002 and her work is found in many prominent public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of History and Winnipeg Art Gallery.

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  Artist Rita Letendre

  

  Artist Rita Letendre

  Born in 1928 in Drummondville, Québec, Rita Letendre (Abenaki/Québecoise) is an internationally renowned painter, printmaker and muralist. Her painting career began in the 1950s in Montreal, where she associated with the Automatistes and the Plasticiens—both who championed abstraction—and was often the sole woman artist included in their group exhibitions. While in California in the mid-1960s, Letendre was introduced to printmaking at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop and produced her first prints in 1965. She developed parallel printmaking and painting practices from the 1960s onward. Her work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in public and private galleries across Canada and internationally. Letendre was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2005 and received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2010.

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  Artist Freda Diesing

  

  Artist Freda Diesing

  Freda Diesing (1925-2002) was a Haida artist, teacher and mentor from Prince Rupert, B. C. She studied at the Vancouver School of Art and at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art at ‘Ksan Village, and developed a style uniquely her own. Diesing was one of very few First Nations women carvers of totem poles, bowls and masks, among other objects. When she began to make silkscreen prints in the 1970s, her experience as a sculptor translated well onto the two-dimensional surface. Her work is found in prestigious collections including the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, the Canadian Museum of History and the Royal Ontario Museum. In 2002, she received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from the University of Northern British Columbia.

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