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Goota Ashoona, Cape Dorset Carver. I am determined to continue the family tradition, to celebrate the artistic achievements of my family, and to keep alive the stories, memories, and skill of my parents and grandmother.
Jamie Look creates bold, statement jewelry by matching innovative design with northern materials such as Muskox Horn, caribou antler, whalebone and ivory with various metals and semi-precious stones. She is currently one of ten visual artists selected from the NWT who will attending the Vancouver 2010 Olympics as a Cultural Ambassador with the Visual Artist Contingent. Well-known for her runway fashion shows, which have not only highlighted her work but des.
Julia spent most of her adult life in the South Slave region where she and her husband Max ran a busy gas station and restaurant just south of the Mackenzie River crossing and raised a family. Moose and Caribou Hair Tufting. Gallery of the Midnight Sun.
The Cape Dorset sculptural style is a combination of observational naturalism and reduction to stylistic and sometimes abstract forms. Many of his carvings depict animated bears or other arctic animals. The images vary between strong realism to artistic interpretations that capture the spirit of the animals and land his is carving. Gallery of the Midnight Sun.
I tend to find myself drawn to things which involve people travel, art, culture, my family and my community. My own art work seems to have evolved from those interests. Recently northern art documentaries on Bob and his family were posted on the internet at the short film and documentary site You Tube . In early 2009 they were featured in the Canadian arts magazine Galleries West and the federal tourism magazine Pure Canada which was over a quarter of a.