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Seeing the World through Stories: The Aquatint Etchings of Germaine Arnaktauyok, July 2009
Imagining Nanuq: An Exhibition of the Polar Bear in Art, February 2009
Germaine Arnaktauyok
17. Jun 05Seeing the World through Stories
The Aquatint Etchings of Germaine Arnaktauyok
July 15 through September 1, 2009
Born in 1946, near the village of Igloolik in the Canadian Arctic, Arnaktauyok is well known for her drawings, etchings, and children's book illustrations, as well as for her designs for two Canadian coins. Arnaktauyok's drawings and etchings have been shown throughout Canada, the U.S., and Japan, and are in the permanent collections of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Musee d'art Inuit Brousseau, the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center, and other museums.
The richly textured and colored aquatint etchings in this exhibition reflect Arnaktauyok's love of story, as well as her devotion to her traditional Inuit culture. She brings a perspective both mythic and intimate to her interpretation of stories that include shape-shifting polar bears, how caribou came to be, the origin of the sun and moon, and how, in the old days, igloos could fly.
Even Arnaktauyok's object studies have a narrative essence. Her images of items such as kayaks, ivory combs, and a shaman's coat have the sacred presence of artifacts that tell stories about a people and a place that most of us will never know.
Like the traditional Inuit shaman who mediates between worlds, Arnaktauyok's powerful imagery can take us to a far away Arctic land in which the old, magical stories are still alive.
Imagining Nanuq Exhibition
07. Jul 09A Selection of Work from Imagining Nanuq: An Exhibition of the Polar Bear in Art
February 14 to March 28, 2009
5% of Profits Donated to the NRDC's Polar Bear SOS
Navigating by the Stars: Art Inspired by the Night Sky
Selected work from "Navigating by the Stars: Art Inspired by the Night Sky" a group exhibition featuring the work of Germaine Arnaktauyok, Elizabeth Delgatty, Tallmadge Doyle, Gudrun Benedikta Eliasdottir, Julie Fraenkel, Lynda Goldberg, Allie High, Marc Lisle, Jackie Morris, Peter Olson, Olivia Parker, and Randall Stoltzfus.
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