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The Welcome-Nunavut Art Exhibition celebrates the signing - on April 1, 1999 - of the historic agreement between the Federal Government of Canada and the Inuit people to create the new Canadian Territory of Nunavut. Made up of the massive east and central portions of what used to be the Northwest Territories, Nunavut contains some of the Canadian Arctic's major arts centres: Cape Dorset, Pangnirtung, Baker Lake, and Rankin Inlet, to name just a few.

The Inuit people of Canada, living a difficult existence in a harsh climate, have developed a unique art form, which has won for them international praise and acclaim. With minimum of resources the Inuit artists have created a strong and vigorous art, which combines fantasy with realism, delicacy with strength, and humour with intensity.

Drawing from the extensive holdings of the Glenbow Museum, Nickle Arts Museum, University of Lethbridge Art Collection, the Arctic Institute of North America, and private collections, the exhibition at the Arctic Institute of North America will celebrate the past and present achievements of artists from the Nunavut region. The second segment held at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts features contemporary sculpture, stonecut prints, engravings, drawings, skin stencils and lino cuts by internationally acclaimed Inuit artists.

The artwork is a vivid reminder of the creative sensibility that has enabled the Inuit to survive for some 2000 years. The Inuit have formed a solid cultural and social base that will enable them to retain their identity as a people in the 21st century.

Jacek Malec
Director
Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts

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