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The Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary is pleased to support the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts in the presentation of the Welcome-Nunavut Art Exhibition.

Today Nunavut is a reality, and about 25,000 people are working together in 28 communities to structure a society based on traditional Inuit values and contemporary economic and social realities. Nearly 40% of Nunavut's population is under the age of 15, and 84% of the population is Inuit. 66% of the people of Nunavut over the age of 15 are active in the labour force; about 15% are currently unemployed. As the Nunavut Territory grows in the new millennium, it will be crucial to find employment for thousands of new workers. Hopefully, many people will be able to find artistic and creative employment, to carry on the traditions so evident in this show.

Canada is remarkable in that two of the world's last remaining hunting and gathering communities, the Dene and the Inuit, live within its borders. Welcome-Nunavut Art Exhibition celebrates the artistic creations of the Inuit, and demonstrates their continuing appeal to Southerners, trapped as they are in industrial, urban society. The creative expression common to this show flows from the Arctic tundra and ocean homelands, and beckons us all back to our roots as Canadians in a circumpolar world.

Mike Robinson
Executive Director
Arctic Institute of North America
University of Calgary

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