As the colder weather signals winter, our thoughts at theBrooklyn Museum often turn to our Inuit pri

As the colder weather signals winter, our thoughts at theBrooklyn Museum often turn to our Inuit print collection from the frigidregions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region and Cape Dorset (now called Kinngait inInuktitut- the local language). We are fortunate enough to have six of the veryfirst 1959 prints Cape Dorset ever made by those pioneering artists; Niviaksiak,Osuitok Ipeelee, Kellypalik Mangitak, Joseph Eegyuva, Kenojuak Ashevakand and LuktaQiaksuk. We often rotate exhibitions of these early Inuit prints plus other contemporaryartists’ prints and drawings in our Luce Center for Visible Art and in thegallery, Life, Death and Transformation, both located on the fifth floor of theMuseum. The collaborative Cape Dorset printmaking tradition hascontinued for 56 years in a unique procedure. Most artists producetheir drawings at home and bring them into the Kinngait Studio at Cape Dorset. Thestudio today conserves thousands of these original drawings. Each year Inuitprintmakers choose from the most current drawings what becomes the limitededition print series. Men, women, old and young can all submit their very best.Depictions can be traditional scenes, historical events, very contemporaryhappenings or abstractions with an Inuit viewpoint. The much anticipatededitions are highly desirable, selling out quickly to collectors and all art aficionados!For this 56th year, 31 limited prints are being released anddistributed by our co-presenters, Fehely Fine Arts in Toronto and Alaska on Madison in New York City.We are delighted that two of this year’s artists, Saimaiyu Akesukand Papiara Tukiki, are traveling to the Brooklyn Museum and will be here forThe Cape Dorset Print Legacy: A Panel Discussion. Thisspecial event corresponds with the 2015 International release of the 56thAnnual Print Collection. Through the generosity of Dorset Fine Arts we arebeing gifted with a print from these two artists for our collection so ourprint Inuit collection will be continued. Do come, meet the artists, andcelebrate with us on Sunday, Oct. 18.Posted by Susan Zeller -- source link

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