SakKijâjuk
Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2017
- Category
- Canadian, Group Shows, Native American
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780864929747
- Publish Date
- Feb 2017
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
Winner, 2018 Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in Education
Shortlisted, 2018 Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book Award
Nunatsiavut, the Inuit region of Canada that achieved self-government in 2005, produces art that is distinct within the world of Canadian and circumpolar Inuit art. The world's most southerly population of Inuit, the coastal people of Nunatsiavut have always lived both above and below the tree line, and Inuit artists and craftspeople from Nunatsiavut have had access to a diverse range of Arctic and Subarctic flora and fauna, from which they have produced a stunningly diverse range of work.
Artists from the territory have traditionally used stone and woods for carving; fur, hide, and sealskin for wearable art; and saltwater seagrass for basketry, as well as wool, metal, cloth, beads, and paper. In recent decades, they have produced work in a variety of contemporary art media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, and ceramics, while also working with traditional materials in new and unexpected ways.
SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut is the first major publication on the art of the Labrador Inuit. Designed to accompany a major touring exhibition organized by The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery of St. John's, the book features more than 80 reproductions of work by 45 different artists, profiles of the featured artists, and a major essay on the art of Nunatsiavut by Heather Igloliorte.
SakKijâjuk — "to be visible" in the Nunatsiavut dialect of Inuktitut — provides an opportunity for readers, collectors, art historians, and art aficionados from the South and the North to come into intimate contact with the distinctive, innovative, and always breathtaking work of the contemporary Inuit artists and craftspeople of Nunatsiavut.
About the author
Heather Igloliorte (Inuit) Ikajuttiuvuk Ilinniatitsijalligiutluni ammalu Concordia Ilinniavitsuangani Kaujisattiuvuk Itsivautagijautlunillu NunaKakKâsimajunut Allanguattet PiusituKannik ammalu Nunalinni IlauKattajunut Montreal-imi. Immigolingatluni uKâlattiusimalittuk taimanganit 2005. Kaujisajanga ammalu uKâlautigiKattajanga KanuttogutiKaluattuk Inuit ammalu asigiallait nunalituKait Taggâni America takugatsauKattajunut ammalu sanattauKattajunut ilikKuset ammalu pitjutauKattajunut immigolingajunut, pitsatuniKajunut, sakKijânginnatunut ammalu sangijojunut.
Awards
- Short-listed, Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association Best Atlantic Published Book Award
- Winner, Canadian Museums Association Award of Outstanding Achievement in Education
- Nominated, Melva J. Dwyer Award
Editorial Reviews
"SakKijâjuk marks a major historical moment in which we have the privilege of participating, should we have the ability to see and to recognize it."
<i>Border Crossings</i>
"Multifaceted and carefully considered, it sheds light on a world of creative practices that can only begin to be explored here."
<i>Inuit Art Quarterly</i>
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