Photo courtesy AGGP

By Erika Rolling

FNMI Art Exhibit

Award winning Inuit textile exhibit on display in Art Gallery of Grande Prairie

Jun 8, 2022 | 2:10 PM

Photo courtesy AGGP

ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, is now on display for the public to view in Grande Prairie.

The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie is showing the exhibit produced by The Textile Museum of Canada and its partner the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. Over 60 textiles, papers, and prints that depict Inuit graphic art traditions, archival photos, and new work by three Inuk fashion designers working today are included in the exhibit.

The Textile exhibit tells a story of a group of Inuit artists and printmakers that made a collection of graphic textiles in Kinngait, (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) in the 1950s and ’60s, a time period of social change which interfered with traditional language and relationship to the land.

ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios won the 2021 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums: History Alive! for the Museum and WBEC. The Award is through a partnership with the Canadian Museums Association and Canada’s History Society.

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Manar Abo Touk, Curator, Exhibitions, and Collections at AGGP are excited to have the award-winning exhibition in Grande Prairie in a news release.”It was an honour and a pleasure working with Roxane and the Textile Museum team to bring this amazing exhibition to the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie and to share its story with our community,”

The Inuit textile art exhibit will be on display until September 18, 2022.

Photo courtesy AGGP