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Kenojuak Ashevak RIP

Kenojuak Ashevak died Tuesday in Cape Dorset Nunavut at age 85. Perhaps you don’t know her name, but when you visualize what we think of today as  Inuit art, the images you’re thinking of may well have been created by her. Kenojuak had all the honours, from Order of Canada to Walk of Fame. Her most famous image may have been The Enchanted Owl, which was featured on a Canada Post postage stamp in 1970. Many of her works are in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.  The small community in which she lived, Cape Dorset, even became known as the Inuit Art Capital. What a remarkable achievement!

 

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