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Germaine Arnaktauyok
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Germaine Arnaktauyok
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"I never questioned being an artist."
Germaine Arnaktauyok is renowned for her talents as an illustrator and master printmaker. The daughter of carvers Therese Nattok and Isidore Iytok, she started to draw on any material available while still a
young girl in Igloolik. When she was sent to residential school at Chesterfield Inlet at age nine, she met a nun who gave her art lessons. Germaine sold her first painting at age 11.
Since then she has participated in a variety of courses including
one year at the University of Manitoba in the Fine Arts program and studied commercial art at the Pembroke Campus of Algonquin College in Ottawa. Germaine has also completed a printmaking course sponsored by the Arctic College and Arts Induvik Canada.
She is one of the few Inuit artists with formal art training.
While in Ottawa Germaine Arnaktauyok also illustrated children's books for Northern and Indian Affairs. Her illustrations are also included in children's books from the Baffin Divisional
Board of Education, as well as Hyperion Press in Winnipeg and for Nick Nicol, a Canadian author published in Japan.
The ideas for Germaine's work stem from traditional Inuit legends and from living and witnessing the unique lifestyle of her people.
Her unique, paradoxical character parallels her creative sensibilities: she is a simple woman, yet sophisticated; proud, yet modest; contemporary urban yet traditionally rural. As for subject matter, Germaine is particularly interested in female entities
and concerns- the sea goddess Sedna, creation and birth- which are expressed in very personal ways that humanize the subject.
Germaine's image of an Inuit drum dancer now appears on the 2000 edition of the Canadian $2 coin.
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Germaine Arnaktauyok
Awards
2000 Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, honoured Germaine at a ceremony on Parliament Hill for her creation of "Drummer" and "Mother and Child" designs
Collections
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, MI
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Inuit Art Centre, Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, ON
Musee d'art Inuit Brousseau, Quebec City, QC
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NT
Commissions
1996 Commissioned by Canada's Arctic Ambassador to create a painting for reproduction on posters for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference
1995 Commissioned print was used for the poster of "Iliqqusivut Inuit Spirit of the Arctic", at the Canadian National Exhibition
1995 Commissioned by Pauktuutit to illustrate an educational kit on tobacco
1985 Commissioned by Canadian Living magazine to design two small tapestries
1973 Germaine was commissioned by El Al to make illustrations for promotional posters for the Israeli airline
Credits
2000 Her artwork is also featured on the $200 22K gold coin issued in 2000, of a mother and child image
2000 Her print "Laughter in the Air", 1996, was used on the cover of the Christmas card for the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs
2000 Royal Canadian Mint used "Mother and Child" image for the cover of cards used for the President/Master of Royal Canadian Mint, Danielle Wetherup
2000 Royal Canadian Mint translates "Mother and Child" image to produce a limited edition medal Christmas ornament
1999 Design of drumdancer choosen by Canadian Mint for use on the 1999 commemerative $2 coin celebrating creation of Nunavut, based upon her silkscreen
1999 Work selected for the cover illustration for Nunavut Annual Report "Waiting in Silence, 1993"
1994 "Things in the Sky" was featured on the cover of the 1994-1995 Northwest Territories telephone directory
1976 Glasses featuring original drawings by Arnaktauyok were produced by Dominion Glass Ltd.
Exhibitions
2003 Then and Now - Inuit Prints from 1962-2002, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver Ltd., Vancouver, BC
(illustrated brochure)
2002 Arctic Families: An Exhibition of Inuit Art (Online Exhibition), Galerie Inuit Plus, Timmins, ON
2001 Germaine Arnaktauyok: A New Portfolio of Etching and Aquatints, Arctic Artistry, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1998 Germaine Arnaktauyok, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
1998 Inuit Prints by Germaine Arnaktauyok, Arctic Artistry Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1998 Germaine Arnaktauyok's Millenium Print Collection, Nunavut Legislative Assembly, Iqaluit, NU
1995 Northern Vignettes: The Enchanted Palette of Germaine Arnaktauyok, Ancestral Spirits Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
1994 Creatures of the Sea and Snow, Snow Goose Associates, Seattle, WA
1992 - 93 Arts from the Arctic, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, Anchorage, AK
1992 The Inuit Print and Sculpture 1960-1980, Westdale Gallery, Hamilton, ON
Westdale Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
1989 The Great Northern Arts Festival, Inuvik, NT
1988 Die Kunst aus der Arktis, presented by Inuit Galerie, Mannheim in Gutersloh, Germany
1981 The Inuit Sea Goddess, Surrey Art Gallery, organized to complement the Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit of the same name, Vancouver, BC
1971 - 73 Sculpture/Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic, Canadian Eskimo Arts Council, Ottawa, ON
Publications
1993 Pellerin, Catherine. THE EVOLUTION OF AN ARTIST. Germaine Arnaktauyok. Up-Here, Vol. 9, no. 5
1993 Institute of Alaska Native Arts: ARTS FROM THE ARCTIC: An Exhibition of Circumpolar Art…, Anchorage, AK
1991 Enuaraq, Tommy. WHO'S GOING TO EAT ME?. Nepean, ON : Nortext
1981 Surrey Art Gallery. THE INUIT SEA GODDESS. Surrey. The Surrey Art Gallery
1977 Kappi, Leoni., ed., INUIT LEGENDS. Yellowknife, GNWT., Dept. of Education
1976 NORTHERN PEOPLE: Government of the Northwest Territories
1976 STORIES FROM PANGNIRTUNG:/ Illustrated by Germaine Arnaktauyok. Foreward by Stuart Hodgson. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers
1970 Markoosie. HARPOON OF THE HUNTER. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press
Teaching
1999 Gave demonstrations of stencil making at opening of Iqqaippa: Inuit Art from 1948-1970, Canadian Museum of Civilization
1995 Supervised four Inuit students in Yellowknife, NT on a painting project for an exhibition at the Peace Museum in Hiroshima, Japan
1993 Conducted several workshops on stencil printing as a part of the "Masters of the Arctic" touring exhibition in Dallas, Chicago, and Kyoto, Japan
1993 Gave demonstrations of stencil making at the Dallas Museum of Natural History
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