Conceived and presented as a project that foregrounds Inuit voices, expertise, and engagement, the Textile Museum of Canada’s partnership with the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative made possible a process of collaboration with the Kinngait community, resulting in mutually beneficial research, educational programs, and an exhibition tour.
Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way.
It's one of the largest and most significant donations The Rooms has ever received: nearly 400 prints by dozens of Inuit artists. For 30 years, artist and master printmaker William Ritchie kept a copy of every print he worked on at the historic Kinngait Studios. Now he's gifting the whole collection to The Rooms.