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It is Bright, It is Lit: Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, Manitoba
It is Bright, It is Lit: Qaumajuq, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Inuk exhibition designer and architecture student Nicole Luke discusses the significance of Qaumajuq and its inaugural exhibition, INUA.
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PROJECT Qaumajuq
PHOTOS Lindsey Reid
It has been a year full of anticipation as Qaumajuq has come to completion in downtown Winnipeg. From the surrounding streets, passersby could see into the lobby and watch Inuit carvings being placed in the gallery’s visible vault, adding to local curiosity about this new place and what was happening inside.
Qaumajuq (pronounced KOW-ma-yourq or HOW-ma-yourk) means “it is bright, it is lit” in Inuktitut. It is the world’s first building dedicated to contemporary Inuit art, and will become a hub that connects Canada’s North to its southern regions. Designed by Los Angeles-based Michael Maltzan Architecture in collaboration with Winnipeg firm Cibinel Architecture, the four-storey extension
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Arctic Journal
Transforming northern culture into global fashions
A white wedding gown adorns a dressmaker’s mannequin in Martha Kyak’s sewing room. Its fitted bodice drapes in long, white tails in front and back, like the traditional
akuq on Inuit women’s
amautiit. The satin fabric is covered in tiny opalescent beads and sequins, patiently handsewn in paisley‐like swirls. A skirt of white tulle spills out from behind the
akuq, flaunting a modern mix of northern and southern culture and style.
The wedding dress is stunning, elegant, and unique. It is haute couture, something you would see on a fashion runway in Paris or New York. This kind of chic design is undoubtedly Inuit. Kyak calls it InukChic the name of her fashion design firm.
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It’s August, 1818, and two British naval ships are dodging icebergs in Baffin Bay on their mission to find the Northwest Passage. John Ross, commanding the HMS
Isabella, and William Parry in the HMS
Alexander are farther north along the western Greenland coast than any previous explorers. They assume this land of glaciers and stark mountains is uninhabited.
But they’re wrong.
They spy several figures running on a hill near shore. Ross assumes they’re shipwrecked sailors in need of rescue, and he steers the
Isabella to get closer. But they turn out to be Native people, a community of Inughuit living farther north than Europeans believed was physically possible.