Landmark Inuit textile exhibit winds up in January

A landmark exhibit of textiles made by Inuit artists winds up next month after travelling the country and even nabbing a prestigious Governor’s General award. “Looking back at our past accomplishments, provides Kinngait’s current community of Inuit artists with inspiration to continue this important visual arts legacy,” Pingwartok Ottokie, the president of the West Baffin Cooperative said. The historic textiles shown in the exhibit all came from the West Baffin Cooperative archives. The coop’s textile program began in the 1960s and the works were well-received. Roxane Shaughnessy, a curator of printed textiles, was invited by the West Baffin Cooperative to look through their archives in 2016 and the idea of the exhibition was born.