By Leslie Boyd Ryan

Since the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative was formed in Cape Dorset in 1959, the artists of this Baffin Island community have made over one hundred thousand original drawings and thousands of limited edition prints. The original catalyst for this artistic outpouring was a government program designed to encourage the production and sale of Inuit handicrafts. Cape Dorset Prints: A Retrospective is the first book to tell the story of the Kinngait Studios’ fifty-year history, through thirteen essays by the artists, visiting artists, art historians, and Co-op founders.

With their images of the many species of Arctic wildlife, shamans, hunters, and traditional camp life, the Cape Dorset graphic artists convey the mystique of Canada’s far north. Using stonecut, engraving, lithography, and other printmaking media, these images speak eloquently of the natural rhythms of the Arctic environment, narrating not only the interplay between species but also the growing modernization of the Cape Dorset community.

304 pages with over 200 full-color reproductions and black-and-white photographs. Smyth-sewn casebound book with jacket. Size: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2".
 

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Published: April 2005
Paperback
144 pp., 80 illus., 70 in color, map, bibliog., 8.5 x 10 in.

Derek Norton & Nigel Reading of Spirit Wrestler Gallery worked in collaboration with the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative to complete this work. The authors provide vital background infomation on the art and artists of Cape Dorset. The artists contribute stories and personal insights about their sculptures.

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This is the first comprehensive book about the Arctic's mysterious stone figures called inuksuit, as told by Inuit elders to author Norman Hallendy. Softcover, 127 pages, includes 52 photographs.

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Baleen basketry of the North Alaskan Eskimo.

Baskets made of baleen, the fibrous substance found in the mouths of plankton-eating whales were first created by Alaskan Natives in the early years of the twentieth century.

82 pages

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Published by the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

74 pages

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