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	Kenojuak Ashevak - Women Artists in Canada - Celebrating Women's Achievements
		Kenojuak's life was put on hold in her early twenties however, when she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to recover, for three years, in a Québec City hospital.
		Kenojuak received high praise for her work, and she and Johnniebo welcomed the second source of revenue as insurance against failed hunts.
		Kenojuak's drawings were among the first by an Inuk woman to be transferred to a template for printing.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-502-e.html (924 words)

	Famous Native American Women - Kenojuak
		Although remembered by Kenojuak as a kind and benevolent man, her father caused conflict within the Ikerrasak camp and was murdered by its other members in 1933.
		Kenojuak's financial success, however, was not always admired within her own community.
		Kenojuak's unwillingness to view herself primarily as an artist is consistent with the traditional Inuit culture; living conditions demanded that men and women develop competence in a wide range of skills in order to survive.
	www.nativeamericanrhymes.com /women/kenojuak.htm (1428 words)

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		Kenojuak is the recipient of two honorary doctorates and is the subject of several books and a film about her art and life.
		For this spiritual setting, Kenojuak created an image of bounty, praising the munificence of nature: "I came up with the owl; the owl is always around - in summer, spring and in winter - and fish is a main source of food everywhere and in all seasons.
		Kenojuak's works on paper in this exhibition are filled with birds as well as human images and some mythological subjects such as Sedna.
	www.feheleyfinearts.com /gallery/exhibitions/kenojuak/kenojuak.shtml (355 words)

	Artist profile: Kenojuak Ashevak
		Born in 1927, in Ikirisaq, Northwest Territories, Kenojuak Ashevak spent most of her life living on the land in a manner not unlike her ancestors, traveling from camp to camp on South Baffin and Arctic Quebec, as hunting dictated.
		Kenojuak is more concerned with the overall composition and aesthetics of the work as it evolves while she draws.
		Although it is not likely that Kenojuak was exposed to any influence from European artists of late nineteenth century, one can interestingly draw a parallel between the transition her style effected as she went from appliqué designs to drawings and prints, and the influence of Paul Gauguin’s woodblock prints on his 1890s paintings.
	www.uleth.ca /artgallery/TWAM/vr1/bioKenojuak.htm (2179 words)

	Aboriginal Planet - Inuit Artist Kenojuak Ashavak celebrates the fifth anniversary of the establishment of Nunavut in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kenojuak Ashevak, one of Canada's most prominent Inuit artists, visited Germany from March 25-April 04 as a special guest to attend celebrations for the 5th anniversary of the establishment of Nunavut.
		What made the evening special for all who participated was the presence of Kenojuak Ashevak, and the opportunity for the audience to meet her and learn first-hand about her personal history, her life in the Arctic and her artistic career.
		Ashevak's work was featured with a cover story in the current issue of a leading German art magazine, another highlight of her tour.
	dfait-maeci.gc.ca /aboriginalplanet/archives/may2004/art5_main-en.asp (454 words)

	Kenojuak Ashevak
		Kenojuak Ashevak, artist (b at Ikerrasak camp, S Baffin I, NWT 3 Oct 1927).
		Her drawings, primarily of birds, are characterized by a strong sense of composition, colour, design and draughtsmanship.
		Kenojuak became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1974 and was given a 30-year retrospective of her work at the MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Gallery (Kleinburg, Ont) in 1986.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004274 (191 words)

	Cape Dorset Artists
		Kenojuak’s drawings were immediately captivating, and she has been represented in almost every annual print collection since 1959.
		Kenojuak's print Nunavut Qajanatuk (Our Beautiful Land) was commissioned by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada to commemorate the signing of the Inuit Land Claim Agreement in Principle, in April 1990.
		In the spring of 2001, Kenojuak was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, and traveled with her daughter Silaqi to attend the ceremonies in Toronto.
	www.dorsetfinearts.com /artist_kenojuak.html (724 words)

	ANSGAR WALK: ZUR INUIT - KULTUR
		The works of Kenojuak Ashevak have long been a feature in many major museums in the world; her pictures and stone carvings are much sought after by collectors and they obtain high prices; her designs adorn Canadian postage stamps and coins.
		Kenojuak Ashevak and print studio manager Jimmy Manning were invited to all these cere-monial occasions as the territory's official representatives by the German-Canadian Associa-tion on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Nunavut, the Hon.
		Kenojuak, still born in an igloo, grown up in nomad camps and never been to school, who had lived for many years in an arctic settlement with 1,300 souls, calmly answered the ques-tions and patiently signed her biography, for sale in the museum shop, and many postcards of her works.
	www.ansgar-walk.de /uploads/html/kenojuak_eng.htm (1216 words)

	Artists For Kids Gallery - Kenojuak Ashevak, Loons Protect The Owl
		As a very young woman, Kenojuak was married to Johnniebo and lived with him in various camps including Keakto, a scenic area of rolling hills and inland lakes near Cape Dorset.
		Kenojuak's work has been represented in the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative 's annual print collection since 1959 and has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Canada, the United States and in Europe since that time.
		In 1992 Kenojuak was awarded Honorary degrees from both Queens University and the University of Toronto and in 1995, she received the Lifetime Aboriginal Achievement Award in Vancouver.
	www.artists4kids.com /artists/ashevak.php (504 words)

	Kenojuak Ashevak - Les femmes artistes au Canada - Femmes à l'honneur : leurs réalisations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kenojuak a grandi en voyageant d'un camp de chasse à l'autre sur l'île de Baffin et dans la région de Nunavik, dans le Nord québécois.
		Cependant, la vie de Kenojuak a été mise en suspens, au début de la vingtaine, lorsqu'elle a contracté la tuberculose et qu'elle a dû se faire soigner, pendant trois ans, dans un hôpital de Québec.
		Kenojuak reçoit beaucoup d'éloges pour son travail; Kenojuak et Johnniebo accueillent cette deuxième source de revenus comme une assurance contre les mauvaises chasses.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /femmes/002026-502-f.html (1067 words)

	Canada's Walk of Fame: Kenojuak Ashevak, painter, sculptor, artist
		As journalist Anne-Marie Sigouin later observed, the neophyte Kenojuak's style underwent "an extensive, but swift progression from tentative beginnings to accomplished, confident, and individualistic expression." Originally working in graphite on typing paper, she was, by the mid-1960s, using coloured pencils and felt-tip pens.
		Recognition of Kenojuak's superb talents began as early as 1962, when she was the subject of a National Film Board documentary.
		Besides her induction in Canada's Walk of Fame, Kenojuak Ashevak has received some two dozen honours for her contributions to Canadian art and culture, including the Order of Canada in 1967 and honorary degrees from Queen's University in Kingston and the University of Toronto.
	canadaswalkoffame.com /inductees/01_kenojuak_ashevak.xml.htm (695 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		He decided to submit Ashevak's work because "I realized that in the art work of Kenojuak Ashevak I found the truly Canadian art form that couldn't be found anywhere else," Kats, who speaks Russian, said through his son and interpreter Roman.
		But when Ashevak was told last winter her work was to be placed on a coin her reaction was "Why me? My prints aren't very good," she said through an interpreter.
		After Kats and Ashevak were presented with framed oversized coin, the pair exchanged autographs and Kats proclaimed he would mount the piece on the most prominent wall in his home.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut990427/nvt90409_09.html (638 words)

	Dorset artist helps light shine through
		Ashevak visited the school in the spring and spent a few days on campus, talking with students through an interpreter, when she was in the process of designing the window.
		It features one of Ashevak's trademark owls with an Arctic char swimming beneath it against a backdrop of brilliant blue, which happens to be the school's colour.
		Ashevak's window, which is located in the northwest corner of the chapel, is the last window to be installed in the chapel.
	www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2004-11/nov15_04art.html (700 words)

	Lesson 2: Inuit artists are inspired by the world around them
		Kenojuak is an artist who uses symmetry in her work, but there is always some element of variation.
		Just like you, Kenojuak draws the things that are important to her, things that she is familiar with, things that are around her - or in her world.
		Kenojuak is shown with her family in an igloo and in a skin tent.
	www.uleth.ca /sfa-gal/TWAM/edu/lesson2.htm (1611 words)

	Exhibition: Kenojuak Ashevak: Form & Colour
		Kenojuak Ashevak is internationally renowned for her tremendous accomplishments and contributions to Inuit art.
		Kenojuak focuses on the process and aesthetics of drawing more than on the specifics of Inuit life and her memories.
		This exhibition highlights their most recent gift of 2002, in which Kenojuak is represented by the largest number of works by any artist in the donation.
	www.ago.net /info/ago_exhibitions/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=2625 (193 words)

	Hill's Native Art - Native Artist's Bios - Kenojuak Ashevak
		Like many Inuit artists, Kenojuak Ashevak has spent most of her life living on the land in a manner not unlike that of her ancestors.
		Kenojuak first began experimenting with drawing and stone carving in the late 1950s.
		Kenojuak Ashevak has been accorded many honours for her achievements.
	hillsnativeart.com /artists/biosdetail.php?recordIDArtistsDetail=0018 (185 words)

	"Woman with Her Dog (1988)" by Kenojuak Ashevak, Kinngait (Cape Dorset) art at Spirit Wrestler Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kenojuak Ashevak was among the first women to participate in the arts projects in Cape Dorset and contributed to the first release of Inuit prints in 1959.
		Sculpture of the Inuit: Masterworks of the Canadian Arctic" exhibition (1971—73) that toured the world, and she is still a major force in the art of Cape Dorset (and of the Arctic).
		Three of Kenojuak’s images appeared on Canadian postage stamps, and her 1960 print, The Enchanted Owl, is an icon of Canadian art, appearing in numerous publications and on a Canadian stamp.
	www.spiritwrestler.com /catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_8_27&products_id=798 (208 words)

	Kenojuak Ashevak presented by Houston North Gallery
		Kenojuak Ashevak, an Inuk, is known as the "Visual Poet of the Arctic." In her early 20s, she began to draw while recovering from tuberculosis.
		Her creations - mythical images of birds, animals and people - were an astonishing blend of realism and imagination that captivated Canada and the world during the 1960s and 1970s.
		One of her most famous images, "The Enchanted Owl," appeared on the 1970 six-cent stamp and is on display at the National Gallery of Canada.
	www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca /Kenojuak.html (194 words)

	Kenojuak Ashevak Drawings
		Kenojuak Ashevak was born in 1927 at a traditional camp named Ikirisaq, in the southern area of Baffin Island.
		One of her most successful works from 1960 is entitled "The Enchanted Owl," which was commemorated in a postage stamp to mark the centennial of the Northwest Territories in 1969.
		Ashevak was named as a Companion of the Order of Canada and has received honorary Doctorates of Laws from both Queen's University and the University of Toronto.
	www.willockandsaxgallery.com /ashevak2.htm (355 words)

	Marcel Granger — Kenojuak Ashevak's The Owl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kenojuak Ashevak was born in 1927 on south Baffin Island, Northwest Territories.
		Kenojuak initially made sewing and carvings for Houston's arts andd crafts program (later to become the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative).
		Kenojuak has prouce hunreds of rawings, mostly in graphite, coloured pencils and felt-tip pens.
	pwp.lino.com /marcelg/hibou_an.htm (208 words)

	Kenojuak Ashevak
		Kenojuak began making dolls and beadwork when she was being treated for tuberculosis in Parc Savard Hospital, Quebec City between 1952-1955.
		In 1958 the first and one of Kenojuak's best known prints, "Rabbit Eating Seaweed", was completed at the Cape Dorset printshop from a design on one of her sealskin bags.
		Kenojuak was commissioned to produce a limited edition etching "Myself and I" for inclusion in the book ‘Graphic Masterworks of the Inuit: Kenojuak’; also documented in the annual Cape Dorset print collection and catalogue in 1981.
	www.ccca.ca /cv/english/ashevak-cv.html (2283 words)

	Marcel Granger — Le Hibou de Kenojuak Ashevak
		Kenojuak Ashevak est née en 1927 dans la partie sud de l'île de Baffin, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest.
		Kenojuak réalisa d'abord des travaux à l'aiguille et des sculptures en participant au programme d'art et d'artisanat offert par Houston, (qui fonda plus tard la West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative).
		Kenojuak a signé des centaines de dessins, réalisés pour la plupart au graphite, aux crayons de couleur et au crayon feutre.
	www.lino.com /~marcelg/hibou.htm (287 words)

	National Gallery of Canada - Kenojuak Ashevak: To Make Something Beautiful
		For this woman who first began drawing at age thirty, it is a status gained primarily as a result of her impressive graphic oeuvre created over more than forty years.
		Elegant and lyrical, Kenojuak's drawings and prints produced in the studios of the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (Cape Dorset, Nunavut) are often praised as being remarkable explorations of design and form.
		Presented in conjunction with the exhibition will be the acclaimed film, "Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak" produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1962 (continuous showing in the Inuit foyer) and a special "Meet the Artist" session with Kenojuak herself (date to be confirmed).
	national.gallery.ca /english/default_EB7561B0C10E46B4B8FE01C1E1B29CF1.htm (245 words)

	Nunatsiaq News
		Since she does not know a lot of oral tradition, she prefers not to express many of the myths and legends for fear that they may be misrepresented.
		Ashevak is scheduled to make a guest appearance at the National Gallery on April 28.
		Ashevak is no stranger to the National Gallery of Canada.
	www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/nunavut020405/news/nunavut/20405_3.html (448 words)

	Bible Network News :: North America & Caribbean - Bible story inspires first Inuit stained glass
		Renowned Canadian Inuit artist, Kenojuak Ashevak works in prints, drawings and sculpture, and is considered by many people to be one of this country's greatest living artists.
		To Ashevak, the story also embodies the spirit of the Inuit community, where no one is allowed to go hungry.
		Ashevak's design was translated into glass by Toronto stained glass artist, Sue Obata with the help of Sattler Stained Glass Studio in Nova Scotia.
	www.biblenetworknews.com /northamerica/120604_canada.html (641 words)

	Kenojuak Ashevak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenojuak Ashevak (born October 3, 1927) is a Canadian Inuit artist.
		In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1982.
		Kenojuak Ashevak's Artist Profile at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenojuak_Ashevak (257 words)

	Canku Ota - September 21, 2002 -
		They moved to Cape Dorset in 1966 to be nearer schools for their children and continued to work closely together until Johnniebo's untimely death in 1972.
		Kenojuak Ashevak has received many special honours over the years.
		In 1961she was the subject of a film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and in 1967, she received the Order of Canada.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues02/Co09212002/CO_09212002_Ashevak.htm (579 words)

	Waddington's Auctioneers & Appraisers / Joyner Waddington's Canadian Fine Art - Canada's Auction House Since 1850
		Although Kenojuak’s subject matter originates from her imagination and her life, a typical Kenojuak image does not contain a narrative or personal references.
		When Kenojuak applied these approaches to her drawn images, which in the case of Night Hunter was made into a stonecut, the resulting image reflected the stark positive and negatives, symmetry and mirroring typical of seal skin designs.
		The stonecut print demonstrates Kenojuak’s favouring of complementary colours, mirroring, contrasting darks and lights, and the layering of images to create one dominant subject.
	www.waddingtons.ca /pages/home/index.php?c=services/filmfestival.php (927 words)

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