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 Pitseolak Ashoona Artwork in Canada House Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak Ashoona was the mother of several Cape Dorset artists, the Ashoonas: Ottochie, Koomwartok, Kaka, and Kiawak and Napatchie Pootoogook.
Pitseolak Ashoona was born in 1904 on Nottingham Island in the Hudson Straights, while her family was enroute from Sugluk (now Salluit) on the North coast of Arctic Quebec to the south of Baffin Island.
Pitseolak Ashoona died in 1983 and is Bbried behind the Anglican Church in Cape Dorset.
www.canadahouse.com /dynamic/artists/Pitseolak_Ashoona.asp   (1637 words)

  
 Pitseolak Ashoona
Born on Nottingham Island[?] in the Northwest Territories, Pitseolak Ashoona (1904 or 1907 - 1983) is an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious anthenticity in her works.
Growing up the traditional life with hunting, gathering and shamans, she was the last of dozens of generations of Inuit, growing up in the traditional lifestyles enjoyed by the North American Inuit since before 1000 BC.
On May 28, 1983, Pitseolak Ashoona died in Cape Dorset, she was survived by an large family of artists, including:
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 Inuit Art, Pitseolak Ashoona - Marion Scott Gallery
Pitseolak Ashoona was born in 1904 on Nottingham Island in the Hudson Strait.
Pitseolak’s work can be divided into two distinct, albeit not infrequently overlapping classes of imagery.
Although her first drawings were created with graphite pencils, Pitseolak quickly switched to coloured pencil crayons and felt markers when these became available later in the same decade.
www.marionscottgallery.com /artists_work_biographies/inuit_artist-PitseolakAshoona-bio.asp   (526 words)

  
 Pitseolak Ashoona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Artist (born around 1904 at Nottingham Island, N.W.T.; died on May 28, 1983, at Cape Dorset, N.W.T. Pitseolak is one of the best-known Inuit graphic artists and her prints are sold around the world.
Her husband Ashoona was an excellent hunter of seal and caribou, and they moved several times each year.
She began making pictures for money after James HOUSTON encouraged her to draw "the things we did long ago." She made thousands of pictures in coloured pencil and felt pen, many of which were made into prints.
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 ABoriginArt Galleries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak grew up in various camps on the south Baffin coast and was married as a young woman to Ashoona.
Pitseolak had vivid memories of her life with Ashoona, a strong hunter, and of wandering between distant hunting camps.
Ashoona himself died during an epidemic in the Nettling Lake area when still in his prime leaving Pitseolak to raise their large and young family.
www.inuitarteskimoart.com /cgi-bin/inventory/postitem.cgi?item=P3066   (514 words)

  
 Pitseolak Ashoona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak was born on Nottingham Island (Nottingham Island: nottingham island (tujjaat in inuktitut) is an island of nunavut, canada lying...
Marrying Ashoona, a hunter, in the Foxe Peninsula of Baffin Island (Baffin Island: The 5th largest island and the largest island of Arctic Canada; lies between Greenland and Hudson Bay), they raised 12 children (or 17?), 10 of which survived past infancy.
The Government Administrator and her cousin both inspired her to try her hand at drawing, then copper (copper: A ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor) plates, a technique she did not enjoy.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/pitseolak_ashoona   (281 words)

  
 Pitseolak Ashoona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak Ashoona, graphic artist (b on Nottingham I, NWT c 1904; d at Cape Dorset, NWT 28 May 1983).
She was married in 1922 to Ashoona, a capable hunter who died young, and their sons Kumwartok QAQAQ and KIAWAK Ashoona and daughter Napachie Pootoogook also became artists.
Highly articulate, she told her story in the illustrated oral biography Pitseolak: Pictures out of My Life (from recorded interviews by D. Eber, 1971), which became an NFB animated documentary.
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 Nunatsiaq News
Ashoona, who passed away in 1983, and four of her family members are being celebrated in a Toronto art exhibition this month, called Women of the Ashoona Family: Inuit Print Retrospective.
Not only was she prolific, Pitseolak shared her love of art with those around her.
Pitseolak also preferred to draw alone in her bedroom, something she had in common with her granddaughter, Suvinai.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/030411/news/features/30411_02.html   (695 words)

  
 Summer Travellers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This work by Pitseolak Ashoona is an illustration of the camp as the nucleus of family life in the traditional, nomadic lifestyle of the Inuit.
Since both her father and husband were remarkable hunters, Pitseolak spent most of her life moving from camp to camp, as they followed the migratory patterns of animals.
Because the art of Pitseolak is in many ways autobiographical, one can approach this work as a reflection of a happy memory from the time she was a young bride and mother.
collections.ic.gc.ca /world/vr1/pop-ups/19881148.htm   (540 words)

  
 Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
Along with the late Lucy Qinnuayuak and the late Pitseolak Ashoona, Kenojuak is recognized as being one of the foremost artists creating in the Cape Dorset tradition.
Napachie is from a remarkable family whose talent follows a line of creativity that extends from her mother, Pitseolak Ashoona, to Napachie and four of her brothers.
Pitseolak, who died in 1983, was one of the most prolific of the Inuit women artists.
www.pequotmuseum.org /Home/CrossPaths/CrossPathsSpring2004/ProfilesofNineCapeDorsetWomen.htm   (1982 words)

  
 Flying south before winter
Her father Kiawak Ashoona is a renowned carver and Order of Canada recipient whose work is celebrated across the continent.
Pitseolak was a printmaker, for which she was also recognized with the Order of Canada.
This week Ashoona is carving the faces of a man and woman on either side of a broken whale vertebra while shaping a woman and child from a chunk of Cape Dorset soapstone.
www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2005-07/jul29_05art.html   (555 words)

  
 Nunatsiaq News
The memories and talents of Pitseolak Ashoona, the noted Cape Dorset artist who died in 1983, are honoured and preserved in Pitseolak: Pictures out of my life.
Pitseolak's artwork ranges from detailed, practical images that show exactly what people wore and what they did, to more symbolic drawings and creatures or situations derived legends or her imagination.
Namoonie's favourite drawing, which is reproduced in the book, shows Pitseolak's attention to detail, her humour and her artistry.
www.nunatsiaq.com /archives/40319/news/nunavut/40312_06.html   (735 words)

  
 Major Inuit Artists
Pitseolak Ashoona was born in either 1904 or 1907 on Nottingham Island, in Hudson Strait, in the eastern Arctic.
Pitseolak lived a semi-nomadic life until the 1950s, when she moved into village of Cape Dorset.
Pitseolak’s life and career spanned a wide and quickly changing period in Canadian history.
www.canadianstudies.ca /NewJapan/inuitartists.html   (1230 words)

  
 Untitled
Ashoona is from the region of Canada that is now the territory of Nunavut.
Ashoona produced some 7,000 prints and drawings over the course of her career.
Ashoona's visual records of the old ways of living allow future generations to learn about and appreciate the changes in the north, particularly in the past century.
www.carleton.ca /gallery/schoolwork/ashoonapage.html   (650 words)

  
 Famous Canadian Women on Stamps - Pitseolak
The stamp is a head and shoulders portrait of Pitseolak.
As well as leaving her own personal works, three of her sons became gifted stone carvers and a daughter, Napadive Poottoogook a graphic artist.
Pitseolak was a member of the Royal Academy of the Arts and in 1977 she received the Order of Canada.
famouscanadianwomen.com /stamps/pitseolak.htm   (233 words)

  
 Culture's last gasp
Ashoona was one of those kids who wanted to hear the stories, so she would sneak in to hear them.
Now Ashoona, who comes from a long line of storytellers and is quite a good storyteller herself, says the art of storytelling is dying.
Peter Pitseolak, the outstanding community leader for whom the Cape Dorset high school is named after, was Ashoona's grandfather.
www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2004-07/jul19_04st.html   (769 words)

  
 Pitseolak Ashoona - TheBestLinks.com - Artist, Canada, Inuit, May 28, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak Ashoona - TheBestLinks.com - Artist, Canada, Inuit, May 28,...
Pitseolak Ashoona, Artist, Canada, Inuit, May 28, North America, Northwest...
Born on Nottingham Island in the Northwest Territories, Pitseolak Ashoona (1904 or 1907 - 1983) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works.
www.thebestlinks.com /Pitseolak_Ashoona.html   (285 words)

  
 Eskimo Art Gallery
Only when you behold the tenderness between a mother polar bear and her cub as created by Ashoona's hands and mind, or watch cold serpentine stone evoke the warmth and caring this artist has watched and then brought forth from his Arctic home and culture, can his skill truly be felt."
It is for this reason, and for the quality of the work he does, that Ohito Ashoona was chosen as the winner for the 2002 National Aboriginal Achievement Awards in the Visual Arts category.
By his early teens, his destiny was set: he would be an artist like his father (Kaka Ashoona), his grandmother (Pitseolak Ashoona) and others that had gone before him.
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 A Game with a Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Many of Pitseolak Ashoona's works deal with the good times and happiness of family life.
This print of a game with a ball is a result of Pitseolak's fond memories of playing with her own family.
Quote of Pitseolak from her autobiography (in Eber 1971) found in "The Power of the Pencil: Inuit Women in the Graphic Arts" by Janet Catherine Berlo, Inuit Art Quarterly,vol.
www.uleth.ca /sfa-gal/TWAM/vr2/tombstones/tomb11.htm   (190 words)

  
 Rowing Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As she spent most of her life travelling from one camp to another, migration scenes are one of Pitseolak's favourite topics.
This is common in Pitseolak's work as she frequently incorporates two different points of view, simultaneously, in order to convey more information.
Perhaps this compositional strategy refers to Pitseolak's use of landscape not as the subject matter, but as a framing devise that allows her to set her figures in a three-dimensional space.
www.uleth.ca /sfa-gal/TWAM/vr1/pop-ups/pop-ups/19881153.htm   (428 words)

  
 DorsetArtists
Napachie was the only daughter of the late Pitseolak Ashoona.
A selection of these contemporary drawings, along with a retrospective of her earlier work was exhibited and catalogued by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in their 1999 exhibition Three Women, Three Generations.
This exhibition also featured the work of her mother, Pitseolak Ashoona, and her niece, Suvinai Ashoona.
www.dorsetfinearts.com /artist_napachie.html   (311 words)

  
 Peabody Museum/Ethnographic Collections: Inuit Prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak Ashoona (aka Pitseolak, Sea Pigeon) (1904-1983), Inuit, Cape Dorset
Pitseolak Ashoona's work first appeared in the Cape Dorset graphic catalogue in 1960.
Four of her children became artists (Koomwartok, Kaka, Kiawak Ashoona, and Napatchie Pootoogook).
www.peabody.harvard.edu /ethno/39054.html   (59 words)

  
 National Gallery of Canada - National Gallery of Canada
Kiawak Ashoona was born at Tariugajak camp on Baffin Island.
Kiawak comes from a family of prominent Cape Dorset artists; his mother, Pitseolak Ashoona, and his sister, Napatchie Pootoogook, are noted graphic artists, while his brothers, Koomwartok and Qaqaq Ashoona, are both successful sculptors.
Although Kiawak is a devout Christian, traditional Inuit mythology and legends have influenced his art since the 1960s, when depictions of spiritual creatures became popular in the South.
national.gallery.ca /english/default_1269.htm   (283 words)

  
 Pitseolak Ashoona Inuit Artist presented by Houston North Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak Ashoona is one of Canada's best known artists.
Raised on Baffin Island, she was considered to be one of the best Inuit artists from Cape Dorset, producing more than 7,000 original works of art in her twenty-four-year artistic career.
Pitseolak received numerous awards, including the Canada Council Senior Arts Grant and the Order of Canada.
www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca /Pitseolak.html   (172 words)

  
 Native American Authors: Pitseolak Ashoona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pitseolak Ashoona was born in Nottingham Island in the Hudson Straits.
She has a reputation as one of the best of the Cape Dorset artists.
Pitseolak was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and a recipient of the Order of Canada.
www.ipl.org /div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A254   (80 words)

  
 Inuit Artists, art work, biographies, contact information in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
Napatchie Pootoogookwas born at Saarru, a traditional Inuit camp on the southwest coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, and daughter of one of Inuit art's most important figures, Pitseolak Ashoona.
Along with her sculptor brothers, Kiawak and Kaka Ashoona, and her graphic artist sisters-in-law Mayureak and Sorosiluto Ashoona, Napatchie belonged to a family with a strong artistic identity that has contributed significantly to the reputation of Cape Dorset art and the printmaking studio of the Kinngait Co-operative (formerly West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative).
In the mid-1950s, while living at Kiaktuuq, she married Eegyvukluk Pootoogook (b.1931), son of the important camp leader, Pootoogook, who had once become one of the main printers in the Cape Dorset studio.
www.capedorset.ca /en/tourism_artist.asp?ArtistsID=12   (330 words)

  
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Within the exciting cultural and political context of the new Inuit territory of Nunavut, the drawings of three generations of Inuit women artists are chronicled.
The art of Shuvinai Ashoona, her aunt Napatchie Pootoogook and her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona is featured and contrasted.
Interviews with the artists combine with Blodgett's perceptive text to illuminate with depth and sensitivity the lives and artistic vision of these artists.
www.feheleyfinearts.com /gallery/books_vid/book_3_women.shtml   (102 words)

  
 ICT [2004/04/29]  Inuit women's art exhibit at the Pequot Museum
Works in the exhibit are by the late Pitseolak Ashoona and the late Lucy Qinnuayuak who, with Kenojuak Ashevak, established the reputation of art from Cape Dorset.
Works in the same tradition by Mayoreak Ashoona, Qaunak Mikkigak, Oopik Pitsiulak, Napachie Pootoogook, Pitaloosie and Ovilu Tunnillie complete the exhibition.
The images of the youngest artist out of the group, Mayoreak Ashoona, are already in lithography; they are often drawn directly onto the litho stone by the artist.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1083255276   (762 words)

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