THE HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING in Baker Lakeis also the history of a people going towards self-sufficiency and nationhood: “a culture employing art unconsciously for identity while moving inevitably into the unknown ” (Bloore, 1973: Foreword). In the fall of 1995, I was sent to Baker Lake to set up a dr...
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| Summary: | THE HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING in Baker Lakeis also the history of a people going towards self-sufficiency and nationhood: “a culture employing art unconsciously for identity while moving inevitably into the unknown ” (Bloore, 1973: Foreword). In the fall of 1995, I was sent to Baker Lake to set up a drawing and printmaking program for Nunavut Arctic Col-lege. This was a challenging and exciting prospect for me. It was the first time since the late 1980s that printmaking was going to be done there. Twenty years of printmaking in Baker Lake had ended when the Sanavik Co-operative decided to expand the retail side of the organization. Artists such as Jessie Oonark, Irene |
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