The Baker Lake Printmaking Revival

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Fisher, Kyra Vladykov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1997
• Subjects: Inuit; Art; Curricula; Arctic College; Cooperatives; Marketing; Canada. Dept. of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; Economic development; Artists; Baker Lake (Hamlet); Nunavut; Holman; N.W.T; Cape Dorset (Settlement); Puvirnituq; Québec; Pangnirtung; Arctic; Canada; Cape Dorset; Indian; The Baker; Baker Lake; inuit
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64156

The history of printmaking in Baker Lake is 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). . [The author describes the conditions under which...