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Prints explained: Two Cape Dorset artists share their craft
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Cape Dorset, Nunavut is known all over the world for their famous prints. Every year, artists from the community put out another collection. Kent Driscoll of APTN News, went behind the process and found out, for every artist and every print, there is a team at work.
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Cape Dorset, Nunavut - The Epicentre of Inuit Art
This documentary shows how an Inuit artist’s drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Short Subject Oscar.
John Feeney, 1963 National Film Board
The Appropriation of Inuit Art
This short film mixes archival and new footage to make a statement about the appropriation of Inuit culture throughout history.
Jobie Weetaluktuk, 2009 National Fim Board
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
This documentary shows how an Inuit artist’s drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Short Subject Oscar.
John Feeney, 1963 National Film Board
The Living Stone
This documentary shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film centres on an old legend about the carving of the image of a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp.
John Feeney, 1958 National Fim Board
James Houston and the Artists of Cape Dorset
James Houston first traveled to the remote community of Cape Dorset in 1949 in pursuit of his own art. There, he quickly recognized an undiscovered mine of artistic talent among the people of the region and introduced them to art techniques such as print-making. He went on to become the driving force behind a multimillion-dollar art industry, bringing radical change to the Arctic and its inhabitants and profoundly changing his own life. In this 1987 profile by CBC Television’s The Fifth Estate, Houston also meets with his old friend Kenojuak, now a renowned print-maker.