A travelling exhibition presenting the works of renowned Canadian Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, among other artists, will make its next stop at TorontoSA国际影视传媒檚 Urbanspace Gallery, where it will run from Jan. 19 to March 25, 2023.

Ashevak was one of the first Inuit artists to create prints of her artwork in Kinngait after James Houston launched a program teaching Inuit drawing techniques and how to make prints in the 1950s.

Throughout her lifetime, Ashevak has worked with graphite, coloured pencils and felt-tip pens. She has also created a variety of carvings from soapstone and thousands of drawings, etchings and stone-cut prints.

She has made designs for Canadian stamps and coins, and her work was displayed on a special edition of the Canadian $10 bill for the countrySA国际影视传媒檚 150th anniversary in 2017.

In 2004, she expanded the boundaries of her traditional techniques by creating the first Inuit-designed stained-glass window for the John Bell Chapel in Oakville, Ont.

Her work is now part of many renowned art museums across the world: The University of Toronto, St. Lawrence University, the National Gallery of Canada, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the SmithsonianSA国际影视传媒檚 National Museum of the American Indian.

In the 1980s, she explained her creation process with Jean Blodgett, author of several books and essays on the artist: SA国际影视传媒淚 just take these things out of my thoughts and out of my imagination, and I donSA国际影视传媒檛 really give any weight to the idea of its being an image of somethingSA国际影视传媒� I am just concentrating on placing it down on paper in a way that is pleasing to my own eye, whether it has anything to do with subjective reality or not.SA国际影视传媒�

A word from the artistSA国际影视传媒檚 daughter, Pee Ashevak

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Ashevak is now following her motherSA国际影视传媒檚 footsteps. Her art creations are being sold at Dorset Fine Arts in Toronto.

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However, she added that she had stopped doing artwork since her daughter passed away.