A Visit with Carolynn Faulkner of the Inuit Gallery Vancouver
I had the opportunity to go to Vancouver, BC last week and visit one of my favorite places--the Inuit Gallery. I also got to hang with one of my favorite people--the lovely and fabulously knowledgeable Carolynn Faulkner. Enjoy this video of Carolynn talking about the work of artist Joe David. Joe is a contemporary of Preston Singletary glass artist.
Winnipeg Art Gallery - Manitoba, Canada
Experience the art of Manitoba at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. This tour showcases their vast collection of Inuit artwork, as well insight into their educational programs and studio.
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British Columbia Native Art: Ruby Creek Art Gallery
Here's the final version of the promotional video VRIDETV shot for the Ruby Creek Art Gallery featuring artist Pascal Pelletier.
Be sure to visit their website at for an amazing selection of Native Art.
Ottawa Art Gallery: A Visit to the OAG
This video and photos are from a trip I took to the Ottawa Art Gallery
( in the summer of 2018.
If you turn on the captions, you can see the artists' names and the titles of their work You can find out more about many of the the artists and works featured in the video in my blog post:
The photos featured in the video are included in this album:
The Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) is a small, non-profit organization founded in 1988 by a group of local artists and community leaders. It moved to new, greatly-expanded premises in April, 2018.
As Ottawa is Canada's capital, it is full of museums, including the National Gallery of Canada. To set itself apart from such museums, the Ottawa Art Gallery focuses on artwork with a local or regional connection--works by local artists, works inspired by the city and region and works donated by local collectors
The artwork in the Ottawa Art Gallery is arranged thematically, so you often have pieces of wildly contrasting styles next to each other. Scattered throughout the gallery are works by indigenous artists.
The paintings in one section of the video are from the Firestone Collection of Canadian Art. Among the painting on display were works by Group of Seven members such as A. Y. Jackson , Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris. A. J. Casson and their contemporaries such as Yvonne McKague Housser. These highly influential Canadian landscape artists were inspired by Ontario's rugged wilderness and rural tranquility.
Other artists included in the video are Max Deen, Eliza Griffiths, Jack Shadbolt, Arthur Pellan and Barry Ace (among many others).
The OAG is relatively small and is conveniently located in downtown Ottawa (it is on the MacKenzie King Bridge just behind the Rideau Centre). If you are ever visiting the city and are interested in art, you should drop in for a visit (the admission is free)..
Credits
I shot the video footage and took the photos. I mainly used a FUJIFILM X100T.
The lovely first song is Somewhere Deep in the Sea by Jessica Yip, I recorded that and the song is part of my Free Background music series (a collection of songs that you can use for free for non-commercial purposes). Information about the song and download links are on my website: //longzijun.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/free-background-music-38/
The short jazz outro is my own work and can be found on this page:
Welcoming ceremony in the new Canadian and Indigenous Galleries
On the advice of local Anishinabe Elders, a number of historic works of art were welcomed to Anishinabe territory. Every ceremony was unique. The ceremonies included both local community Anishinabe traditions as well as the traditions from the nation that the work of art is from.
Gastown Sessions with Familiar Wild
Vancouver-based band Familiar Wild performs I Won't Say at Inuit Gallery.
Canadian Native Inuit Art As Corporate Business Gifts
presents suggestions of Canadian Native Inuit art as corporate business gifts for important clients or attendees of meetings and conferences. Free native art ebooks at website.
Norval Morrisseau An Aboriginal Canadian Artist The 'Picasso of the North'
Norval Morrisseau An Aboriginal Canadian Artist The Picasso of the North
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Norval Morrisseau, CM (March 14, 1932 -- December 4, 2007), also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Aboriginal Canadian artist. Known as the Picasso of the North, Morrisseau created works depicting the legends of his people, the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions, his existential struggles, and his deep spirituality and mysticism. His style is characterized by thick black outlines and bright colors. He founded the Woodlands School of Canadian art and was a prominent member of the Indian Group of Seven.
His full name is Jean-Baptiste Norman Henry Morrisseau, but he signs his work using the Cree syllabics writing ᐅᓵᐚᐱᐦᑯᐱᓀᐦᓯ (Ozaawaabiko-binesi, unpointed: ᐅᓴᐘᐱᑯᐱᓀᓯ, Copper/Brass [Thunder]Bird), as his pen-name for his Anishnaabe name ᒥᐢᒁᐱᐦᐠ ᐊᓂᒥᐦᑮ (Miskwaabik Animikii, unpointed: ᒥᐢᑿᐱᐠ ᐊᓂᒥᑭ, Copper Thunderbird).
Morrisseau was a self-taught artist. He developed his own techniques and artistic vocabulary which captured ancient legends and images that came to him in visions or dreams. He was originally criticized by the native community because his images disclosed traditional spiritual knowledge. Initially he painted on any material that he could find, especially birchbark, and also moose hide. Dewdney encouraged him to use earth-tone colors and traditional material, which he thought were appropriate to Morrisseau's native style.
In 1978, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. The National Arts Centre, urban ink co-production, Copper Thunderbird, premiered on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) on Monday, Feb 4th 2008. Norval Morrisseau was honoured with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award during the NAAF Awards held at the Sony Centre in Toronto on March 22, 2008.
First Nations Art Installations
On Monday, September 19, 2016, the City of Vancouver, in partnership with the three host First Nations, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, unveiled three permanent art installations in Vancouver's City Hall Council Chambers.
This video is a profile of the three artists who helped design and produce the art pieces that depict the unique images and representations of their Nations.
Construction tour of Winnipeg Art Gallery's Inuit Art Centre
Join us for a special construction tour of Winnipeg Art Gallery's new Inuit Art Centre with architect Michael Maltzan.
The stunning 40,000-square foot building will house the largest collection of Inuit art in the world and is slated to open in 2020.
Norval Morrisseau
MUSIC: Northen Cree - Earth angel
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McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg Ontario Canada
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McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg Ontario Canada
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an art gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto. It houses an extensive collection of paintings by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, and First Nations and Inuit artists.
The core of this art collection and the very gallery itself are the result of the dreams and vision of two people. Signe and Robert McMichael were, on first sight, completely captivated by the paintings of the Group of Seven which seemed to embody the same love and respect they had for the Canadian landscape.
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Manitoba Museum: The Hudson Bay Gallery Collection
The Hudson Bay Company collection spans three centuries of the Company’s history and contains more than 10,000 artifacts. The Collection is one of the world’s most significant early European Settler and Indigenous, and Aboriginal historic resources.
One-half of the Collection originated in Indigenous, Aboriginal, First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities, and illustrates traditional art and culture, objects, artifacts, lifestyles, and unique adaptations to the world of the commercial fur trade in Canada. These artifacts were acquired by the Hudson’s Bay Company through purchase, trade, ceremonial gift exchange and donations from fur traders and their families.
Together with the Nonsuch replica, the Hudson’s Bay Company Museum Collection establishes the Museum as an international centre for northwestern North American fur trade research, and a major cultural tourism destination.
For more information on the Manitoba Museum, the History of the Hudson Bay Company and the HBC Collection visit the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg Manitoba, Winnipeg's arts culture and history museum:
Looking for things to do in Winnipeg? Visit the Manitoba Museum in Downtown Winnipeg and discover Manitoba!
Inuit Sculptures & Art to sell at Copake Auction
Inuit art collection to sell August 25, 2012 Catalogued Estate Sale. Copake Auction Inc. - 266 Route 7A, Copake, NY 12516. WWW.COPAKEAUCTION.COM
Inuit Sculptors And Their Unique Styles
In Inuit culture, the drum, which gives a very eerie sound, is mostly used for dancing (both indoors and outdoors).
As far as their carvings are concerned, everything that they carve is from some aspect of their culture.
The first piece that is discussed is the traditional drum dancer.
The second sculpture piece is the whale and walrus.
As you learn more about the various sculptors, you'll find that each artist has his/her own individual and signature effects which make it easy to recognize who carved a particular piece.
Many sculptured pieces revolve around mythic creatures who take on the dual aspects of both man and animal.
Art Makes Us | Celebrating Artistic Achievement and Embracing Indigenous Art
Watch contemporary visual artist and author Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas discuss his hopes for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s new building.
CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS ART AT THE GALLERY
The Vancouver Art Gallery is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. We are exceedingly grateful for the opportunity to live and learn on this land.
Treasured works in the Gallery’s collection are by artists from this region, including powerful works by Indigenous artists. The strengthening of the Gallery’s collection of historical and contemporary Indigenous art has been an ongoing priority, recently benefiting from an exceptional donation of 36 objects from the Estate of George Gund III that features historical works by Haida, Heiltsuk, Kwakwaka’wakw artists, and more recent work by the renowned artists Robert Davidson and Bill Reid. Recent major acquisitions include works by BC artist Brian Jungen, Kwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick, and Musqueam artist Susan Point.
Beginning in 1941, exhibitions from the Gallery's history have contributed significantly to the development of Indigenous art history and discourse and have extended the artists’ reach geographically and into the future.
Exhibitions undertaken by the Gallery to reveal and celebrate Indigenous art began with “BC Coast Indian Art,” followed by “People of the Potlatch: Native Arts and Culture of the Pacific Northwest Coast” in 1956. Subsequent presentations have included “Arts of the Raven,” 1967, which showcased Indigenous objects as art rather than ethnographic material; “Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art,” 2006; and “Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture,” 2012—among many group shows that made distinctive space and claims for Indigenous artists. “Charles Edenshaw,” 2013, was the first major survey on this iconic Haida artist (ca. 1839-1920), and solo exhibitions have featured the brilliant contemporary work of Sonny Assu, Rebecca Belmore, Robert Davidson, Brian Jungen, Marianne Nicolson, Susan Point and others.
In 2017, the Gallery inaugurated the three-year rotating position of Senior Curatorial Fellow for Indigenous Art to research and develop exhibitions about Canadian Indigenous practices within an international context.
Now in its ninth decade as a significant contributor to the vibrant creative life of British Columbia and Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery has embarked on a transformative campaign to build an innovative and inspiring new art museum that will greatly enhance the many ways in which citizens and visitors to the city can experience the amazing power of art. Find out more at
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Fathom Stone Art
Opening of Nunavut Jewelry 2012 Exhibition
Mathew Nuqingaq, of Iqaluit, performing an Inuit Drum Dance at the opening of Nunavut Jewelry at the Inuit Gallery of Vancouver.
The Enchanted Owl - National Gallery of Canada
Kenojuak Ashevak's drawings, prints and sculpture express her understanding of the world through unique imagery. Her early work is filled with images of camp life, people, animals, and for what Kenojuak is renowned: fantastical birds that reveal her ability to capture the essence of her subjects in simple forms. Reproduced on a postage stamp in 1970 to commemorate the centennial of the Northwest Territories, Kenojuak's The Enchanted Owl has become an icon of Canadian art. In contrast to the delicate web of forms she created on other occasions, this image shows the artist taking quite a different approach to pleasing her eye. Here, the focus is given to a single, boldly designed emblematic figure.
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Waddington's Inuit Art Auction, 2 May 2011, Lot 207
Waddington's Inuit Art Auction
2 May 2011
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LOT 207
LATCHOLASSIE AKESUK (1919-2000), E7-1055, Cape Dorset
OWL
stone
ca. 1965
15.00 (height) x 12.00 (width) x 5.50 (depth),
38.10 cm (height) x 30.50 cm (width) x 14.00 cm (depth),
Provenance: Robert Hume Collection,
By descent to present owner,
Private Collection, London, Ontario
Robert studied at the Vancouver School of Art, and was curator at Vancouver Art Gallery (1956-1959), with positions at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), The Ontario Science Centre, (Toronto),
Art Gallery of Ontario, (Toronto), and Parks Canada, (Ottawa)
Solo Exhibition: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1953
Est. $5,000 / 7,000
Price Realised: $14,400