Uvanga atira Iviviq. My name is Brye Robertson, my business name is Urban Inuk Creations. I am Inuvialuk and i was born and raised in the NWT. I currently reside on Treaty Six Territory as I am a grad student in Indigenous Studies at the University of Alberta. My mom taught me to bead and sew about 7 years ago and I haven't stopped since. I come from a long line of strong Inuit women who were also master seamstresses and creating helps me feel a closer connection to them. Beading and sewing also helps me to feel grounded and continues to guide me on my healing.

My name is Chelsea Adjun of Kugluktuk, Nunavut. I am a self-taught beading artist. I have been beading sporadically for about 5 years now and it is my favourite pastime, it is my favourite outlet for creativity. Right now, my main beading pieces have been necklaces and I would like to get into making earrings and flower uppers for moccasins. You can find me on Instagram @aakuluk.beadwork to check out my beadwork or to get in touch for custom necklaces.

Ohotaq was born in 1936 and lived in Cape Dorset with his wife Qaunak, who is a carver and traditional throat-singer. Ohotaq began drawing in the early years of the print program in Cape Dorset, and his print, Eskimo Fox Trapper, was released in 1961. He became less involved with drawing as the community grew, working full time instead for various community agencies. After his retirement from his job as caretaker of the Peter Pitseolak School in Cape Dorset, Ohotaq resumed his interest in drawing. In the later years, Ohotaq was a daily fixture at the table in the Kinngait Studios, working on drawings covering a wide range of themes and subjects, including an illustrated life history.

Born in Kimmirut (Lake Harbour) in 1967 to Napachie (deceased) and Timila Pitsiulak, Tim has been living in Cape Dorset for several years now and has enjoyed working in the lithography studio with visiting arts advisor, Bill Ritchie. The land and its wildlife were initially the primary influences on Tim’s realist drawing style. More recently he has become a chronicler of the everyday, drawing large format, meticulously detailed depictions of boats, heavy equipment and airplanes – the machinery of modern life in Cape Dorset.

Born May 27, 1963, Ningiukulu is one of the most versatile and intelligent graphic artists to emerge from the Kinngait Studios. In 2009, Ningiukulu’s first children’s book was published by Groundwood Books (A Division of House of Anansi Press). Entitled Alego, it is an autobiographical story of a young girl named Alego who goes clam digging with her grandmother for the first time. The book was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for children’s illustration.

Lucy Qinnuayuak (1915-1982) was a prolific graphic artist, well-known for illustrations of her favourite theme – the bird image, either singularly or in groups and in all sorts of situations or relationships. She also depicts other themes which spring from her personal interpretation of the Canadian Inuit traditional way of life. She was born in Salluit in northern Quebec and at a very young age along with her mother and sister, moved to Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, where they lived in Cape Dorset and in several outpost camps. She met her husband, Tikituk, a sculptor and graphic artist at Supujuak camp where they enjoyed a traditional way of life. In the early 1960’s they moved to Cape Dorset.

Cee Pootoogook was born on August 1, 1967. Around 1990, Cee began carving and he developed a solid reputation for his curious and well executed depictions of spirits and transformations. In 2009 Cee gave up sculpture and began work as a stonecut printer. In a very short time Cee demonstrated an aptitude for the precise and methodical qualities required for the time consuming work of editioning prints. He has also been drawing for the past several years, depicting the day to day activities of community life as well as traditional subjects and wildlife.

Cee is the eldest son of the late Napachie Pootoogook and Eegyvadluk Pootoogook, and older brother to the well known Cape Dorset contemporary artist, Annie Pootoogook.

Pee Ashevak was adopted at an early age by Kenojuak and Johnnybou Ashevak. Although she lived with the family of Cape Dorset’s most renowned graphic artist it was Pee’s young son Arnaqu who inspired her to begin drawing seriously in 2016. Pee has done numerous drawings since then. Her depictions of wildlife and traditional camp scenes have a thoughtful and endearing quality.

Kananginak Pootoogook, sculptor, designer, draftsman, printmaker (born in Ikerrasak camp, south Baffin Island, NWT, 1935). Son of the great camp leader, Pootoogook, he came to Cape Dorset in 1958, when James Houston brought printmaking to the North. He became one of the four original printers. Kananginak worked in all media, including silk-screen printing of textiles. However, he excelled as an engraver and lithographer, particularly of wildlife art, which he had mastered completely while retaining a personal style with definite abstract qualities.

Kananginak lived in Cape Dorset with his wife, Shooyoo and their family until his death in 2010.