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2020 Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection
Reserve Now – Release Date October 17th

Always with great anticipation and enthusiasm, we look forward to the NEW yearly collection of prints from Cape Dorset. The 2020 Collection is now ready for viewing online Click Here and we are happy to take your requests NOW for prints of your choice.  
During the third week of September, we will have the Collection available for viewing in each of our three galleries: Stratford, Toronto and Vancouver.  
The Cape Dorset 2020 Print Collection consists of 30 images by 16 artists, each in an edition of 50. This year, there is one additional image by SHUVINAI ASHOONA, a large, dyptych lithograph titled “Baleen”. 
The Opening/Release date is on Saturday, October 17. 
A full colour exhibition catalogue is available in early September. Enjoy viewing the collection.

Sincerely Erla

About 1,200 miles north of Toronto, the hamlet of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, is home to a multi generational community of Inuit graphic artists. Their cooperatively owned printmaking studios have been in continuous operation since 1959, producing unique, captivating, and powerful images. Twelve of these remarkable prints adorn this calendar’s pages.

The animals and legends of the Arctic north come to life in the drawings and prints of Inuit artist Ningiukulu Teevee. Her work, inspired by tales she heard as a child, first appeared in Cape Dorset’s annual print collection in 2004. Since then she has developed into a prolific, versatile artist, exploring the traditions of the past with a contemporary touch. Twelve of Teevee’s inventive images are presented in this calendar. More of her work can be found in Ningiukulu Teevee: Drawings and Prints from Cape Dorset (Pomegranate, 2019).

Cape Dorset, a small hamlet of about 1400 people in the high Arctic is one of Canada’s most successful and prolific art communities. Every Year for the past 60 years the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative has released to the public its collection of fine art limited edition prints.

In the Canadian Arctic community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Inuit artists have been making limited-edition prints for half a century. Twelve examples of their work adorn this calendar.