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Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaqa [1] or Ikirasaq, [2] at the southern coast of Baffin Island. Her father, Ushuakjuk, an Inuit hunter and fur trader, and her mother, Silaqqi, named Kenojuak after Silaqqi's deceased father. [7] .
Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), [5] in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas (behind Greenland), and the fifth-largest island in the world.
The Qikiqtaaluk Region, Qikiqtani Region (Inuktitut syllabics: ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ pronounced [qikiqtaːˈluk]) or the Baffin Region is the easternmost, [1] northernmost, and southernmost administrative region of Nunavut, Canada. Qikiqtaaluk is the traditional Inuktitut name for Baffin Island. [2]
Kenojuak Ashevak,, is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art and one of Canada's preeminent artists and cultural icons. Part of a pioneering generation of Arctic creators, her career spanned more than five decades.
Artist: Kenojuak Ashevak (First Nations, Inuit, Ikirasaqa, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories 1927–2013 Cape Dorset, Nunavut) Date: 2005. Medium: Stonecut. Dimensions: Sheet: 21 × 27 in. (53.3 × 68.6 cm) Framed: 30 × 36 in. (76.2 × 91.4 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of Ditte Wolff, 2015. Accession Number: 2015.751.7
Worked: Canada. Context. Australia Biography. Kenojuak Ashevak is a prominent Inuit artist.
Nunavut (Baffin Island) Overview: The largest and newest territory of Canada, Nunavut means “our land” in Inuktitut, the Inuit language. Nunavut was officially separated from the vast Northwest Territories of Canada on April 1, 1999 as a result of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
