Sharni Pootoogook: Creatures, Shadows, and Dreams

Let's meet up and visit the exhibition Sharni Pootoogook: Creatures, Shadows, and Dreams at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. The exhibition is free to the public, and accessible via skytrain (Lafarge Lake station).

About the exhibition and artist (from the Evergreen website):
The life and work of Sharni Pootoogook (1922–2003), though still largely underexplored, draws clear and fundamental connections between first-generation artists in Kinngait, Nunavut, and the current trends in Inuit graphic art. Her bold designs helped to shape and inform the course of Inuit printmaking during a period of great turmoil that threatened Inuit land, culture and traditional languages.

Sharni Pootoogook was an Inuk artist from Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset), Nunavut. She worked primarily in drawing and printmaking and was involved with the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative. She was part of a large family of artists: her brother Pauta Saila was a well-known carver, her husband was the carver and graphic artist Pudlat Pootoogook, and both her daughter and adopted son are also artists. Her work is in the collections of the British Museum, London; Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, among many others.

Note: This event is scheduled at the tail end of another Profoundly Creative meet up event where we'll be making art on the Skytrain. Choose to attend either or both!