GN offers a chance to learn more about Inuit art, in Winnipeg

The WAG’s collection of contemporary Inuit art is the largest of its kind in the world with more than 13,000 carvings, drawings, prints, textiles, and new media as well as 8,000 Inuit artifacts loaned last February to the WAG for study and cataloguing by the GN. (FILE PHOTO)

The Government of Nunavut is offering a workshop to a select group of Nunavummiut interested in learning more about Inuit art.

The GN’s department of Culture and Heritage is hosting the workshop at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, in part to encourage interest in the gallery’s more than 20,000 pieces of Inuit art, most of it from Nunavut.

Set for the first week of December, the event features a visit to see Nunavut’s Fine Art Collection.

The collection is on loan to the WAG while the GN looks to build its own exhibition facility at home, in the territory.

Participants will also take part in photography, print-making, sewing and painting workshops.

The opportunity is open to eight Nunavummiut over the age of 18. Hopeful participants must send a one-page letter to the department of Culture and Heritage to explain why they’re interested.

For more information, contact Leo Tulugarjuk at (867) 934-2034 or by email at ltulugarjuk@gov.nu.ca.

The deadline to apply is Oct. 27.