Award-winning Kinngait art exhibition opens in Calgary
Gallery spotlights Inuit mid-century printed textiles
Part of the ᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios exhibition at Glenbow at the Edison gallery in Calgary. (Photo courtesy of Darren Rigo)
Textile art created in Kinngait during the 1950s and 1960s is now on display as part of an exhibition in Calgary.
Titledᖃᓪᓗᓈᖅᑕᐃᑦ ᓯᑯᓯᓛᕐᒥᑦ Printed Textiles from Kinngait Studios, the exhibition is on display at Glenbow at the Edison gallery on 9th Avenue.
The art uses mid-century designs to depict legends, stories and traditional ways of life.
In 2021, the exhibition won the Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Museums while on display at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto.
“Kinngait Studios has long provided the world with direct access to Inuit creativity and culture, while also helping Canadians to understand the importance of celebrating arts indigenous to these lands,” said Glenbow president and CEO Nicolas Bell in a news release.
He called the exhibition “a window into these artists’ earliest collaborations with Canada’s longest-running” studio.
The exhibition opened Nov. 24 and will run until March 3.
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