Nunavut arts strategy on the way

Artists and arts groups met in Iqaluit last Thursday to talk about issues that are holding back Nunavut’s arts industry, from finding affordable materials to marketing the final product.

Jennifer Archer, who represented the Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association at the meeting, says the meeting is the first in a series of “talks and consultations.”

Arts stakeholders are working with the Department of Economic Development and Transportation to produce a strategy document that can be presented to the GN next February, in time for the new fiscal year.

The goal is to form a unified policy that can be used to leverage more funding for the arts in Nunavut.