Woman and Dogs

Pitseolak Ashoona was a self-taught Inuk Canadian artist who worked in drawings and prints. The death of her husband Ashoona in the early 1940s inspired her turn towards art-making, as art made her “the happiest since he had died.” Her joyful, autobiographical works depicting Inuit lifeways helped her grieve her husband and overcome her pain. To that end, she took part in the Cape Dorset graphic arts workshop, a program founded in 1957 to adapt traditional art forms and subjects with contemporary techniques. This engraving demonstrates the traditional indigenous worldview, in which community well-being includes both humans and non-humans.

Tori Erisman '22

For More Information about Ashoona and the Dorset Studio:

https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/pitseolak-ashoona/biography/

http://www.dorsetfinearts.com/featured-print-artist

https://www.westbaffin.com/new-page-1

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