Arctic Art: In studio with Jimmy Kamimmalik

The art and artists from Canada’s Arctic are famous around the world.

Starting in the 1950s, the print programs set up in Inuit communities like Cape Dorset, Baker Lake, Ulukhaktok (Holman) and Pangnirtung cultivated some of the most well-known Canadian artists and printmakers of the 20th century including people like Kenojuak Ashevak, Helen Kalvak and Jessie Oonark.

The Cape Dorset print program is still going strong, but over time, many of the other Arctic print programs have folded or scaled back.

Despite this, important work is still being done in many of these communities.

In this installment of Eye on the Arctic’s ongoing online series looking at the art and artists of Canada’s North, we take you into studio with Jimmy Kamimmalik, an artist and printmaker working in Baker Lake, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut.

During our 2016 visit, Kamimmalik talked about the community’s artists, images and how the changing Nunavut landscape inspired one of his recent works.