Mina Napartuk

Mina Napartuk
Born1913
Kuujjuarapik, Quebec, Canada
Died2001 (aged 87–88)
Umiujaq, Quebec, Canada
Known forTextile Art

Mina Napartuk (1913 – 2001) was a Canadian Inuit artist known for her fabric and fur crafts, as well as her management of the women's craft shop in Kuujjuarapik.[1]

Biography

Napartuk was born in 1913 in Kuujjuarapik, Quebec.[2] She trained in the traditional arts of working with fur, skins, and fabric to create dolls, clothing (including kamiks), and wall-hangings known as akinnamiutak.[2][1] Starting in the 1980s Napartuk managed the women's craftshop in Kuujjuarapik which focused on traditional crafts of the area.[1] In the mid-1980s she moved to nearby Umiujaq.[2]

Selected exhibitions that Napartuk's work has appeared in include Group Show of Wallhangings at the Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art; Things Made by Inuit at La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec; and Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada at the National Museum of Man, Ottawa.[3]

She has participated in workshops in Montreal and Toronto.[1]

Napartuk died in 2001 in Umiujaq.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Napartuk, Mina". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G., eds. (2013). North American women artists of the twentieth century : a biographical dictionary. New York: Routledge. p. 400. ISBN 978-1135638825. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Mina Napartuk". katilvik.com. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.