1. Pitseolak Ashoona was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
16 Facts About Pitseolak Ashoona
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Pitseolak Ashoona grew up in the traditional life of her people, with food dependent on hunting and gathering.
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In 1922, Pitseolak married Ashoona, a hunter, in the Foxe Peninsula of Baffin Island.
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Years of hardship followed the death of Pitseolak Ashoona, which occurred sometime in the early to mid 1940s.
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Pitseolak Ashoona died in the early years of the Second World War, a time of decline in the market for furs.
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Over time the loss of Ashoona led Pitseolak to become an artist.
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Pitseolak Ashoona is recognized as one of the first Inuit artists to create autobiographical works.
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Pitseolak Ashoona's art contained images of traditional Inuit life and contributed to the establishment of a modern Inuit art form, one that transmitted traditional knowledge and values while at the same time achieving worldwide popular and commercial success.
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Pitseolak Ashoona died on May 28,1983, in Cape Dorset now Kinngait.
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Pitseolak Ashoona was survived by a large family of artists, including:.
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Pitseolak Ashoona was one of the first artists in the 1960s to make drawings for the print studio in Cape Dorset.
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Pitseolak Ashoona was a self-taught artist, who worked out solutions to artistic problems through what Lalonde described as "a self directed-program of repetitious drawing".
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Pitseolak Ashoona worked on copper plates, but did not enjoy this technique.
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Pitseolak Ashoona's artwork focuses on both daily life and legends, or Taleelayu.
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Pitseolak Ashoona's work has been featured in exhibitions at Canadian museums, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian museum of civilizations, and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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In 2020, Pitseolak Ashoona was one of eight finalists for the person to be depicted on $5 polymer bills in Canada.