Kajola Morewood is the Aboriginal Programs Manager at Emily Carr University. Her role focuses on creating a supportive and welcoming environment for Indigenous students at the Aboriginal Gathering Place.
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The Agguaq Collective is a group of Inuit women from across Nunavut and Nunavik who visit museum collections to study Inuit clothing and piqutiit (belongings). By studying ancestral clothing patterns, the Collective compares and recreates these patterns to what Inuit seamstresses and artists make today.
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For the past year, Inuit Futures alum Napatsi Folger has been working for the Inuit Art Foundation (IAF) in the Tauttunnguaqti role, which means “one who envisions” in Inuktitut.
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Aedan’s work at the SAW gallery has motivated their personal art practice and they now feel more confident in their skills and what they can achieve. They are in the process of creating a website to sell their work and create work on commission.
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To say that the last couple of years have been busy for Inuit Futures Ilinniaqtuk Benjamin McGregor would be a huge understatement. Born in Inuvik and raised in Sǫ̀mbak'è (Yellowknife, NWT), Benjamin is a director, screenwriter, and graduate of Capilano University’s Motion Picture Arts Program in North Vancouver, BC
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Leanne Inuarak-Dall is originally from Belleville and Ottawa, Ontario, and she has familial ties to Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet), Nunavut. Currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, British Columbia), Leanne is entering her third year of a Fine Arts program at Langara College, developing her artistic practice through the program’s various studio-based courses.
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Born in Yellowknife, Aghalingiak (Zoe Ohokannoak) is an artist, creative consultant and student at NSCAD University, working towards their Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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Tiffany Raddi was born in Inuvik, NWT in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region where her family is from. Now living in Ottawa, ON Tiffany is in her fourth year of a double major in English and Indigenous Studies at Carleton University
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Recently, we had the chance to catch up with one of our alumni, Emily Henderson, who has spent the past ten months in her new role as Profiles Editor at the Inuit Art Foundation. Emily’s relationship with the IAF goes back to January 2019 when she joined the Inuit Futures Project as an Ilinniaqtuk.
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Born and raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where they currently reside, Simeonie Kisa-Knickelbein is an emerging filmmaker and performer with Red Marrow Media, with special interests in directorial work, acting and storytelling.
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“For the past two or three years, I’ve been mostly focusing on my own history growing up in Nunavut and recalling different memories I can put down on canvas or paper, often just for my own interest,” she says. “I find the memories that stand out the most usually have to do with food, hunting or watching people bring in traditional food together. Food for us really is a community effort.”
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Raised in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Emily Henderson is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia with a BA in Anthropology
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Originally from Igluligaarjuk (Chesterfield Inlet) and now calling Rankin Inlet, NU, home, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski is a PhD student in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Growing up with a love of both art and science, Nicole decided to pursue what she describes as “the best of both worlds” by studying Environmental Design at the University of Manitoba.
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Hailing from Kinngait (Cape Dorset), Nunavut, Nakasuk Alariaq grew up surrounded by artists - including her great-aunt Kenojuak Ashevak – and has always considered Inuit art to be of great importance in her life. Nakasuk speaks proudly of her heritage and of her deep connection to her relatives
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I come from a storytelling culture, as an Inuvialuk from Aklavik. I grew up going out hunting and trapping for days at a time with my family so we would tell stories to one another. It gets awful quiet out in the bush and you have to stay entertained somehow.
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“It’s been unbelievable, the opportunities that I’ve had because of this project, and it’s really enriched my school experience and I’ve been able to do things I wouldn’t normally have done because of the Inuit Futures initiative and programming. I’m really appreciative.”
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“What haven’t I done so far?” they say when asked about their time as an Inuit Futures Ilinniaqtuk. “Since I first started [with Inuit Futures] I was able to go be a part of the first Memory Keepers at Nuit Blanche, which was a very intensive residency for me. It was a great crew and it really resonated with me how well we worked together.”
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Jessica Winters is an emerging artist and curator from Nunatsiavut, currently residing in Makkovik, Newfoundland. After completing her BA in Biology, Ecology and Conservation at Memorial University in St. John’s, NL, Jessica returned home where she continues to develop her artistic practice, guided by the careful instruction of her family and community members
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Jason Sikoak is an Inuk originally from Rigolet, Nunatsiavut in Labrador. Now in their final year as an undergraduate student at Concordia University studying studio arts and art history, Jason is embracing their life as an artist.
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