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KAKULU SAGIATUK (SAGGIAKTOK; QAQULUK; KAKOOLOOK; KAKULOOK; SAGGIATUK)

Born: February 14, 1940 Female E7-930
Resides: Cape Dorset
Drawings, Prints, Sculpture


"Because I am not very old, I don't usually draw the old ways, but in my
mind I would like to. Because I am not very old I don't really remember.
I was born on the ship, the Nascopie, when my parents were travelling around
Baffin Island. I don't remember much about those early years but I have one
memory of being taken by canoe from the ship to the land by a white man."
Kakulu
Cape Dorset Print Catalogue 1978

Kakulu's mother Ikayukta Tunnillie (1911-1980) was a graphic artist. Her
husband Sagiatuk Sagiatuk is a prominent Cape Dorset printer.



EXHIBITIONS:

1966, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, Cape Dorset Graphics
1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, (annual collection)
1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, (illustrated catalogue)
1989, 1994, 1995

June - July 1967 4th National Burnaby Print Show
Burnaby Art Society
Burnaby, British Columbia

1970 Graphic Art by Eskimos of Canada:
First Collection
Cultural Affairs Division, Department
of External Affairs, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)

October - November 1973 Sculpture Inuit 25 Years After
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec

1975 - 1979 We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions
des Animaux
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development in
cooperation with the Department
of External Affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)


1977 The Contemporary Eskimo Prints and Sculpture
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)

July - August 1981 Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/
Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art
Rome, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)

May 1991 Inuit Music in Art: Singing and Dancing and
Playing
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario

November - December 1991 Art Inuit: Autour de la Collection de Cape
Dorset 1991
Presented by l'Iglou Art Esquimau, Douai
at Le Colombier
Ville D'Avray, France

December 1991 - March 1992 In Cape Dorset We Do It This Way: Three Decades
of Inuit Printmaking
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)

June - July 1992 Women of the North: An Exhibition
of art by Inuit Women of the
Canadian Arctic
Marion Scott Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)

May - June 1994 Cape Dorset Revisited - a collection
of previously unreleased prints, exhibited
at selected commercial galleries, organized by
West Baffin Eskimo Co-op
Cape Dorset, Northwest Territories


May 1994 - July 1995 Cape Dorset Revisited
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)

May - September 1995 Keeping Our Stories Alive:
An Exhibition of the Art and Crafts
from Dene and Inuit of Canada
Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)


COLLECTIONS:

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba



SELECTED REFERENCES:


ARTS OF THE ESKIMO: PRINTS: /Ed. by Ernst Roch. Texts by
Patrick Furneaux and Leo Rosshandler. Montreal: Signum Press in
association with Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1974.


Blodgett, Jean
IN CAPE DORSET WE DO IT THIS WAY: THREE DECADES OF INUIT
PRINTMAKING: Jean Blodgett/with essays by Heather Ardies,
Leslie Boyd and Linda Sutherland. Kleinburg, Ont. : McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, 1991.

Goetz, Helga
THE CONTEMPORARY ESKIMO PRINTS AND SCULPTURE. Fort Worth: Amon
Carter Museum of Western Art, 1977.

Gustavison, Susan J.
ARCTIC EXPRESSIONS: INUIT ART AND THE CANADIAN ESKIMO ARTS
COUNCIL 1961 - 1989. Kleinburg, Ont.: McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, 1994.

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum
KEEPING OUR STORIES ALIVE: An Exhibition of Art and Crafts from
Dene and Inuit of Canada. Santa Fe, N.M.: Institute of American
Native Arts Museum, 1995.

Marion Scott Gallery
WOMEN OF THE NORTH: AN EXHIBITION OF ART BY INUIT WOMEN OF THE
CANADIAN ARCTIC: June 6-July 11, 1992. Vancouver: Marion
Scott Gallery, 1992.


(c) Inuit Art Section, INAC 1995