Message from the Board
As the Inuit Art Foundation has grown from a single person office to a team of 18 in only a few short years, this season is a time for looking back at the highlights of the year and looking forward to the promises of the next.
This year we saw the fruition of the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award and the presenting of the inaugural prize to Iqaluit-based artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory at a ceremony at the Art Gallery of Ontario. After working for years to build this fund, it is now wonderful to be able to award this important prize to Inuit artists. Our flagship program, the Inuit Art Quarterly, was nominated for four National Magazine Awards and received silver in One of a Kind Storytelling for “30 Artists to Know,” which appeared in the Fall 2017 issue. Now the second most widely read art magazine in Canada, the IAQ continues to be an incredible success story and we look forward to another exciting year of critical and engaging content. Another highlight was the expansion of the Inuit Ar t Quarterly Profiles (formerly the Inuit Artist Database), which continues to be the definitive resource for both historic and contemporary Inuit artists working across any media. Finally, the IAF participated in its fourth Art Toronto this October and featured the photographic series inuuvugut by Niap (Nancy Saunders), the recipient of the 2018 Virginia J. Watt Memorial Award.
Given the many highlights of the past year, I look forward to sharing an exciting 2019 with you. Thank you for being part of our community, your continued generosity makes all of this possible. On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Inuit Art Foundation, I would like to wish all of our supporters, donors and readers a happy and safe holiday season and the very best for the New Year.
Patricia Feheley
Board Member, Inuit Art Foundation