Thank you for supporting Inuit artists!
Thanks to you, Inuit artists can continue to dream and create and have the recognition they deserve! You and other donors listed below came together this summer to make sure the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award (KAMA) will continue.
Gifts listed were received between July 26 and October 1, 2021.
Thank you to everyone who supports KAMA!
The Inuit Art Foundation would like to give a special thanks to the Willmott Bruce Hunter Foundation, which matched all gifts up to $20,000 to support Inuit artists through KAMA this year. In addition, the IAF would like to acknowledge John and Joyce Price and Erik Haites for their foundational support of the award in its early development and HMH Capital Corporation/Hugh Hall for his ongoing commitment to KAMA.
Thank you to these members of the Tunisijut Circle for their exceptional support through KAMA:
Kristiina Alariaq, Huit Huit Tours Ltd. Capedorset-inuitart.com
Bruce Bailey, in honour of Pat Feheley
Andrew Chodos
DUCA, in honour of Frits Albert Begemann’s legacy, in tribute to his passion for Inuit Art
Peter Goring
MacDonald Griffin Charitable Foundation
Inuit Art Society
Jackman Foundation
Rawlson King
Charles Kingsley
David and Liz Macdonald
Thank you to members of the Taqqitamaat Tunisijut Circle who made an additional gift in support of artists through KAMA:
Amy Adams
Mary Anglim
Dianne Hayman
Katarina Kupca
David Sproule, in memory of Jean Katherine Sproule and Robin Mercer-Sproule
Thank you to these KAMA donors who are new members of the Ikajuqtiit Circle:
Annette M. Boucher
Kashtin Fitzsimons
Anne-Remy Jones
Dr. P. Koppinen
Graham Mastersmith
Father Colin Peterson
Thank you to this wonderful group of supporters for their incredible and ongoing support of artists through KAMA and other IAF programs:
Eleanor Allgood
Susan Anthony
Heather Beecroft
Marc Bendick Jr. and Mary Lou Egan
Katharine Bocking
Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio
Deborah D. Gordon Linda Grussani Clive Harvey Ian Harvey
Molly K. Heines and Thomas J. Moloney
Andrew Hubbertz
D. K.
Cathy Kirkpatrick
Mary Lawrence Breinig
Gretchen Lawrie
Daryl and Marilyn Logan
Patricia McKeown
Patrick McLean
Tess and Duncan McLean, in memory of Terry Ryan
Heather McNab
Robert Michaud
David Muir
Lou Nelson
S. O’Hara Leslie Reid
Jim and Shelley Renner
Louise Rolingher Kassie Ruth
Dr. Jinder Sall
Iris Schweiger
Patricia Scott
Sara Stasiuk
Colleen Suche
Wayne Tompkins
Dr. Anne Vagi, thank you for art, which nourishes and heals us
Terry Vatrt
Karen Westrell and one anonymous donor
“I support the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award because Kenojuak Ashevak is an artist so close to my heart and because I want the next generation of artists to have opportunities.”
CAROL HEPPENSTALL, AUTHOR AND INUIT ART SPECIALIST