Kenojuak Ashevak

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Kenojuak Ashevak

Kenojuak Ashevak (born October 3, 1927) is a Canadian Inuit artist.

[edit] Honours

In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1982.
In 1970 Canada Post placed her 1960 print Enchanted Owl on a stamp to commemorate the centennial of the Northwest Territories.
In 1974 she was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
In 1980 Canada Post uses her 1961 print Return of the Sun on a seventeen cent as part of its Inuit stamp series.
In 1991 she received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University.
In 1992 she was awarded an honorary doctorate the University of Toronto.
In 1993 Canada Post featured the 1969 drawing The Owl for its Masterpieces of Canadian Art series.
In 1999 a famous piece of hers, the "Red Owl" was featured on the April issue of the 1999 Millennium quarter series. Her initials in Inuktitut - ᑭᓇᐊᓯᐃ - appear on the left of the design. This is the first time the language appears on circulation coinage.
She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2001.

[edit] Films

In 1963 she is featured in the National Film Board of Canada documentary Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak, directed by John Feeney, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1964. [1]

(Note on title: Feeney had suggested using the term "Inuit" in place of "Eskimo," but in 1963 it was rejected as an unfamiliar term to non-Inuit audiences)