Prairie Design Lab
October 28, 2020: Episode 4: Mamaqtuq
The world’s biggest collection of Inuit art will soon be displayed at the brand new Inuit Art Centre at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Twelve years in the making, we will hear from those who made it happen. This includes WAG CEO Stephen Borys and leading expert on Inuit art Dr. Heather Igloliorte of Nunatsiavut as well as world-famous architect Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles
This was taken just out on Eclipse Sound off Pond Inlet at the northern tip of Baffin Island. We are standing in front of the iceberg that had got lodged in the sound and spent the winter there. We were looking to harvest icicles to bring back to the elders at Pond who cherished the ancient meltwater from the icebergs — Photo and caption by Terry Macleod
A family on their Skidoo in Pond Inlet on Eclipse Sound. you can see their dog team beside them and their overturned komatik (wooden handmade sled). In the background are the mountains of the Bylot Island Migratory Bird Sanctuary. Pond Inlet is now known as Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut — Photo and caption by Terry Macleod