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Birth
Kenojuak Ashevak was born in Inuit in a igloo in a camp called Ikirasaq, her father Ushuakjuk, a Inuit hunter and fur trader and her mother Silaqqi. Kinojuak Ashevak also had a brother and a sister. -
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Kenojuak Ashevak
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Sickness
In 1950 a public health nurse had arrived in her Arctic village; Kenojuak, having tested positive after tuberculosis screening, was sent to Parc Savard hospital in Quebec City, where she stayed for over three years, from early 1952 to the summer of 1955. During her recovery, she learned to make dolls and to do beadwork, crafts which attracted the attention of civil administrator and pioneer Inuit art promoter James Archibald Houston and his wife Alma -
Career
Kenojuak Ashevak was the first women in Cape adorste to begin drawing then on 1955 she started to add on painting sceting and ther forms of visual arts -
Art style
Kenojuak Ashevak, was regarded as one of the most notable Canadian pioneers of modern Inuit art. Kenojuak Ashevak's Inuit art style is very traditional and spiritual to her home town adn her family. -
Honour (#2)
In 1974, she was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Which means that her art work was appreitiatiated and was shown through exposing her art and style to the city through media, therefore catching more reader's attention. These are one of many honours for Kenojuak Ashevak but all are equally sensere. -
Honours (#1)
kenojuakashevakwikapedia.comIn 1967, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1982. This was an one of many honours in her name. -
Death :(
Kenojuak Ashevak died Jan,8 2013 at the age of 85just this year just 6 months ago fron lung cancer. The morning she passed there was a brodcast on CBC and an article in "The New York Times." -
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