Like many Canadians, I wasn’t really exposed to Inuit art from our Arctic north until wandering through some of the tourist areas of cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Ottawa. Even though Inuit art has been marketed to the Canadian ‘south’ since the 1950s, it doesn’t get much mainstream publicity here. Most Canadians have never seen Inuit art in person. The more I saw Inuit art during my business trips around the country, the more I became intrigued with them, especially with the sculptures.
Each piece of Inuit sculpture had a museum-like quality to it perhaps because of the relative exoticness of Inuit art. The carvings looked very much like they came from another land even though the Arctic is part of Canada.
