Museums at the Senate
This program showcases the diversity and quality of artwork found in museums and galleries across Canada.
Exhibitions
This installation features a collection of prints by renowned Inuit artists, loaned to the Senate by the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq. The works depict various aspects of Northern life — from hunting and nature to family life and spirituality — and form the backdrop for senators’ work in committee room B-30 in the Senate of Canada Building.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq holds in trust the world’s largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art — just over 12,000 objects. In 2015, the Government of Nunavut loaned the gallery a further 7,300 objects from its Fine Art Collection. In March 2021, the Winnipeg Art Gallery celebrated the opening of Qaumajuq, a unique Inuit art centre connected to the gallery.
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Mary K. Okheena. Shaman Dances to Northern Lights, 1991. Stencil on paper. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Gift of Holman Eskimo Co-operative. (Photo credit: Ernest Mayer, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
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Pitaloosie Saila. Arctic Madonna, 1980. Stonecut, stencil on paper. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Gift of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. (Photo credit: Leif Norman, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
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Simon Tookoome. The World of Men and the World of Animals Come Together in the Shaman, 1973. Stonecut and stencil on paper. Government of Nunavut Fine Art Collection. On long-term loan to the Winnipeg Art Gallery. (Photo credit: Serge Gumenyuk, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
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Kenojuak Ashevak. Talelayu Opiitlu (Talelayu with Owl), 1979. Stonecut, stencil on paper. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Gift of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. (Photo credit: Ernest Mayer, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
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Syollie Amituk. Family Hunting, 1963. Stonecut on paper. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The Swinton Collection. (Photo credit: Ernest Mayer, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
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Andrew Qappik. Pause, 2002. Stencil on paper. Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Given by the Council for Canadian American Relations through the generosity of H.G. Jones. (Photo credit: Leif Norman, courtesy of the Winnipeg Art Gallery)
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