Art & Heritage
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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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