Museum of Inuit Art photographs for reporters, editors and web masters.

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Jerry Riley, Museum of Inuit Art, Toronto

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Image # 2050

David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, standing in front of a monumental work entitled Spirit World of the Inuit (whalebone, stone, ivory) by artist Manasie Akpaliapik (b. 1955, in Ikpiarjuk/Arctic Bay).

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Image # 2065

“Dancing with a walrus is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. Dancing Walrus, 2005, was created by Cape Dorset artist Noah Kelly.

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Image # 2070

“Dancing with a walrus is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. Dancing Walrus, 2005, was created by Cape Dorset artist Noah Kelly.

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  Image # 2076

“Some ideas get away, but not the idea of having a museum devoted uniquely to Inuit art,” says David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. The sculpture Big Fish Story, 2006, was created by artist David Ruben Piqtoukun (b. 1950, Paulatuk), who now lives in Jackson’s Point, Ontario.

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Image # 2082

“Motherhood is one of the great universal themes of art, including Inuit art,” says David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. Mother and Child, 2002, was created by artist Iola Ikkidluak (b. 1936, Kimmirut/Lake Harbour).

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Image # 2091

“A little bird told me that a museum for Inuit art would be a great idea. So, I listened,” says David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre. The sculpture Invoking Spirit Helpers, 2007, is by artist David Ruben Piqtoukun (b. 1950, Paulatuk) who now lives and works in Jackson’s Point, Ontario. 

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Image # 1971

Gordon Fox, chair of the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, left, and David Harris, president, right, in the museum’s Pedestal Gallery. The museum, three years in the making, was designed by Toronto architect, Pat Hanson of GH3. The interior design evokes the ice flows, snow drifts and wind swept tundra of the Canadian Arctic, so that Inuit art can be appreciated with some sense of the environment in which it was created.  

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Image # 2100

David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, admiring the sculpture Caribou, 2004.  The sculpture was carved by Kiawak Ashoona (b. 1933, Cape Dorset) whose photo sits on the display case in MIA’s sales gallery.

 

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Image # 2102

David Harris, prime mover behind the new Museum of Inuit Art (MIA) at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, admiring the sculpture Caribou, 2004 (stone).  The sculpture was carved by Kiawak Ashoona (b. 1933, Cape Dorset) whose photo sits on the display case in MIA’s sales gallery.

 

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