Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection 2007 October 19, 2007

The Annual Print Collection from Cape Dorset is the much anticipated Inuit art event of the Fall season. A tradition since 1959, the collection presents the work of Cape Dorset's talented graphic artists—both young and old working together in the co-operatively owned Kinngait Studios.

"Cape Dorset is located north of Hudson Bay on the southwest tip of Baffin Island, well above the treeline and just south of the Arctic Circle. The Inuit inhabitants have always called the area Kinngait (pronounced king-ite), meaning "the place of hills," but it was named Cape Dorset in 1631 by the British explorer Captain Luke Foxe, who mapped the region during his unsuccessful search for the Northwest Passage; he named it in honour of the Earl of Dorset, who had sponsored the expedition. Today, Cape Dorset is a modern community of nearly fourteen hundred inhabitants in the newly created Canadian territory of Nunavut." — excerpt from Cape Dorset Sculpture

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