Qaumajuq opens house of healing, gaining knowledge of as Indigenous guests get sneak top at Inuit artwork centre
© Lindsay Reid The vault at Qaumajuq residences thousands of works from across the north that will be visible the second you stroll in. there is a heat that hits in the event you stroll during the front doors of the Winnipeg art Gallery's Qaumajuq Inuit artwork centre, as sunlight reflects off a four-storey glass vault that shows lots of carvings. Seeing these cold stone depictions of hunters, wild animals and different scenes from the north, showcased across three floors of the forty,000-square-foot space, brings a way of warmth to Janet Kanayok. "For me, it's healing," says Kanayok, at first from Ulukhaktok, N.W.T. "we have now been so homesick that it be truly satisfactory to be round our artwork, our ancestors and all the experiences that [are] being told." Small corporations of Inuit, First Nation and Métis friends were among the many first contributors of the public to view one of the vital very nearly 14,000-piece collection at Qaumajuq on Mo