{"id":1229,"date":"2018-05-25T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/?page_id=1229"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:11:01","slug":"pitseolak-ashoona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/pitseolak-ashoona\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitseolak Ashoona"},"content":{"rendered":"

(1904-1983)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Located in CB 301.4, in hallway (College Avenue 3rd Floor)<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\u00a9 Pitseolak Ashoona. Reproduced with the permission of the Dorset Fine Arts. Photograph by the University of Regina.<\/p><\/div>\n

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(left) Pitseolak Ashoona<\/strong>
Canadian (Inuit) (lived Cape Dorset (Kinngait), NWT) 1904-1983<\/strong>
Printmaker: <\/strong>Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (1931-2000)<\/strong>
Young Woman and Owl<\/em><\/strong> (27\/50), 1979<\/strong>
Stonecut stencil on paper<\/strong>
University of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection, Shumiatcher Donation. Gift of<\/strong> Dr. Morris C. Shumiatcher, O.C., S.O.M., Q.C. and Dr. Jacqui Clay Shumiatcher, S.O.M., C.M., 2017; sc.2017.01<\/strong><\/p>\n

(right) Pitseolak Ashoona
Canadian (Inuit) (lived Cape Dorset (Kinngait), NWT) 1904-1983
Joyful Owl<\/em> (10\/50), 1961
stonecut on laid japan paper
University of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection, Shumiatcher Donation. Gift of Dr. Morris C. Shumiatcher, O.C., S.O.M., Q.C. and Dr. Jacqui Clay Shumiatcher, S.O.M., C.M., 2017; sc.2017.27.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The desire to record the \u201cold way\u201d of Inuit life played a central role in the thousands of prints and drawings Pitseolak Ashoona produced between 1960 and 1983. Her daughter-in-law noted: \u201cTheir clothing, the way they travelled, it was there on the paper. She drew exactly how the Inuit lived in the old days.\u201d Pitseolak recognised that the rapidly-changing life she remembered could continue via her art. Drawing both from memory and imagination, she filled the paper with far-reaching themes: her childhood, family life, games, imagination, and experiences as an artist. The moment of fantastic flight in Young Woman and Owl<\/em> includes the bright colours of felt pens, her favoured medium. Pitseolak\u2019s trademark depictions of women\u2019s braided hair and clothing derive, perhaps, from her domestic activities, where her eye for detail was honed in the many beautiful clothes she made, much to the envy of her neighbours.<\/p>\n

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(la gauche) Pitseolak Ashoona<\/strong>
Canadienne (Inuite) (a v\u00e9cu \u00e0 Cape Dorset (Kinngait), T.N.-O.<\/strong>) 1904-1983<\/strong>
Graveur: <\/strong>Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (1931-2000)<\/strong>
Jeune femme et hibou<\/em><\/strong> (27\/50), 1979<\/strong>
Gravure sur pierre et pochoir sur papier<\/strong>
Collection d\u2019art du recteur de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Regina, donation Shumiatcher. Don de M. Morris C. Shumiatcher, O.C., S.O.M., Q.C. et de Mme Jacqui Clay Shumiatcher, S.O.M., C.M., 2017; sc.2017.01<\/strong><\/p>\n

(droite) Pitseolak Ashoona<\/strong>
Canadienne (Inuite) (a v\u00e9cu \u00e0 Cape Dorset (Kinngait), T.N.-O.) 1904-1983<\/strong>
Graveur: <\/strong>Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (1931-2000)<\/strong>
Le hibou heureux<\/em><\/strong> (10\/50), 1961<\/strong>
Gravure sur pierre sur papier japon verg\u00e9<\/strong>
Collection d\u2019art du recteur de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Regina, donation Shumiatcher. Don de M. Morris C. Shumiatcher, O.C., S.O.M., Q.C. et de Mme Jacqui Clay Shumiatcher, S.O.M., C.M., 2017; sc.2017.27<\/strong><\/p>\n

Le d\u00e9sir de saisir l\u2019\u00ab\u2009ancien mode de vie\u2009\u00bb des Inuits joue un r\u00f4le majeur dans la cr\u00e9ation des milliers d\u2019estampes et de dessins que Pitseolak Ashoona r\u00e9alise entre 1960\u00a0et1983. Sa bru a fait la remarque suivante: \u00ab\u2009Comment ils s\u2019habillaient, comment ils voyageaient, tout est l\u00e0 sur le papier. Elle dessinait exactement comment les Inuit vivaient autrefois.\u2009\u00bb Pitseolak \u00e9st consciente du fait que son art lui permettra de perp\u00e9tuer la vie qu\u2019elle a connue. Puisant dans ses souvenirs aussi bien que dans son imaginaire, elle dessine des sujets d\u2019une grande port\u00e9e: son enfance, sa vie de famille, ses jeux, son imaginaire et ses exp\u00e9riences d\u2019artiste. Ce vol fantasque saisi dans le moment de Jeune femme et hibou <\/em>renferme les couleurs vives des crayons-feutres qu\u2019elle affectionne particuli\u00e8rement. Ses descriptions si caract\u00e9ristiques de v\u00eatements et des tresses de femmes rel\u00e8vent peut-\u00eatre de ses activit\u00e9s domestiques qui lui ont permis de d\u00e9velopper son sens du d\u00e9tail lors qu\u2019elle confectionnait tous les beaux v\u00eaments qui suscitaient l\u2019envie de ses voisins.<\/p>\n

Traduction de texte par La Cit\u00e9 universitaire francophone\/ translation by La Cit\u00e9 universitaire francophone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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(1904-1983) Located in CB 301.4, in hallway (College Avenue 3rd Floor) \u00a0 (left) Pitseolak AshoonaCanadian (Inuit) (lived Cape Dorset (Kinngait), NWT) 1904-1983Printmaker: Eegyvudluk Pootoogook (1931-2000)Young Woman and Owl (27\/50), 1979Stonecut stencil on paperUniversity of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection, Shumiatcher Donation. Gift of Dr. Morris C. Shumiatcher, O.C., S.O.M., Q.C. and Dr. Jacqui Clay Shumiatcher, S.O.M., C.M., 2017; sc.2017.01 (right) Pitseolak AshoonaCanadian (Inuit) (lived Cape Dorset (Kinngait), NWT) 1904-1983Joyful Owl (10\/50), 1961stonecut on laid japan paperUniversity of Regina President\u2019s Art Collection, Shumiatcher Donation. Gift of Dr. Morris C. Shumiatcher, O.C., S.O.M., Q.C. and Dr. Jacqui Clay Shumiatcher, S.O.M., C.M., 2017; sc.2017.27…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-indigenous","category-inuit","category-printmaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.uregina.ca\/president\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}