Uvajuq

by David F. Pelly

  The stencil prints, designed, created and executed by Elsie Klengenberg to depict the legend of Uvajuq were commissioned by the Kitikmeot Heritage Society. A permanent display of the prints will be hung in the new Community Library and Cultural Centre being built in Cambridge Bay. Only three sets of the prints were made. All three sets are the property of the Kitikmeot Heritage Society, as are the original pencil sketches, which Elsie made as she worked out how to illustrate the legend. The acid-free, 100 % cotton fibre paper on which the prints are rendered measures 19.75 inches high by 25.5 inches wide (50 × 65 cm).

  Elsie Anaginak Klengenberg

  EXHIBITIONS:

  Holman Prints (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue) 1970, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995

  Holman Prints (printmaker) (annual collection) (illustrated catalogue) 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993

  The Prints Never Seen: Holman, 1977-1987 (illustrated catalogue) March 1993, Albers Gallery of Inuit Art, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

  The Great Northern Arts Festival, July 1993, Inuvik, Northwest Territories

  Keeping Our Stories Alive: An Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts from Dene and Inuit of Canada (illustrated catalogue) May-September 1995, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.

  Social Relations, A collection of prints exhibited at selected commercial galleries, November 1996, Organized by Canadian Arctic Producers, Winnipeg, Manitoba

  Elsie Klengenberg: Legend of Uvajuq (illustrated catalogue)

  October 1999–January 2000, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

  COLLECTIONS:

  Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.

  Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec

  Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta

  Inuit Cultural Institute, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut

  Kitikmeot Heritage Society, Cambridge Bay, Nunavut

  National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

  Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre,

  Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

  Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba