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- Will Have Delays Updating Website This Week
Our office computer was fried over the weekend due to a power outtage. Our website software was on it. Fortunately, we backed up all important files to an external device but we still don't have access to our website management software yet. Normally, we remove items from our Native American Art Gallery as soon as they have been sold but we will not be able to do that this week until we get
- Extremely Rare Marbled Murrelet Bird Native Art Wood Carving
The marbled murrelet is a small seabird in the Pacific northwest coastal region that is facing endangered status because of overlogging. A customer wanted to get a Northwest native art wood carving of such a bird so Free Spirit Gallery commissioned master carver Cody Mathias to produce one.
We sent Cody some photos of the marbled murrelet and he designed a Northwest Native art version.
- Inuit Drawings Paintings On Display
The TD Inuit art exhibit also had some really nice Inuit drawings or paintings. Some photos were taken and they are just being edited right now for an upcoming article at the Free Spirit Gallery website. More than likely, these will be part of the first articles of the TD Inuit art gallery visit to come out next month. They will be announced in the June newsletter. Sign up for our free
- More Inuit Art Culture Videos To Come
Most of the new videos we have produced in the 12 months have been of Native American art and culture due to the type of events we have attended. However, this will change in the future since we took lots of video footage of the TD Bank's Inuit art collection in Toronto. We are due for more Inuit art content since our Inuit Art Culture Videos section is pretty slim compared to its counterpart
- White Stone Inuit Sculptures
The partnership that we have with Gallery Canada is working out quite nicely. Gallery Canada focuses on white stone Inuit sculptures since they source their artwork from a region where there is an abundant supply of white stone. Free Spirit Gallery doesn't really deal with such pieces so if customers do not see anything they like at our Inuit Sculptures section, they can simply click on links
- Spread Wing Native Bird Wood Carvings All Sold Out
You might recall that a few months ago, master carver Paul Joseph sent us several of his unique spread wing native bird wood carvings including eagles, ravens and thunderbirds. The very last one which was a thunderbird, was sold last week. These spread wing bird carvings are very rare and I don't know when we will get anymore from Paul. In fact, all of our Paul Joseph native wood carvings are
- More Pacific Northwest Aboriginal Art On Its Way
It's just been confirmed that more Pacific Northwest aboriginal art is on its way to our online art gallery. Master carver Cody Mathias has created several new carvings for us including some new wolves which we never had before. So this should be very interesting. He also completed one of our custom art projects for a customer and details of that piece will be available for sharing soon.
- Not Much Northwest Indian Art Left
Our Northwest Indian art has been selling well and there's not much left at our online art gallery. Several wood carvings and one nice Northwest Indian art print. But we hope to get a few more pieces in from master carver Cody Mathias sometime this month. So stay tuned. In any case, you might want to check out what we have left before they are all gone.
- Pacific Northwest Native Culture Information
The Sealaska Heritage Institute have put together an informative educational series online on Pacific Northwest native culture, particularly, Tlingit culture. Details are at Tlingit Culture series.
Of course, we have a huge collection of Pacific Northwest Indian Art information and Native American Culture articles as well.
- Toronto Area Customers of Inuit Native Art Getting Personal Deliveries
Looks like more and more of the local Toronto area customers of Inuit art and Native Indian art are taking advantage of Free Spirit Gallery's quick personal (and mostly free) deliveries of pieces. Just in the last week or so, we have made four such personal deliveries to customers in the local Toronto and surrounding area. Most of the time, they received their Inuit art or Native Indian art the
- New Dancing Bear Inuit Carving
The new dancing bear Inuit carving is actually one of two dancing bears by Moe Pootoogook of Cape Dorset that we currently have at our Inuit art gallery right now. This recent arrival is like a smaller version of the other we have. For more details, click on the image below and to see all of them, see our Polar Bears Inuit Carvings.
- New Inuit Art Inukshuk Sculptures Are In
We have received a few new Inuit art inukshuk sculptures. These include a classic shaped inukshuk, another rare white one and a larger asymetrically shaped piece.
We also got in a new Inuit art dancing bear by Moe Pootoogook.
- New Inuit Inukshuks Will Be In This Week
New Inuit inukshuks have arrived at our Inuit art gallery and we are currently processing them. They should be up on our gallery website later this week so stay tuned for them. Meanwhile, there currently is a rare Inuit inukshuk with a seal carving available.
- Visit to TD Bank's Inuit Art Collection
I went downtown to deliver an Inuit inukshuk carving to a customer today and since I was down there, I decided to visit the TD Bank's Inuit art collection. It's not a large collection but TD certainly has some really nice pieces. The TD Bank collection is one of the permanent Inuit Art Galleries in existence.
I ended up taking video footage of almost the entire collection and took many photos
- Inuit Hip Hop TV Program
There will be a TV documentary called Arctic Hip Hop on the Global television station on April 19 at 7 pm EST. Here is the synopsis:
5 days, 2 cultures, 1 beat in the remote Hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.
Capitalizing on the popularity of Hip Hop, Social Worker and longtime B-boy Stephen Leafloor has brought positive Hip Hop workshops to the north. While dancing to the beat, kids are
- First Nation Carvers Stop During Deaths
I learned something about First Nation traditions yesterday. When I was speaking to Cody Mathias, a master First Nation carver, I was told that there were two recent community deaths. During these times, First Nation carvers stop carving as a tradition. I didn't know that.
As a result, this will delay a few of the custom First Nation artwork that was commissioned but our master carvers should
- Inuit Native Basketry
Quite often in Inuit Native basketry, the artisans attach a small Inuit soapstone sculpture as a handle for the lid of the native basket. This certainly adds a new dimension to native basketry.
One of our new additions at our Inuit art gallery is such a native basket with an Inuit soapstone sculpture as a lid handle. This Inuit native basket was made by Lucy Weetaluktuk of Inukjuak up in the
- Arctic Needs More Nursing Students
Officials at Nunavut Arctic College (NAC) want to attract more people, especially Inuit, into the health care professions. While most NAC programs (such as the various Inuit art programs) are filled, only 5 students have signed up for 14 spots in the school's nursing program. Part of the problem, officials say, is that many high school grads must spend a year upgrading their math and science
- Eskimo Native Basketry
Here is one of the examples of fine Eskimo Native basketry. It is one of the native baskets we brought back to our Eskimo art gallery last week. It was made by Emily Novalinga from Nunavik which is the Arctic Quebec region. For more details of this Eskimo native basket, click on the image below.
- Caribou Antler Inuit Bird Carving Quickly Sold
The Inuit bird carving that was made entirely from caribou antler was quickly sold after the announcement of its arrival came out. So this shows that for some of the rare and special pieces, one must be have access to the information on latest arrivals of Inuit artwork at our gallery. The best way to do this is to be on our list of monthly newsletter subscribers which is free. Annoucements
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