Throughout Ashevak’s prolific career, the style and themes first developed in The Enchanted Owl became her signature, influencing countless other artists who regarded her as the matriarch of ...

stylized motifs and coded symbols of Inuit culture and folklore, brought her international acclaim. “There is no word for art,” she once said. “We say it is to transfer something from the real to the ...

The oral history of Inuit is filled with many folktales legends and myths In this traditional story a young owl catches a lemming to eat Inuit stories are often instructive and with this fable ...