NWT Arts

Ruth Modeste

Region:

South Slave

Community:

Fort Smith

Growing up in Ulukhaktok, I’d often see family members making beaded uppers for moccasins and other crafts, using thread to make the flowers. I can remember being taught how to bead by different teachers in my Innuinaqtun class. Today, I use those skills and influence, mixed with a more modern...

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Jon Labine

Region:

South Slave

Community:

Fort Smith

I consider myself a blacksmith and I create art with metals. I especially like to make art pieces that serve a purpose, like tools with alluring features. For example, I modify the railway spikes that hold tracks to the ground into fire pokers, or coat hooks. I add a literal twist to common...

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