Alaskan and Canadian carvings, prints, sculptures, jewelry, and entertainment will be featured at the 16th annual Inuit Premiere on Saturday, Oct. 15 at Sivertson’s Gallery in Grand Marais.
The events, which also include Canadian throat-singing performances, poetry reading and fireside chats at the gallery, are free and open to the public.
This event is the only one of its kind in the lower 48 United States featuring original Canadian Inuit prints, soapstone carvings and Native Alaskan sculptures formed from walrus tusk, whale bone, whale baleen and soapstone. The gallery offers a wide variety of unique fossilized woolly mammoth molar and tusk jewelry. The woolly mammoth has been extinct for more than 4,000 years.
Sivertson’s annual events featuring Inuit work are typically in March. During their events they offer limited edition Cape Dorset Fine Arts prints from a Toronto arts organization dedicated to preserving Inuit art. “We are the only Cape Dorset Fine Arts authorized gallery in Minnesota,” says Abby Tofte, who oversees marketing at Sivertson Galleries. “We changed the timing of our event to coincide with Cape Dorset’s fall release of this year’s print collection.
The full schedule of events may be found at www.dorsetfinearts.com/2016-annual-print-collection or by calling the gallery at (218) 387- 2491.
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