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JESSIE OONARK (UNA; UNAAQ) Born: 1906 Female E2-384
Place of Birth: Back River area
Died: 1985
Resided: Baker Lake
Drawings, Prints, Wallhangings
"Jessie Oonark was born in the area of northern Canada known as the Barren
Lands, north and west of the present-day village of Baker Lake, Northwest
Territories, where she settled in the late 1950s. Her childhood and young
adulthood were spent in the traditional pursuits of an Inuit woman: dressing
caribou and sealskins, and making parkas and other items of traditional
clothing. Oonark began her career as a graphic artist in 1959, when a Canadian
biologist working in Baker Lake gave her art supplies. Her talent was
immediately recognized, and she was soon making drawings for sale. A selection
of Oonark's drawings were sent from Baker Lake to Cape Dorset, the only Inuit
settlement issuing prints at the time....She was the only outsider ever
included in the Cape Dorset print program.
Oonark was a major force in the development of the graphic arts program at
Baker Lake in the 1960s and 1970s. Her singular talent was rewarded by an art
advisor at Baker Lake who gave Oonark her own studio and a small salary to
allow her the freedom of full-time artistic creativity. (She had previously
been working as a janitor at the local church.) Between 1970 and 1985 more
than 100 of Oonark's drawings were translated into prints and issued in the
annual Baker Lake print editions.
A strong, bold graphic sense informs all of Oonark's work. Traditional
dress, women's facial tatoos, and shamanistic themes are common in her art,
yet they usually appear as isolated, fragmentary forms, shaped into a
graphically bold image rather than a comprehensible narrative. Oonark is also
well known as a textile artist, whose wool and felt wall-hangings reveal her
as a master of color and form."
Janet Catherine Berlo
In "North American Women Artists
of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical
Dictionary" 1995.
EXHIBITIONS: 1960, 1961 Cape Dorset Graphics
(annual collection)
(illustrated catalogue)
Jan - Feb1967 Cape Dorset - A Decade of Eskimo
Prints & Recent Sculpture
National Gallery of Canada,
in cooperation with the Canadian
Eskimo Art Committee
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, Baker Lake Print Collection
1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, (annual collection)
1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985 (illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1970 Oonark/Pangnark
National Arts Centre,
curated by the National Museum
of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1970 - Jan1972 Two Artists of the Northwest Territories
National Art Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1970 Canadian Eskimo Arts Festival
Alaska Methodist University Galleries
Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1971 Eskimo Art in Poetry and Pictures
Junior Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art
circulated by the Government of Canada and the
National Museum of Civilization, Ottawa
New York, U.S.A.
Sept - Oct 1971 Eskimo Carvings and Prints from the
Collection of York University
Art Gallery of York University
Downsview, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
January - March 1972 Eskimo Fantastic Art
Gallery 111, School of Art,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - September 1972 Baker Lake Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
1973 Three Artists from Baker Lake
Mazelow Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
1973 - 1974 Baker Lake Prints and Drawings:
1970-1973
Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Extension Services
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(catalogue)
1974 Crafts from Arctic Canada/Artisanat de
l'arctique canadien
Canadian Eskimo Arts Council
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1974 Eskimo Wallhangings
McIntosh Gallery,
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
(brochure)
October 1974 Kathleen Fenwick Memorial Exhibition
Gallery Pascal
Stratford, Ontario
Oct - Nov 1974 Eskimo Art
Queens Museum
Flushing, New York, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
1975 - 1979 We Lived by Animals/Nous Vivions
des Animaux
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development in
cooperation with the Department
of External Affairs
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct 1975 - Dec 1977 Inuit Games/Inuit Pinguangit/Jeux des inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
December 1975 The Art of Eskimo Women: in
Sculpture, Prints, Wall-hangings
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
1976 Baker Lake Drawings
Lippel Gallery
Montreal, Quebec
1976 - 1982 Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Symbolism in Eskimo Art
Canadian Arctic Producers and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - August 1976 Art Collection D'Art
Canadian Catholic Conference of Bishops
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
June - August 1976 The People Within - Art from
Baker Lake
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1976 Baker Lake Festival: Sculpture, Drawings,
and Wallhangings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
July - August 1976 Bicentennial Tribute, an Exhibition of North
American Native Art
Gallery Pascal
Toronto, Ont
July - August 1976 A Tribute to Baker Lake
Gallery One
Toronto, Ont
1977 Kayaks and Umiaks
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Ontario
Jan 1977 - Jun 1982 The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and the
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1977 Kenojuak/Oonark: Prints -
Wallhangings - Sculpture
Inukshuk Galleries
Waterloo, Ontario
Sept - Oct 1977 The Eskimo Woman: her life and dreams
in prints and sculpture
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
1978 Looking South
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1978 The Coming and Going of the Shaman:
Eskimo Shamanism and Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
August 1978 Inuit Games and Contests: The Clifford E.
Lee Collection of Prints
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
(illustrated catalogue)
Aug - Nov 1978 The Zazelenchuk Collection of Eskimo Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1978 Polar Vision: Canadian Eskimo Graphics
Jerusalem Artists' House Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
(illustrated catalogue)
Dec 1978 - Jan 1979 Baker Lake Drawings
Gallimaufrey
Croton-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
January - June 1979 Spirits and Dreams - Arts of the Inuit
of Baker Lake
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
March - April 1979 Canadian Eskimo Art: a representative
exhibition from the collection of Professor
and Mrs. Philip Gray
Fine Arts Gallery, Montana State
University
Bozeman, Montana, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
March - May 1979 Eskimo Narrative
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - August 1979 21 X 12 (Eskimo Drawing Exhibition)
Inuk 1 Gallery
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
July 1979 - May 1980 Inuit Art in the 1970s
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development, and the
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
July 1979 - 1981 Keewatin Wallhangings 1979-1981
Canadian Arctic Producers Ltd.
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
Aug 1979 - Sept 1981 Baker Lake Prints and Print Drawings
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(catalogue)
Nov 1979 - Oct 1984 Shamans and Spirits: Myths and Medical
Arts and Learning Services Foundation
(this is a duplicate of the C.A.P. and
National Museum of Man exhibition of
1976-1981)
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(tour)
Jan - Feb1980 Inuit Master Artists of the 1970s
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
March - April 1980 A Culture on Paper: Baker Lake Drawings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
April - May 1980 The Klamer Family Collection of Inuit
Art from the Art Gallery of Ontario
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
July - August 1980 Inuit Graphics from the Collection of the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
August - October 1980 The Inuit Amautik: I Like My Hood To Be Full
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept- Oct1980 La deesse inuite de la mer/The Inuit Sea Goddess
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept 1980 - Feb 1981 Things Made by Inuit
La Federation des Cooperatives du
Nouveau-Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1980 Baker Lake Prints - Ten Year Retrospective
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
April - May 1981 Festival of Birds
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Apr 1981 - Mar 1982 Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from
the Collection of the National Museum of
Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent
Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada
National Museum of Man, Ottawa and
Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1981 Transformation
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
July - August 1981 Eskimo Games: Graphics and Sculpture/
Giuochi Eschimesi: grafiche e sculture
National Gallery of Modern Art
Rome, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1981 The Jacqui and Morris Shumiatcher
Collection of Inuit Art
Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery,
University of Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct - Nov 1981 The Inuit Sea Goddess
Surrey Art Gallery,
(organized to complement the Musee
des beaux-arts de Montreal exhibit
of the same name)
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
Oct 1981 - Feb 1983 The Murray and Marguerite Vaughan Inuit
Print Collection
Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fredericton, New Brunswick
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1982 Canada Mikrokosma - An Exhibition
of Contemporary Canadian Tapestries by
Twenty-two Canadian Artists
Barbican Centre for Arts
and Conferences, London, organized by
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Kingston, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
September 1982 Break-up and Freeze-up
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
(catalogue)
Dec 1982 - Jan 1983 Noel au Chateau - Art inuit de la
collection Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
presented at Chateau Dufresne
Montreal, Quebec
1983 Hunter of the Sacred Game: Traditional
Life on the Land
Organized by the Arts and Learning
Services Foundation
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(tour)
Feb - Mar1983 Return of the Birds
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
February - April 1983 Baker Lake Prints & Print-Drawings:
1970-1976
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
May 1983 - April 1985 Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections from
the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
Sept - Oct 1983 Inuit Survival
Enook Galleries, Waterloo, Ontario
Presented at the University of Waterloo
Art Gallery
Waterloo, Ontario
Oct - Dec 1983 Inuit Masterworks: Selections from
the Collection of Indian and Northern
Affairs Canada
McMichael Canadian Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
Nov 1983 - Mar 1985 Contemporary Indian and Inuit Art of Canada
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Ottawa, presented at the
General Assembly Building, United Nations
New York, New York, U.S.A.
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
Feb 1984 - Jun 1986 Arctic Vision: Art of the Canadian Inuit
Department of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development and Canadian
Arctic Producers
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - June 1984 The Oral Tradition
National Museum of Man
Ottawa, Ontario
April 1984 Games of the Inuit
Northern Images
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
June 1984 A Retrospective View
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
June 1984 Demons and Spirits and those who
wrestled with them
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
June - August 1984 Cape Dorset Prints: Twenty-Five Years
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
September 1984 Drawings from Baker Lake
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
Sept - Oct 1984 On the Land
The Arctic Circle
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Nov - Dec 1984 Die Kunst aus der Arktis
Inuit Galerie, Mannheim
held at Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Institute, University of Siegen
at Villa Waldrich
Siegen, Germany
(illustrated catalogue)
Nov - Dec 1984 50 Inuit Prints
Canadian Arctic Producers in
coordination with the Hudson's Bay
Company Inuit Art Marketing Service,
held at Simpson's
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November 1984 - February 1985 Stones, Bones, Cloth, and Paper:
Inuit Art in Edmonton Collections
Edmonton Art Gallery
Edmonton, Alberta
1985 Inuit Art
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Extension Services; Public Schools
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
(tour)
June 1985 Alaska Eskimo Dolls/Inuit Prints
Provincial Museum of Alberta,
sponsored by the Alaska State
Council on the Arts
Edmonton, Alberta
(tour)
June 1985 Baker Lake Prints 1985
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
June 1985 - September 1987 Chisel and Brush/Le ciseau et la brosse
Department of Indian Affairs
and Northern Development
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
July - September 1985 Multiple Perspectives from Baker Lake
University of Michigan
Alumni Centre
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.
May - June 1986 The Spirit of the Land
The Koffler Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
June 1986 New Beginnings: a celebration of Native
expression at the first Native Business
Summit
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Toronto, Ontario
July - September 1986 Contemporary Inuit Art
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
November 1986 Inuit Graphics Through the Year: Rare
Prints from the Arctic
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
January - February 1987 The Matriarchs: Jessie Oonark, Helen Kalvak,
Pitseolak Ashoona
Snow Goose Associates
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
February - June 1987 The Lindsay and Swartz Collections:
New Acquisitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
May - June 1987 Inuit Graphics from the Past
Arctic Artistry
Scarsdale, New York, U.S.A.
August - September 1987 I Am Always Thinking About the Animals
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
(illustrated brochure)
November 1987 Inuit Traditions in Graphics: 1961-1987
Arctic Artistry
Hartsdale, New York, U.S.A.
December 1987 - March 1989 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - April 1988 Works on Paper from the Permanent
Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
June - September 1988 The World Around Me
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery
Lethbridge, Alberta
October 1988 Baker Lake: Persistence of Old Memories
Brandon Allied Arts Council
Brandon, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
November - December 1988 Inuit Women and their Art: Graphics
and Wallhangings
Gallery 210,
University of Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
(illustrated brochure)
December 1988 - 1989 Im Schatten der Sonne:Zeitgenossische Kunst
der Indianer und Eskimos in Kanada/In the
Shadow of the Sun:Contemporary Indian and Inuit
Art in Canada
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Ottawa, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
January 1989 Cold Stones, Warm Hearts: Inuit Art
from the Northwest Territories
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A.
August - September 1989 Baker Lake Prints: 1970 - 1982
Retrospective
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
August - October 1989 Inuit Graphic Art from Indian
& Northern Affairs Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
October 1989 Baker Lake Print Retrospective:
A Twenty Year Anniversary
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated catalogue)
1990 Inuit Art From the Glenbow Collection
Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta
January - September 1990 Arctic Mirror
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Hull, Quebec
February - March 1990 Inuit Drawings
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
(illustrated catalogue)
June - September 1990 Inuit Graphics and Drawings from 1959-1990
Arctic Artistry
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
October - November 1990 A Woman's Vision
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
January 1991 Sojourns to Nunavut: Contemporary Inuit Art
from Canada
at Bunkamura Art Gallery, presented by the
University of British Columbia Museum of
Anthropology and The McMichael Canadian Art
Collection
Tokyo, Japan
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1991 Shamans and Spirits: Origins of the Healing
Hearts
Orca Aart
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
June - November 1991 Qamanittuaq: The Art of Baker Lake
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
November 1991 - March 1992 Moving Around the Form:
Inuit Sculpture and Prints
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
March - April 1992 Selections from the McMaster Art Gallery
Collection
McMaster Art Gallery
Hamilton, Ontario
June 1992 - December 1993 Oonark, Pudlo, Kananginak
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated brochure)
August 1992 Each Depends on the Other
Houston North Gallery
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
(illustrated brochure)
1993 - 1993 Arts from the Arctic
Anchorage Museum of History and Art
Anchorage, Alaska
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1993 Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art from the
Canadian Arctic
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore
(tour)
November - December 1993 Women Who Draw: 30 Years of Graphic
Art from the Canadian Arctic
Feheley Fine Arts
Toronto, Ontario
November 1993 - January 1994 Contemporary Inuit Drawings
Muscarelle Museum of Art
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1994 Patiently I Sing
Selections from the Tyler/Brooks Collection
Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
(illustrated catalogue)
March - August 1994 Kunst aus der Arktis
Volkerkundmuseum der Universitat Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
(illustrated catalogue)
May - June 1994 Share the Vision
Philadelphians Collect Inuit Art
Art Space Gallery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
July 1994 Arctic Spirit
35 Years of Canadian Inuit Art
Frye Art Museum
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
August 1994 - April 1997 Qamanittuaq: Where the River Widens
Drawings by Baker Lake Artists
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Guelph, Ontario
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March - July 1995 Immaginario Inuit
Arte e cultura degli esquimesi canadesi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna
e Contemporanea
Verona, Italy
(illustrated catalogue)
June 1995 - February 1996 Inuit Woman: Life and Legend in Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
November 1995 - January 1996 Qiviuq: A Legend in Art
Carleton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
March - April 1996 Works on Paper from the Permanent
Collection of Inuit Art
Canadian Guild of Craft Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: June 1970 Oonark Drawings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
1971 Oonark Drawings
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
1971 Oonark Wallhangings
National Arts Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
April 1971 Oonark Wallhangings
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
1973 Oonark Drawings
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec
Montreal, Quebec
March 1974 Drawings by Oonark
Canadian Guild of Crafts
Montreal, Quebec
1977 Jessie Oonark, R.C.A. - Prints and Drawings
1970 through 1976
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(brochure)
1978 Jessie Oonark - Wallhangings
Gallery One
Toronto, Ontario
November - December 1981 Jessie Oonark, R.C.A. - Drawings
Inuit Gallery of Vancouver
Vancouver, British Columbia
September 1983 Drawings by Oonark of Baker Lake c. 1965-1978
The Innuit Gallery
Toronto, Ontario
(illustrated brochure)
October - November 1983 Jessie Oonark R.C.A. - Wallhangings and Selected
Prints
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
January - March 1984 Jessie Oonark - A Retrospective
Raven Gallery
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
(illustrated catalogue)
November 1986 Jessie Oonark - R.C.A., O.C. Retrospective
1970-1985 Prints Drawings and Wallhangings
The Upstairs Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(illustrated brochure)
November 1986 - March 1988 Jessie Oonark: A Retrospective
Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg, Manitoba
(tour)
(illustrated catalogue)
March 1991 Jessie Oonark Retrospective
The Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art
Toronto, Ontario
February - October 1993 Jessie Oonark: Selected Works from the Permanent
Collection
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
COLLECTIONS: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
American National Insurance Company, U.S.A.
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.
Amway Environmental Foundation Collection, Ada, Michigan, U.S.A.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Art Gallery of York University, Downsview, Ontario
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Catholic Conference Art Collection, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Guild of Crafts Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec
Churchill Community Centre, Churchill, Manitoba
Clifford E. Lee Collection, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Collection of His Holiness John Paul II, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Collection of the Supreme Patriarch of All Armenia, His Holiness, Catholicos Vazken I
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S.A.
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
Klamer Family Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick
Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Shell Canada Collection, Calgary, Alberta
Simon Fraser Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
HONOURS, ACHIEVEMENTS and EVENTS:
1965 Participated in an experimental graphics workshop in Baker Lake (uncatalogued
and unpublished)
1969 Large applique wallhanging originally presented to the N.W.T. Legislative
Assembly, now a permanent feature of the Assembly's Chamber in Yellowknife.
1971 Received a travel grant from the Canadian Council 1972 Illustrated "I Breathed A New Song", an anthology of Inuit Poetry edited by
Richard Lewis.
1973 Commissioned to make a wallhanging for the lobby of the National Art Centre.
Ottawa; Oonark present for the unveiling.
1973 A wallhanging made by Oonark was presented to H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth on
behalf of the Inuit of the Northwest Territories.
1974 Received the award for the best in the show for her embroidery and appliqued
wallhanging in the exhibition " Crafts from Arctic Canada".
1975 Elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. 1976 In Ottawa to attend the presentation of the Sunday Missal of the Roman
Catholic Church which contains an illustration by Oonark. Missal published
by the Canadian Catholic Council of Bishops.
1976 Created an orginal design for first day cover and cachet print (edition of
1,000) for a United Nations stamp honouring the Habitat conferance in
Vancouver; travelled to New York and Autographed covers. Original drawing
purchased by National Museum of Civilazation, Ottawa
1976 UN Cachet Print Reproduction Commission, WFUNA, New York, 1976. 1977 Travelled to Charlottetown, P.E.I. to attend a conferance of the Canadian
Crafts Council during which Oonark was made an Honorary member.
1978 Travelled to Toronto to attend the opening of a wallhanging exhibition at the
Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art.
1984 Recipient of a Women's Caucus for Art Award in Toronto 1984 Named an Officer of the Order of Canada 1984 Oonark's 1983 print "Giver of Life" was presented to his Holiness John Paul II
at an Outdoor Papal Mass in Ottawa.
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IM SCHATTEN DER SONNE: Zeitgenoessische Kunst der Indianer und
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of the Indians and Eskimos in Canada]. Stuttgart: Edition
Cantz. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1988.
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UNE EXPOSITION D'ART GRAPHIQUE INUIT AU MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS.
Le Devoir, July 29, 1980.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
CANADA MIKROKOSMA: An Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian
Tapestries by Twenty-two Canadian Artists. Kingston: Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, 1982.
Arngna'naaq, Ruby
PRINTMAKER FOLLOWS MOTHER'S STEPS TO FAME. Ottawa Citizen,
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Art Gallery of Ontario
THE PEOPLE WITHIN = LES GENS DE L'INTERIEUR. Toronto: Art
Gallery of Ontario, 1976.
Barz, Sandra B.
JESSIE OONARK AT U.N. New York, N.Y. : Arts and Culture of the
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the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary/ Garland, 1995.
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Blodgett, Jean
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Blodgett, Jean
ESKIMO NARRATIVE. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1979.
Blodgett, Jean
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