Graduation Day!

Congratulations to the 2010 grads of the NAC Jewellery and Metalwork Program!
Patrick Aula, Myles Gauthier, Kaajuk Kabalik, Joe Macpa and Silas Qulaut received their first year certificates!

On behalf of the instructors, Beata, Kirk, Gyu and Erin, we would like to congratulate all of you for a successful and fun year! We are very proud of everything you all have accomplished and we look forward to seeing you in the fall!

Have a great summer!

The Last Edition

For the last 2 weeks of class, the lovely Gyu has returned, this time to teach us the art of Printmaking. We have been working on linocut, woodcut and etching, making limited edition prints. Printmaking has been a popluar method of art making in the Inuit culture since the 1950's. In many printshops throughout Nunavut, the work is divided between: the Artists, who draw the original image; the Carvers, who carve the image into stone or lino; and the Printers, who ink the plates and make the final prints. In our case, we have doing all three steps in the process and have gotten some great results. A few of the prints will be entered in the BMO 1st Art competition, which is an annual nation wide-art competetion for post-secondary students in every privince and territory.

Open House

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Open House Show and Sale. It was a great success! We had the metalshop open for demonstrations and a station set up for visitors to try their hand at some metalwork. We were all excited to get the chance to show off our skills and sell our work. The crowds were nonstop and gave us really great feed back.

Check out a few pictures from the sale: