Uqqurmiut Art Centre is an Inuit arts facility conceived and constructed more than ten years ago to serve the Inuit artists and community of Pangnirtung. The Centre provides an effective way to present Inuit fine art and fine craft to southern markets, and this website is an extension of that idea. With few jobs in the area the centre helps a much needed market for Inuit Art.

Visitors to this website will, of course, be familiar with Inuit art. Sometimes still referred to as Eskimo art, this world-famous genre is known for its striking soapstone sculpture (formerly known as Eskimo carvings), featuring images of polar bears, seals, walruses, drum dancers, shamans and so on. Inuit art is not only known for its soapstone sculpture, but also for its distinctive fine art prints, drawings and hand crafts, the likes of which are displayed in art galleries all around the world. The community of Pangnirtung is home to its fair share of internationally recognized Inuit carvers, graphic artists, printmakers, tapestry weavers, and craftspeople. This website is intended to serve as a virtual art gallery or museum, where visitors can view and buy authentic Inuit art from these well-known Pangnirtung artists, while learning more about the Inuit from the Cumberland Sound area and elsewhere in the Arctic Circumpolar Region.

Ultimately, the Uqqurmiut Centre is the chief vehicle through which the Uqqurmiut (the people of the leeside) carry out their mission to promote and preserve their local culture, and to foster the continued development of the artistic heritage of their community. In this way, the presence of Uqqurmiut Centre helps to preserve the fragile artistic record of the culture and traditions of the Inuit of the Cumberland Sound region.

Please feel free to have a look at their website www.uqqurmiut.com.