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SIUPIK, Maggie
- Born
- near Puvirnituq, Quebec, 1916
- Died
- Purvinituq, Quebec?, 1984
- Biography synopsis
- Siupik worked for the Povungnituk Co-operative as an artist, drawing images to be made into prints. She married Juanisialuk who was a printmaker, and she was the mother of Thomassie Irqumia, a stencil-maker. Siupik's work is distinctive in her use of negative space to define various features of her human and animal subjects. Her prints can now be found at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. Her work was included in two Povungnituk Print Collections - 1965 and 1966 - as well as various exhibits in Canada during the 1980s.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Printmaking
- File & Archive locations
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Barz, Sandra. Inuit Artists Print Workbook New York: Arts & Culture of the North, 1990
- Blodgett, Jean. Grasp Tight the Old Ways: Selections From the Klamer Family Collection of Inuit Art Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1983
- Craig, Mary M., ed. 1984 Povungnituk print collection / Collection de gravures de Povungnituk Ottawa: La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau-Québec, 1984
- Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec. Povungnituk Annual Print Collection / Collection de gravures Quebec: Fédération de coopératives du Nouveau-Québec, 1966
- Furneaux, Patrick & Rosshandler, Leo. Arts of the Eskimos: Prints Montreal: Signum Press and Oxford University Press, 1974
- Myers, Marybelle Mitchell. Things Made by Inuit Québec: Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau Québec, 1980
- Roch, Ernst ed. Arts of the Eskimo: Prints Montreal: Signum Press, 1974
- Société coopérative de Povungnituk. Povungnituk Québec: Société coopérative de Povungnituk, 1965