Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok

Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok (1934–2012) was born at Nunalla in northern Manitoba and was a member of the Ihalmiut (“people from beyond”) who lived near and around Ennadai Lake. She later settled in the coastal community of Arviat, and began making stone sculptures in the mid 1960s. This marked the beginning of a prolific career lasting more than four decades. In 1992, she was one of two Inuit artists featured in Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives in Canadian Art, a landmark exhibition organized by the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec. Her first solo exhibition was held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2011, and her work can be found in public collections such as UBC’s Museum of Anthropology, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.