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The Exchange District’s Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art centre hosted the opening of the exhibition Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut on Sept. 8.

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The Exchange District’s Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art centre hosted the opening of the exhibition Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut on Sept. 8.

The unconventional Inuit art show, which runs until Oct. 14, features works ranging from photography, drawings and sculpture to sealskin stilettos and the metamorphosis of painted sea-ice walls captured on time-lapse video.

For more information, visit urbanshaman.org.

From left: Urban Shaman gallery director Daina Warren, Dave McLeod, CEO of NCI-FM, and Floe Edge artistic director Stefan St-Laurent. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
From left: Urban Shaman gallery director Daina Warren, Dave McLeod, CEO of NCI-FM, and Floe Edge artistic director Stefan St-Laurent. (Photo: Urban Shaman)

 

Opening night gallery-goers listen to remarks from Stefan St-Laurent, artistic director, at the opening. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Opening night gallery-goers listen to remarks from Stefan St-Laurent, artistic director, at the opening. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Manitoba Arts Council CEO Akoulina Connell admires a sealskin work by Nicole Camphaug. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Manitoba Arts Council CEO Akoulina Connell admires a sealskin work by Nicole Camphaug. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Charlene Brown and Ken Warkentin. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Charlene Brown and Ken Warkentin. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Attendees check out artist Mona Nestor’s realistic, traditonally-clad figure, Hunter with Kakivak. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Attendees check out artist Mona Nestor’s realistic, traditonally-clad figure, Hunter with Kakivak. (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Attendees view works by 19 artists at the opening of the Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut . (Photo: Urban Shaman)
Attendees view works by 19 artists at the opening of the Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut . (Photo: Urban Shaman)

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