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Alice Sakitnak Akammak
Born 1940 (age 83–84)
Nunavut
Known for stone carving, bead work

Alice Sakitnak Akammak (born 1940 in Nunavut) is an Inuit artist.

Exhibitions

  • 1992 Women of the North: An Exhibition of art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver
  • 1993 The Treasured Monument, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2015 Dressing It Up: Beadwork in Northern Communities, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

Collections

Her work is included in the collections of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of History, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Art Gallery of Guelph and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Akammak also has work in stone, fibers, skin and beads in the collection of the University of Saskatchewan, and a work in carved stone and glass beads in the collection of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College.

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