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Faces with Three Seals
Faces with Three Seals
In 1963, after the North Rankin Nickel Mine closed its operations in Rankin Inlet, the federal government hired ceramicist Claude Grenier to organize an arts and crafts program. Grenier experimented with mixtures of local and imported clays; by 1964–65 more than a dozen artists, some of whom were also stone sculptors, were creating sculptural ceramics. The project closed in 1977 but was revived by Jim Shirley in the late 1980s. Pie Kukshout produced some of the most imaginative and bizarre compositions—works that pushed the boundaries of Inuit three-dimensional art.
