Kenojuak Ashevak, a Canadian artist and printmaker, is regarded as one of the most notable pioneers of modern Inuit art
She was born in Ikirasaq, an Inuit camp, at the southern coast of Baffin Island
Her father was a hunter, fur trader, and respected shaman. When she was only six years old, he was assassinated by Christian converts.
She was arranged to marry a local hunter, but was reluctant, and even playfully threw pebbles at him when he approached her
She was one of the first Inuit women in Cape Dorset to begin drawing, and she went on to create the first Inuit stained glass window for the John Bell Chapel in Ontario
She worked in graphite, colored pencils, poster paints, watercolor, and acrylics as well as creating etchings and carvings from soapstone
Shout out to mentally ill people who dropped out of school
– shout out to the kids who were “so bright” and ‘heading somewhere” and had to drop out because school was too much to handle along with mental illness
– shout out to the kids who struggled to get where they got before they dropped out
– shout out to the kids who tried and tried and tried and still couldn’t finish
you aren’t unintelligent because you dropped out of school, you aren’t a delinquent or a bad person because you dropped out of school, just because you did what you had to doesn’t make you a bad person
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