Jessie Oonark, The Shaman Teaches the Woman Magic

Jessie (Una) Oonark was born near Back River, Nunavut. Oonark lived the first fifty years of her life in camps throughout the region. Oonark first began making drawings in the 1950s after settling in Qamani'tuaq (Baker Lake), NU with her children. Her works quickly caught the attention of members of both the Qamani'tuaq and Kinngait (Cape Dorset) art communities. A few short years after beginning her artistic career, several of Oonark’s drawings were included in the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collections of 1960 and 1961. Oonark was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1975 and was inducted as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1984.

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