Holman

Agnes Nanogak Goose and her family settled in Holman when she was fourteen years old. Through her father, who was from Nome, Alaska, and her mother, a Mackenzie Delta Inuit, ...

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Elsie Klengenberg was one of the first artists to learn and develop the stenciling technique that is used to great effect in Holman today. She is a member of a ...

Louie Nigiyok began working as a printmaker for the print shop in 1981, at the same time as his mother, Mabel Nigiyok. He continues today as one of the foremost ...

Mabel Nigiyok began learning stencil printmaking in the Holman printshop in 1981, and her work was published the following year. She has since become one of its most productive artists ...

Emerak’s first drawing was of solely a bow and arrow; Tardy encouraged him to draw more, so his next drawing was of the same bow and arrow with a very ...

Mary K. Okheena has worked for the Holman print shop since 1977, longer than any other artist or printer currently working. To date, 74 of her drawings have been made ...

Peter started as a carver and started working in graphics in the 1960s. His works often depict aspects of traditional life, such as shown in "Eating Dry Fish," which we ...

Peter Malgokak was born in the Berkeley Point area, at the northernmost camp on west Victoria Island. He is the son of Malgokak and Alikamik. His brother, Joseph Kitekudlak, is ...

Peter Palvik grew up in the Minto Inlet area. His family moved into Holman in the mid-1960s when he was old enough to go to school. His father, Albert Palvik, ...

Rex Goose is best known as a carver, but he has been active in the graphic arts at Holman since 1978. He is from a family of artists. His father, ...

Susie Malgokak grew up in the Minto Inlet area. At the age of six, Malgokak, her sister, and cousin were taken by airplane to attend boarding school in Inuvik. She ...

One of very few Inuit Holman artists who does woodcuts, Goose chooses whimsical subjects, such as a traveler carried through the sky by geese.