The Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College will continue its tradition of exhibiting the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection October 13 through December 1, 2013 with the sale of prints beginning Friday, October 18 at 6 PM reception that is free and open to the public.
At the reception there will be a printmaking demonstration in which guests will be invited to learn more about the print process from the Dennos Museum Center docents. They will be able to pull a print from an original canceled Dorset print stone and make a print from a block that they design, cut and print.
The Dennos Museum Center has been chosen to be the official US site for the 2013 collection. Sales will be conducted by a lottery, since many of the prints will be in high demand. Interested buyers may receive a catalogue, price list and lottery information by calling the museum store 231- 995-1586. The prints can be viewed by visiting the Dennos Museum Center web site www.dennosmuseum.org
Sadly, this year marked the death of Kenojuak Ashevak, an icon of Inuit art and a mainstay of the annual collection for over 50 years. There are seven prints by this remarkable woman in this year’s collection. Kenojuak signed two of them the remaining five are signed posthumously by her daughter Silaqqi Ashevak.
In 1960, Bernard Rink, Director of the Osterlin Library at NMC, was fortunate to become the Michigan distributor for the first release of prints from Cape Dorset in 1960. From then on the Cape Dorset Print release has been hosted by the College and since 1991 by the Museum. Through this annual sale the proceeds have been used to acquire Inuit prints along with the simultaneous acquisition Inuit of sculpture. Now noted as one of the most historically complete collections of Inuit art in United States, with over 1,500 works in the collection, the Dennos Museum Center continues the tradition of collecting Inuit prints by hosting the Cape Dorset Annual Graphics Collection. Proceeds from the sale will be used to purchase new work for the Dennos Museum Inuit Collection.
The Dennos Museum Center is open daily 10 AM to 5 PM, Thursday’s until 8 PM and Sundays 1-5 PM. Admission is $6.00 adults, $4.00 for children and free to museum members. For more information on the Museum and its programs, go to www.dennosmuseum.org or call 231-995-1055. The Dennos Museum Center is located at 1410 College Dr., Traverse City, MI 49686, at the entrance to the campus of Northwestern Michigan College.
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