An Aboriginal Presence

An Aboriginal Presence

Germaine Arnaktauyok

Germaine Arnaktauyok left her family camp near Igloolik at age nine to attend residential school. She studied at the University of Manitoba School of Art and Algonquin College in Ottawa.

After working as a book illustrator, she turned to etching. She designed the reverse image on the 1999 Canadian two-dollar coin, which celebrates the creation of Nunavut Territory.

"The acid has a personality of its own, and things come out slightly different from what you expected."

Germaine Arnaktauyok