Lucy Meeko

Lucy Meeko (1929-2004) was an Inuit artist known for her multidisciplinary work in sculpture,[1] printmaking,[2] basketry and sewing.[3][4] Meeko was born in Kuujjuaraapik, Quebec.[5] Her career as a sculptor began in the 1950s; in the 1970s, together with her husband Noah, she created engravings for the Kuujjuarapic Cooperative.[5]

Meeko's work was featured in Keeping our Stories Alive: The Sculpture of Canada's Inuit along with the work of Ovilu Tunnillie and Uriash Puqiqnak.[6][5]

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada,[7] the Winnipeg Art Gallery,[8] the Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec,[9] the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art[10] and the McCord Museum, Montreal.[11]

Meeko died in 2004 from smoke inhalation, while attempting to rescue her husband Noah from a house fire in Kuujjuaraapik.[12][13]

References
  1. Image inuit du Nouveau-Québec. 1988. ISBN 9782762114355.
  2. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013-12-19). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. ISBN 9781135638894.
  3. Issenman, Betty Kobayashi (2011-11-01). Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing. ISBN 9780774841894.
  4. "MEEKO, Lucy (1929–2004)".
  5. "MEEKO, Lucy (1929–2004)". Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siècle.
  6. Withers, Denise (writer & director) (1993), Keeping our Stories Alive: The Sculpture of Canada's Inuit, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
  7. "Lucy Meeko". Archived from the original on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
  8. "Art Search | Winnipeg Art Gallery".
  9. "BAnQ numérique".
  10. "A Frightened Man". art.nelson-atkins.org.
  11. "ME988.127.1 | Amauti | McCord Museum".
  12. News, Nunatsiaq (8 January 2005). "Passings". Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
  13. "Nunavik Art Alive - Artist Profiles - Lucy Meeko". art.avataq.qc.ca.
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