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. Saucier, Céline; Kedl, Eugen (1988). Image inuit du Nouveau-Québec. Fides. ISBN 9782762114355.
  2. Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013-12-19). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 9781135638894.
  3. Issenman, Betty Kobayashi (2011-11-01). Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing. UBC Press. 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. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  13. "Nunavik Art Alive - Artist Profiles - Lucy Meeko". art.avataq.qc.ca.
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