Manasie akpaliapik biography template

          Born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, Manasie Akpaliapik settled with his family in Arctic Bay in He first learned to carve by watching.

        1. Born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, Manasie Akpaliapik settled with his family in Arctic Bay in He first learned to carve by watching.
        2. Manasie Akpaliapik was born in into a small community of seal hunters.
        3. Born in in a hunting camp near Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay), NU, Manasie Akpaliapik is a prominent artist currently based between Montreal, QC and Ottawa.
        4. An important Canadian sculptor, Manasie Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on northern Baffin Island, North West Territories (now Nunavut).
        5. While Manasie Akpaliapik's work reflects Inuit history and traditions, it also touches on his own personal story, with a profoundly human.

          6. Born in in a hunting camp near Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay), NU, Manasie Akpaliapik is a prominent artist currently based between Montreal, QC and Ottawa....

          Manasie Akpaliapik

          Canadian Inuk sculptor (born 1955)

          Manasie Akpaliapik

          Born1955 (age 69–70)
          NationalityCanadian Inuit
          Known forScultpure (whalebone, ivory, stone)
          Websitemanasie.com

          Manasie Akpaliapik (born 1955) is a Canadian Inuk sculptor.[1][2]

          Akpaliapik was born in a hunting camp on Baffin Island, Nunavut and moved with his family to Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay) in 1967.[2] Though his parents were sculptors, he learned to carve at age ten by observing his grandparents.[1]

          At age 12 he was sent to residential school in Iqaluit where his language and culture were suppressed.[1][3] Akpaliapik left residential school at 16 years old.[1][3]

          Akpaliapik married a woman named Noodloo and returned to Arctic Bay with his family.[1][3] His wife and their two children were killed in a fire in 1980, after which Akpaliapik moved to Montreal and