Napachie Pootoogook
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Napachie Pootoogook was a Canadian Inuk graphic artist.
Napatchie Pootoogook in 1980
The West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, also known as the Kinngait Co-operative, is an Inuit co-operative in Kinngait, Nunavut best known for its activities in buying, producing and selling Inuit artworks
Napachie Pootoogook
…mother's encouragement. Like many Inuit artists, she brought her drawings to the Cape Dorset-based West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (now known as the Kinngait Co-operative), an institution that would purchase artworks and offered art classes. Pootoogook sold her first drawings to James Archibald Houston for $20 when she…
The print shop in September 1960.