Manasie Akpaliapik

Manasie Akpaliapik
Born1955 (age 68–69)
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 subsequently to Toronto.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Manasie Akpaliapik". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b "AKPALIAPIK, Manasie (1955)". Dictionnaire historique de la sculpture québécoise au XXe siècle. Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  3. ^ a b c d "Manasie Akpaliapik". Petroglyphs to Pixels. Retrieved 2023-10-08.