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AQ-NWP100
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definition: Short Title: AQ-NWP100 Proposal URL: http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/proposal-details.php?id=338 The objective of the Arctic Quest project is to promote an increased interest and understanding of the arctic polar region internationally through the sharing of art of the 25 artists involved in the project between the North and South, from East to West in Canada and beyond. The goals of the Arctic Quest project are to form new connections with international artists and to cultivate vital cultural links between southern Canada's artistic community and Inuit artists at both professional and student levels, and to expose the resulting body of art to the Polar region communities and the international public to increase appreciation and awareness and stimulate interest in the fragile Polar region. For the first phase of the project 25 artists from Canada and the United will begin in 2006 with an Arctic voyage celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage by Roald Amundsen. They will follow in the footsteps of famous explorers and great artists that have inspired them. They will paint the landscape, people, flora and fauna and weather as they interpret it. This voyage in Canadian, Greenland (Danish) and International waters, will retrace some of the early explorers and artists original routes, stopping periodically to sketch, paint and photograph what they see. After 12 days at sea, the group will return to their studios and record and develop their experiences in paint. During the second phase of the project the artists will share their artistic interpretations in an extensive series of exhibitions throughout 2007 and 2008, planned to coincide with International Circumpolar Year. The Arctic Quest Exhibition is planned to contain artwork of early explorers, representatives of the Group of Seven (Harris, Varley, and A.Y. Jackson), Doris McCarthy and Maurice Haycock (two artists inspired by the Group of Seven) as well as t…
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