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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 19 May 1976, p. 27

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Holiday Store Hours Saturday May 22nd 9 am â€" 9pm Sunday May 23rd 12 noon â€" 6 pm Monday May 24th 12 noon â€" 6 pm PARKDALE PHARMACY Parkdale Plaza Albert at Hazel Open 7 days a week C ~ L4 â€"~ 884â€"3860 FIRST AID L SPECIAL GUEST : e Rev. Howard Kerr, Former Pastor & Missionary to Argentina This Week Wednesday May 19 > TOP!IC: is there a Spiritual Iongnl : in our time? 621 KING WEST, KITCHENER â€" 745â€"9495 arcHiIe DURANT JOIN HIM EVERY SECOND WEEK ON . ...... â€" _ WEDNESDAYS â€"From 10 to 11 P.M. RATZâ€"BECHTEL FUNERAL HOME & CHAPEH * Open Line Style , Phone 579â€"1212 REPEATED THURSDAYS From 6 to 7 P.M. A NEW TV PROGRAM. â€"WITH ANSWERS FOR YOU GRAND RIVER CABLE TVâ€"12 Convenient Parking, entering Wellingion or King Street YOUR HOST ~_â€"PASTOR The first Canadian showâ€" ing: of the Baker Lake Esâ€" kimo stoneâ€"cut prints and carvings was held Friday at the Inukshuk Gallery, 25 Young St. E., Watérloo. The 1976 collection of 27 prints features the techniâ€" ques of stoneâ€"cut, silkscreen, stencil and stonecut+ Many of the prints are available in limited quantities, under 40 made, and therefore have an increased value. The opening Friday eveâ€" ning featured guests from the Baker Lake area as well as Mary Robertson, Direeâ€" tor of Fine Arts at Canadian Arctic Producers, Ottawa. From Baker Lake came Margaret Tullik, a printer in the Sanavik Cooperative and her translator Percy Tutannuag. ‘‘We have been in assoâ€" ciation with Percy over the past year because he "has been a management traince at Canadian Arctic Producâ€" ers. Percy is represented in year‘s print collection HARRY HUEHN Service worthy confidence â€" with the print ‘Inukshuk‘. versation with Percy, we asked why there were only 16 copies of the print. Someone jokingly remarked, Percyâ€"didn‘t stay around long enough to finish!" said Erla Socha, of the Inukâ€" shuk Gallery. o Margaret Tullik of Baker Lake has had prints in colâ€" lections in both 1972 and 1974. She worked with anâ€" other Eskimo artist, Anguâ€" hallug," on ‘"The Return" for the 1976 display. Marâ€" garet is married to Michael Amarook who at one time was the manager of the Sanavik Cooperative. Mary Robertson is the Director of Fine Arts at Canadian â€" Arctic Producâ€" ers. She has had many years of gallery experience in Otâ€" tawa where she and her husâ€" band John own Robertson Galleries. They were pioâ€" neers in Inuit Art collectâ€" ing and have been involved with print distribution since it began. The opening also featurâ€" ed a tapeâ€"slide presentaâ€" tion made by John Robertâ€" son and Jack Butler. Other interesting items at the display were autographed copies of the Baker Lake catalogue. Seventyâ€"f i v e copies . were autographed by the artists who will reâ€" ceive all the money from the sale of the catalogues for their cooperative. A special item at the openâ€" ing was the wallhangings by Oonark of Baker Lake. Jesâ€" sie Oonark is best known for these hangings which depict life in the north. The prints will be on disâ€" play at the gallery for the next couple of weeks.

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