TANYA TAGAQ is a Canadian (Inuk) throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuutiaq), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. She is an author, improvisational performer, avant-garde composer, and experimental recording artist who won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for her album Animism, a work that disrupted the music world in Canada and beyond with its powerfully original vision. Tanya's most recent album Retribution was released in fall 2016. Her first book for adults, Split Tooth has received numerous accolades and awards. Tanya's first picture book, It Bears Repeating, will publish in fall 2024.
QAVAVAU MANUMIE was born in Brandon, Manitoba. He returned to Kinngait, Nunavut, as a very young child and now lives there with his son and grandchildren. In 1978, Qavavau began his career as an artist by packing and shipping carvings, and he is now a Master Stonecut Printmaker at Kinngait Studios. His art is idiosyncratic and often amusing in its depictions of Inuit legends and mythology, Arctic wildlife and contemporary aspects of Inuit life.
