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Kenojuak Ashevak
Kenojuak Ashevak (born October 3, 1927) is a Canadian Inuit artist.
Honours
- In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1982.
- In 1970 Canada Post placed her 1960 print Enchanted Owl on a stamp to commemorate the centennial of the Northwest Territories.
- In 1974 she was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts .
- In 1980 Canada Post uses her 1961 print Return of the Sun on a seventeen cent as part of its Inuit stamp series.
- In 1991 she received an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University.
- In 1992 she was awarded an honorary doctorate the University of Toronto.
- In 1993 Canada Post featured the 1969 drawing The Owl for its Masterpieces of Canadian Art series.
- She was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2001.
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