Arts & Crafts
The arts & crafts sector is a key contributor to our economy in Nunavut. Annual sales are estimated to be in excess of $30 million, and this will grow – to $50 million by the year 2013.
The 2004-05 Nunavut Household Survey reports that 30 per cent of respondents were involved in the production of arts and crafts in 2003.
What began just fifty years ago as an experiment in the introduction of the cash economy to people living on the remote coast of Hudson Bay, today supports a multi-million dollar cultural industry, with production studios in Taloyoak, Baker Lake, Arviat, Iqaluit, Cape Dorset, and Pangnirtung, an export network spanning the globe, and an international reputation for excellence and innovation in production that is the foundation for Nunavut’s economic progress.
