Arts and Crafts: Women and Their Work

Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Dehcho Region, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Kivalliq Region, Kitikmeot, Nunavut

Tags: social sciences, traditional art, women, traditional activities

Principal Investigator: Fogwill, Lynn (1)
Licence Number: 8153
Organization: Lynn Fogwill Consulting Services
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Issued: Jan 01, 1988
Project Team: Cheryl Fennel

Objective(s): to investigate and analyse arts and crafts activities in the NWT as they involve and affect women; to conduct interviews with women about their current situation, their problems and what changes they would like to make,

Project Description: Ms. Lynn Fogwill conducted interviews with women in the seven communities, as well as consulted with GNWT Department of Economic Development representatives, crafts co-ops, crafts societies, aborginal women's associations and the NWT Advisory Council on the Status of Women to analyse arts and crafts activities as they affect women. They were asked about their current situation, their problems,and what changes they wanted.