It’s finally home’: Stone used to make Helen Kalvak prints returns to Ulukhaktok, N.W.T. – CBC

Apr 10, 2026

Community will be able to see stone at upcoming meeting

A print block made decades ago to create copies of Inuk artist Helen Kalvak’s work The Power of the Amulets, is back and on display in the N.W.T. community it originated from.

The carved stone belongs to the Ulukhaktok Inuit Co-op and had been on loan to Mississauga, Ont.-based Canadian Arctic Producers.

Helen Kalvak School in Ulukhaktok has been building a display of its namesake’s work and school principal Nicolas Kopot asked the co-op last spring for the stone to be brought back to the community so it could be part of that exhibit.

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