Alice Sakitnak Akammak (born 1940 in Nunavut) is an Inuk artist. She specializes in Arviat amautiq beaded figures, in the tradition of Eva Talooki.
Her daughter, Mary Tutsiutok (1972 - ) is also a stone carver and artist.
Exhibitions 1992:Women of the North: An Exhibition of Art by Inuit Women of the Canadian Arctic, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver 1993: The Treasured Monument, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver 2015: Dressing It Up: Beadwork in Northern Communities, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
Collections Her work is included in the collections of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Canadian Museum of History, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Art Gallery of Guelph and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
Akammak also has work in stone, fibers, skin and beads in the collection of the University of Saskatchewan, and a work in carved stone and glass beads in the collection of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College.
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