Art spotlight: Annual Innuit Premiere

Beginning Thursday: For the past 30 years Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais, Minn., has championed art of the Arctic regions, especially the Inuit prints and carvings that are a distinctive expression of traditional culture and legends. The gallery's 10th Annual Inuit Premiere next weekend will include demonstrations of soapstone carving by Inuit master Ohito Ashoona and talks by carver Karen Olanna, whose abstract forms emerge from caribou antler, walrus tusk, whalebone and fossilized woolly mammoth tusks. Events include film screenings, carving classes and demonstrations of traditional Inuit throat singing by Lydia Etok and Nina Segalowitz. Ron Apangalook of Gambell, Alaska, on St. Lawrence Island, carved the "Bowhead Whale & Calf" shown here from fossilized whalebone and Pacific walrus tusk. (Events and demonstrations Thu.-March 15, free. Show ends March 31, free. Sivertson Gallery, 14 W. Wisconsin St., Grand Marais. 1-888-880-4369 or www.sivertson.com.) MARY ABBE