NWT Arts

Kunuuyang (Tamara) Voudrach is an Inuvialuit/Gwich'in and Metis/Cree multi-media artist from Inuvik, NT, living and working in her traditional territory in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. She is dedicated to learn as many traditional and family patterns as she can, so that she can continue to carry on the traditional of sewing for the children in her family, and to make sure her loved ones have the warm clothing they need to travel on the land. She currently works with beads, caribou fur tufting, seal crafts, mitt making, and both fancy wear and functional outerwear. She learned from and extends her gratitude to her iluhautrit, her teachers, like Donna Johns, Brian Nungki Rogers, Lillian Elias, Lena Kotokak, and Clara Day, and her friends and family, Lila Voudrach, Amie Charlie and Bambi Amos. Her next challenge will be to practice creating uluit and knives, as her late father Rory Qakuq Voudrach (RKV Blades) taught her before he passed on. Sewing is a living practice that nourishes our spirit.

Tamara also works full-time in language and cultural revitalization through media arts, in her role as Executive Director of the Inuvialuit Communications Society.