Ella Alk Inuk

Atsusi! I realized I forgot to post my reception speaking. We had a fabulous time! You can view on my YouTube channel (@ellan.alkiewicz3825) at   https://youtu.be/rCJKiqONMc8?feature=shared  Just fast forward a minute in. (I need to learn how to edit videos; it's on my to-do list.) Most of my paintings are for sale. Contact me here or by email or on Instagram. Photo by Chris Alkiewicz, Dec. 6, 2023.  Life is good and better with paint. 

After busy days and painting nights, I realized I didn't have a link for you to sign up for my newsletters.  Sign up for my newsletter here  I welcome feedback, comments, requests. I do accept commissions and have led some workshops, too (Mt. Holyoke College,  Campus School of Smith College among others).  I look forward to a great show in December. Enjoy my 3" x 3" sticker called Buggie :) 

Save the date and join us at the Rockridge Retirement Community in Northampton, Mass. It's across from the Mass. State Police Barracks on Route 10 in Northampton. Pieces will be shown in the hallway and dining room. Most of my original acrylic paintings will be for sale. I accept Venmo and cash.  This collection has some new pieces that I am thrilled to show.  Contact me at ellaalkinuk (@) gmail (dot) com for questions or to receive the full inventory. My Instagram @ella_alk has recent photos too.  It's an exciting time of year with the different holidays with my own family celebrations. I am most grateful for this opportunity.  Nakummesuak for reading and feel free to share with a friend or leave a comment. 

Good afternoon,  Hope this finds you well. Native American Heritage Month is busy for us Indigenous folx here in the northeast. Somehow it's already Nov. 16th!  I am happy our awesome panel from Nov. 5th at the Wistariahurst Museum was recorded and you can watch it at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beg8z3aOyR8 . We had a good time and I'm grateful I joined the panel.  Please join me and subscribe to Holyoke Media! Run by fantastic people and I need to figure out how to link this recording to my YouTube page @ellan.alkiewicz3825  Feel free to follow me there too.  Other news, I'll have a table at the Intertribal Social at UMass Amherst this Saturday night.  I accept Venmo and cash. I'm bringing a mix of acrylic paintings and some digital prints.  My art is also sold at the Fine Arts America site and can be found at  https://fineartamerica.com/art/ella+nathanael+alkiewicz I like the variety of images. What's great about the site is you can order what you like. A pr

                                                            Digital art by Ella N. Alkiewicz, (C) 2023 It's a great day for the Rag Shag parade and for too much Halloween candy.  Today is the last day for my show at the Northampton Senior Center Mary's Bistro. It was an awesome first solo show and privilege to shine in my hometown. The reception was well attended and fun to be with others. The snacks were yummy, too. The video my husband took can be found on my YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYSx_hqSLc  with four other videos.  I submitted another application and sold one of my paintings! I'm thrilled on both.  There's a super gathering this Sunday, Nov. 5th from 11 AM to 3 PM. Click here  for more info. Here's more information.  Image from their Instagram page @wistariahurst It will be a great day to speak and vend at the Wistariahurst Museum with my frens. I hope you will join us. Park along the street and masks are optional while I will wear o

Good afternoon, I hope this finds you well. Yesterday's artist reception was wonderful and I'm thrilled so many people came out.  Big thank you to the Northampton Senior Center for the space and the yummy food with coffee. I am enjoying the leftovers, too. My sweet husband took the video that can be found on my YouTube channel @ellan.alkiewicz3825 The video is 24 minutes long and can be found here https://youtu.be/PKYSx_hqSLc?feature=shared  I wrote up a handout that says:  Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz, MFA is a self-taught artist and poet while university trained in teaching and writing. She works in her studio on Main St., married over a decade, and a resident of Northampton while originally from Labrador, Canada. Ella is a dual citizen and a beneficiary of Nunatsiavut Government.    Her collection of acrylic paintings is called  Homeland Beauties for Yous . This is her first solo art exhibition. She is thrilled to show at Mary’s Bistro in the Northampton Senior Center during th

I'm thrilled and hope you can make the reception.  Message me for more info.   

 With the world being worldly, I've missed being on here. I have not been bored.  I hope all of you are well and healthy. Please be safe and get the latest booster since COVID is climbing back.  I have worked tremendously hard this past summer while stuck in the air conditioning.  Look here bit.ly/3RhmSwn and Happy Shopping! This is one of my prints for sale.    I wrote blurbs for each piece. Feel free me back, life is good and better with art.

Atsusi/Greetings,  I hope this finds you well. I ask you Save the Date for Thursday, July 13th/Tonistaag, Julai 13th from 6 to 8 p.m. EST. [Note: I'll be over after 7 p.m. since I have my Intermediate Inuttut class.] This link here , we, awesome beautiful talented BIPOC artists will be available during the Easthampton City Arts Artwalk at 50 Arrow Gallery! It is an honour to be invited and show one of my Flat Files with my friends.  Look for these colours:  When you visit 50 Arrow Gallery's Instagram page, here , you'll see Feathered Fren  is among them. Their TikTok page has a really cool post, too. It's fun to say, I'm in there!  Feathered Fren is the first digital print at 15 by 15 inches on Lyve Canvas. I stretched it and added the hardware. You can see pingasut/three photos on my Instagram page, @ella_alk, from Fraitaag, Juni 30/Friday, June 30th.    When I made this image, in Jan. 2023, it became the beginning of my Celebrate Inuit Lives collection for 20

I'll pay people back that donated. Thank you for the support.  I will show my work in other spaces and will send out notice then. I created the three above digital images. Don't forget I take commissions too.  I am grateful. Be well.       

 Ullaasiak or Ullukut,  I haven't been posting lately and apologize. June is a busy month and lots going on.  Happy P R I D E too!  I created a stellar painting for my Angutik's bday called Birthday Blue . He loves it and hung it up in his office. I'm quite proud and received many compliments on it.  I painted images for my niece's wedding and presented them to our relatives. (I missed two that I didn't know were coming and felt awful. I should make them and mail them sooner.)  I dropped off my painting Sikinik at the Plymouth Center for the Arts. It's a 2022 acrylic painting 16 by 20 inches. It's for sale for $300. USD and 30% of the profit return to PCA. The show runs until July 23d. You can see it here (under my legal name). The joy of the image is I painted it while staying in a hotel last summer in Plymouth. I was waiting for my husband and found myself painting a happy water scene.  I'm supposed to go to Toronto for a day sale. I really want to

 Big thank you to Hampshire College staff and students with my fellow Indigenous frens. It was a good day to visit amongst the raindrops.  I'm happy to have met new students. Your higher self will appreciate you finishing the semester strong! I took some photos and was in some others, too.  Feel free to leave a message and/or follow me on Instagram @ella_alk. My digital prints are still for sale amma I have more acrylic paintings too.  Come visit me at Spring Thing at Brushworks in Florence on May 13th. Here's the flyer. Hope to see you there. 

It will be great to be back at this event with my digital prints amma some acrylic paintings for sale. I give a 10% discount to Indigenous folx amma 10% discount to Active Duty service members amma to Veterans. (Amma yes, 20% discount if you're an Indigenous Veteran :) )  I look forward to seeing you! Feel free to re-share and/or leave a comment.  

 Tujummagisi,  I have been wonderfully busy and have missed posting. My apologies. An artist life is never dull.  I have some projects going on that can't be divulged yet. (Woohoo) I will have a table at the Hampshire College Native Crossroads Festival on Thursday, May 4th. It will be nice to be back there. Last year was a success and fun to be with my Native frens and meet new people. I don't have a flyer yet, but will post it here when I get it.  I'll have a table at this Spring Thing event on Saturday, May 13th. Feel free to join us. I'll have digital prints and some acrylic paintings for sale. It's located here . I look forward to meeting you as I'll have a sign-up sheet for my newsletter.  Feel free to re-share and/or leave a comment. Thanks for reading. Atsunai-

 Good afternoon,  So glad you stopped by this little site. Thanks and feel free to share after or leave a comment. My 8.5" x 11" digital print called Graceful Gray is showing in "Speak in Colors: An exhibition art & ekphrastic poetry" at 50 Arrow Gallery in Easthampton, MA. My dear friend, Nicole Young-Martin, wrote a poem to go along with it.  I have senat/diez/ten digital prints for sale at $20.00 a piece and 20% of the sale goes to 50 Arrow Gallery.  Look on my Instagram account- @ella_alk for more information.  I still have acrylic paintings for sale at the Indigenous store in Toronto. Message me for the contact info. It's another hot day at 33 degrees C/91 degrees F. I have been home in the A/C instead of at the studio. Be well and drink more imik/agua/water. 

I painted an ulu and an inuksuk on 6 x 6 x 1.5 inches canvas. They're for sale at $65.00 USD/$89.00 CAD. I accept e-transfer and Venmo. I can email that info once I know where to ship them. Shipping and Handling costs vary by location. If sold in Hampshire/Franklin counties, I can deliver.  Both are original Inuit art and similar pieces sell in the Indigenous Art Market in Toronto for the same price.  Look at previous post for other paintings for sale too.  Let me know if you're interested. Follow me on Instagram: @ella_alk and you'll find more information there.  Life is good and better with paint. 

 Good morning,  It's a great day to register for the BOOM 2023- Voices from the Dawnland: Indigenous Writers Speak.  It's happening tomorrow, March 28th, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. EDT. The link is tinyurl.com/27jph8k4   Mohegan scholar, momma, fren, extraordinaire Rachel Beth Sayet will moderate and Narragansett elder Dawn Dove and Mohegan novelist/playwright Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel will read before me.  I have four poems ready to read.  Have a good day and I look forward to seeing you. 

On March 28th, I will be at Mount Holyoke College to teach a 90-minute workshop and then in the afternoon on Zoom, I will be on an Indigenous writers panel. Save the date.  Feel free to share this and I'll post more info. as I learn it.  Life is good. 

These original Copyrighted digital prints and acrylic paintings by me are for sale. They are currently showing at the Hosmer Gallery of Northampton, Mass., U.S.A. and won't be available to be picked up or shipped until 01 March 2023. Prices are posted in U.S. Dollars (USD) and in Canadian Dollars (CAD) like this: $__ USD/$___CAD.  -SOLD- Rainbow, digital, 11 x 8," 2023    $80.00/$108.00 Grand Inuksuk, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 10," 2023     $100.00/$135.00 Under the Atsaanik, digital, 18 x 26," 2021     $180.00/$242.00 Rock on Home, acrylic on canvas, 6 x 6," 2023     $70.00/$94.00 Orange Ulu, acrylic on canvas, 8 x 8," 2022     $80.00/$108.00 Inuk Anaanak, digital, 16 x 20," 2022     $180.00/$242.00 Smiley, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 10," 2023     $90.00/$121.00 Homeland Ulu, acrylic on canvas, 9 x 9," 2022     $90.00/$121.00 The Shore, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 12," 2022     $140.00/$188.00 I used the Xe  App to convert prices as of 09 Feb. 2

Happy Fri-yay! Last night was a success! Many friends visited or sent me a message. I did a short FB Live video and here is the link to view it on my YouTube channel.   https://youtu.be/pm816fAdVkc Most of the art shown is for sale. Beaded Orange Shirt, Caught, Discovered, and My Ancestor are not for sale. I can make similar ones nevertheless.  Feel free to share this with a friend or leave a comment. Nakummek for viewing.  Life is good and better with paint. 

Pinch Me!  Life is good and busy and tiring and joy is spilling out of my cells.  I share the news with great happiness; Don't take it as bragging or gloating.  Due to the pandemic, I'm claiming my creative self instead of listening to the old voices who lied. They didn't know what they didn't know; I forgive them. I'm the Inuk artist who was told not to create art as a youngster. It took me decades to forgo the liar's "wisdom." Two of my small paintings are for sale at the Wampanoag Trading Post and Gallery. Look for the "Inuksuk Mikijuk" mini canvas and "Dancing Joy" mini canvas at https://bit.ly/3HlgvBm   I noticed the Trading Post's hours are Wednesdays to Sundays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Say hi to Danielle when you visit or order. She's an amazing author, mom, gallery co-owner, and UMass Amherst alumna.  Look for the announcement at  https://forbeslibrary.org/gallery/  middle of the page. My "Rainbow" digital pr

Atsusi!  If you can join us next Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. ET, come visit!  There's a Facebook event page too by Forbes Library too. It shows my digital print that is in the show. (I made the flier, too.) Leave a comment and I'll see you. 

 Our hybrid Painting Poetry 2022 finale will be fabulous and there's still time to register. The link is  https://bit.ly/3IJOx4D. Only six seats are left for in-person. Masks are recommended.  See you then.  

Atsusi, Here is the joyous link for my group art exhibition at the Hosmer Gallery of Forbes Library, Northampton. It's happening from Feb. 1st to 28th, 2023.  Scroll down mid-screen and you'll read about us. I'm thrilled! Most of my art is for sale.  Our reception is on Ground Hog Day, 2/2/23, and I'll stream on Facebook Live (if there's a cell signal during the reception).  Feel free to join us and tell/bring a friend.  

 Happy New Year!  I'm hitting the ground running with more artwork! Life is good and better with paint.   I submitted a 15 by 15-inch digital print for this show  This international show runs from Jan. 18 to Feb. 18th. I liked creating the digital print of an ooKpik/owl called "kina: who." I'll post the info. when it's Live. My second group art exhibition will be at the Hosmer Gallery of Northampton, MA. The link is  https://bit.ly/3Czy1Aj and runs from February 1-28, 2023. I included acrylic paintings and digital prints. When I know more, I'll post it here. Two other artists are showing with me. We're planning a reception and will let you know more when I know.  Our Painting Poetry 2022 online class is coming to a close soon. We're celebrating our hard work by having a hybrid Public Reading! You're invited to join us on Wednesday, Jan. 18th from 6 to 8 PM Eastern Time. There's still time to join us whether online or in person.  Thank you to C