| Mina Napartuk | |
| Birth Date: | 1913 |
| Birth Place: | Kuujjuarapik, Quebec, Canada |
| Death Place: | Umiujaq, Quebec, Canada |
| Field: | Textile Art |
Mina Napartuk (1913 - 2001) was a Canadian Inuit artist known for her fabric and fur crafts, as well as her management of the women's craftshop in Kuujjuarapik.[1]
Napartuk was born in 1913 in Kuujjuarapik, Quebec.[2] She trained in the traditional arts of working with fur, skins, and fabric to create dolls, clothing (including kamiks), and wall-hangings known as akinnamiutak.[2] [1] Starting in the 1980s Napartuk managed the women's craftshop in Kuujjuarapik which focused on traditional crafts of the area.[1] In the mid-1980s she moved to nearby Umiujaq.[2]
Selected exhibitions that Napartuk's work has appeared in include Group Show of Wallhangings at the Innuit Gallery of Eskimo Art; Things Made by Inuit at La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec; and Inuit Art: A Selection of Inuit Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Man, Ottawa, and the Rothmans Permanent Collection of Inuit Sculpture, Canada at the National Museum of Man, Ottawa.[3]
She has participated in workshops in Montreal and Toronto.[1]
Napartuk died in 2001 in Umiujaq.[1]