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Makituk Pingwartuk was born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1936. Sometime in the late 1960s she moved to Nelson, BC, where she attended the Kootenay School of Art. While there she learned to make ceramics under the guidance of Walter Dexter, one of BC’s outstanding potters. In 1967 three works by Makituk were entered by the School in the International Exhibition of Ceramics in Florence, Italy. Makituk Pingwartuk was awarded third prize.

Born: 1936