Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to an oral question asked by Mr. Antoine on March 5, 1993, regarding competition for artists in the Northwest Territories.
Nunatta campus of Arctic College delivers a fine arts program in Iqaluit, and has recently organized a fine arts and crafts competition as an initiative to enhance the development of arts and crafts in Nunavut.
Through fund raising activities in Nunavut, Nunatta campus secured funds from the private sector to support the project and to sponsor the cash prizes. The competition categories included a broad range of arts and crafts from carving to drawing and printmaking, jewellery and silversmithing, photography and traditional crafts.
This is the first year that a fine arts and crafts competition has been organized by Arctic College. If this project is successful in Nunavut, the college may expand the competition to the western Arctic.