William Noah
William Noah (born 1944, Back River, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)[1]) is a former territorial level politician and artist. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1979 until 1982.
Noah was first elected to the Northwest Territories Legislature in the 1979 Northwest Territories general election, winning the electoral district.[2] He resigned before completing the end of his first term in 1982.[citation needed]
Noah currently resides in Baker Lake, Nunavut. He ran the constituency office for Baker Lake MLA David Simailak. He currently works as a Community Liaison Officer on the for AREVA Resources Canada.
In 1998 the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Marion Jackson, Judith Nasby, William Noah co-curated a major exhibition with catalogue both entitled Qamanittuaq (Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists which included and a memoir by William Noah and distinguished drawings by Noah, his three siblings Janet Kigusiuq, Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, and Nancy Pukingrnak, and their mother— first-generation artist— Jessie Oonark CM OC RCA.[3]
Noah formed the Art and Cold Cash Collective, a five-person artists' collective, with Sheila Butler, Ruby Arngna'naaq, Patrick Mahon, and Jack Butler.[4]
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References[]
- ^ William Noah Archived 2016-04-03 at the Wayback Machine at Inuit Art Alive
- ^ https://www.electionsnwt.ca/sites/default/files/official_voting_results_1979_revised.pdf
- ^ Nasby, Judith; Noah, William; Jackson, Marion E.; Millar, Peter (1998), "Qamanittuaq (Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists From the Collection of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre", Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Exhibition catalogue, Guelph, archived from the original on 2015-01-13, retrieved 2015-01-13
- ^ Mahon, Patrick. "Excerpts from the Drawn like Money Series". Highbeam Research. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
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