Akalisie Novalinga

Akenesie Novalinga or Akalisie Novalinga (1910–1987) was a Inuk textile artist, printmaker, and throat singer from Nunavik, Quebec.

Biography Novalinga was born in 1910. She married Johnny Pov, a Inuk guide and community leader in Puvirnituq, an Inuit Northern village in Nunavik, Quebec. After the success of the Cape Dorset (Kinngait) print shop, Novalinga and Pov became early members of the Povungnituk Cooperative when it opened in 1961. One of those communities was Puvirnituq and, in 1959, Akenesie Novalinga and her husband were photographed building a kajak by Hudson's Bay Company photographer Frederica Knight.

Exhibition history Some pieces of her work are owned by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Her work has been shown in the United States in exhibitions in San Francisco and Seattle and also been included in multiple Povungnituk Annual Print Collections.