The Times-Dispatch has  nice article on the new Inuit Art display at the University of RIchmond’s Harnett Museum of Art, that we mentioned a few weeks ago.  The show opened in October and runs through November 16th.

In less than a decade, Dan Albrecht has catapulted himself into the world’s top tier of collectors of Inuit art.

All the while, in a half-dozen ventures into the Canadian Arctic, Greenland and Alaska, the retired, Phoenix-based entrepreneur has documented the lives of Inuit (or Eskimo) artists in photographs and recorded interviews. ….

“With the Inuits, it’s a case of necessity yielding the birth of creativity,” Albrecht says. “These people are very resourceful. They’re used to making something from nothing. They use what they have. Bones, stone, animal skins - that’s what they have. You won’t see wood here because wood is hard to come by in the Arctic.”