The Yellowknife Artist Run Community Centre (YK ARCC) is leading the charge to curate at least four new art shows in the city's visitor centre this year. A new gallery opened there last year.
Eighteen-year-old Kieron Mackenzie has turned heads in his community with his dragon making skills out of pipe cleaners. Sarah Swan, a member of YK ARCC says adding his work to the exhibit was a "no-brainer."
Artist Mike Mitchell said blue rope likely came to the North through commercial fishing, but it has grown to be a part of the territory in the same way as moosehide, canvas or birchbark.