Quiz: Cape Dorset Printmaking in the 2000

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In the 2000s, a new group of Cape Dorset artists began to create:
1. Sculptures with sandstone
2. Increasingly daring, reflective and eloquent drawings
3. Engravings that featured watercraft
4. Four-colour lithographs
In 2005, the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative began to work with Atelier GF to create:
1. Screen prints, or serigraphs, of Cape Dorset prints
2. Digital reproductions of Cape Dorset prints
3. Stonecut prints
4. Litho washes
The size of annual collections throughout this decade was:
1. About 20 prints, featuring 15 artists
2. About 50 prints, featuring 25 artists
3. About 65 prints, featuring 20 artists
4. About 30 prints, featuring 12 artists
To help broker the transition to newer styles and untried themes, the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative introduced:
1. Targetted online marketing techniques aimed at a new, younger audience
2. “Spring releases,” small collections of some of the studio’s more daring art
3. A weekly online artists’ forum designed to foster an exchange of ideas
4. Computerized tools to the printmaking process
New themes and artistic directions in this decade included:
1. Close-ups of tools and people
2. A strong focus on ice and snow
3. Climate change
4. The internet

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