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A steady source of inspiration for a decade, the Arctic Inspiration Prize—with its spotlight-eschewing founders Arnold Witzig and Sima Sharifi—ARE Up Here’s Northerners of the Year.

With a low tolerance for boredom, Inuk master artist Germaine Arnaktauyok has followed her creative ambitions and love of Inuit legends wherever they took her, in a career that has inspired books, films and even acrobats.  

Churches as galleries and school gyms as concert halls—art spaces and performance venues are hard to come by in the North. But art-lovers in each territory make do with what they have.

Crucial to North-proofing buildings, whitewash was produced on the Slave River. But by whom?

Million-dollar views. Wilderness at the doorstep. Big communal spaces to gather in. Here’s what Northerners want from their dream homes.

True, most of the humble and hastily built dwellings that helped trappers and settlers get through a winter or two have crumbled. But log houses constructed with love and attention still dot the urban landscapes, as some Northerners fall for homes with a more natural feel.