The Inuit language has no word for art. It was not until the Inuits’ first meeting with Europeans that a new word eqqumiitsuliaq was invented. The meaning of it is “something curious which has been prepared”. Prepared items were most often articles for use in everyday life such as fishing, whaling and sealing tackle and clothing. Their decorations reflect a close relationship with nature, its magic and a rich verbal tradition of stories told by their forefathers.

The Inuit language has no word for art. It was not until the Inuits\' first meeting with Europeans that a new word eqqumiitsuliaq was invented. The meaning of it is \"something curious which has been prepared\". Prepared items were most often articles for use in everyday life such as fishing, whaling and sealing tackle and clothing. Their decorations reflect a close relationship with nature, its magic and a rich verbal tradition of stories told by their forefathers.

Today Greenlandic art still has a narrative power with strong ties to nature and animals and the legendary world of people. Art is an integral part of everyday life. Traditionally we see it expressed especially in the women\'s beautiful national c
ostumes and in jewellery, figures, etc. The artists illustrate CD covers, shopping bags, stamps, menus, posters, imaginative literature and schoolbooks. Art is being used.

Throughout Qaqortoq one meets one stone relief after another carved into the rock by artists from all the Nordic countries. The project was established on the initative of the famous artist - Aka H¸egh.

Inspired by the graphical works of Canadian Inuits a graphics\' workshop was established in Nuuk in 1970 where courses were held in various techniques, such as lithography, serigraphy, linocuts, woodcuts, etching, dry point, etc.

Later on the graphics\' workshop was replaced by the Art School. Every year 4-5 students enrol for a one-year training period. Today the school works with all kinds of visual arts.

Most of the students proceed for further education at art and design schools in Denmark or abroad. In this wave of young artists there are many women, which is new but also very typical of modern Greenland.