Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz

Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz is a beneficiary of Nunatsiavut kavamanga and a dual citizen. Ella reunited with her mother, Juliana Nathanael, and brother, Rob Lackie. She visits them in Toronto when she can travel. Ella is a happy Inuk and grateful for her good life after being homeless, having a tracheostomy for eight years, and survived domestic violence. She lives in America with her angutik and posik while their adult kid lives in Boston.

Ella attends Tungasuvvingat Inuit’s Inuit Teas over Zoom and enjoys them. She is a self-taught artist. Ella beads and sells her Orange Shirt pins. She creates and sells her digital art and acrylic paintings. She has shown her art in Leslie Grove Gallery of Toronto and three shows here in The States with one in Varna, Bulgaria.

Ella is university trained in early childhood education, journalism, and creative writing nonfiction. She’s written four articles for Inuktitut Magazine in the last couple of years. Ella’s taught two online classes for Indigenous writers out of North American Indian Center of Boston. She is a tutor for Native students at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Ella speaks publicly on Indigenous issues. She is proud to be an alumna of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Write Over Here Online Rezidency.

Ella is currently an Art Workspace Easthampton Studio Resident of Easthampton, MA until the end of February 2022. Ella is combining her art and writing for a children’s picture book. She hopes to get it published with Inhabit Media of Iqaluit, NU.

Contact Ella at ella.alkiewicz@gmail.com and see her artwork at www.ellaalkinuk.com. Her Instagram is @ella_alk, her Twitter is @ellaalk and she’s on Facebook.