Inuit art generally depicts themes of housing, land, family, and traditional ways of getting food through hunting and fishing. For more than six thousand years the Inuit have made their homes in cold places from Siberia to Greenland, spanning the Arctic Circle. There are four seasons in this land; the longest, coldest season is winter when, in the farthest north, temperatures can reach -75¦F with no sunlight for three months. In the same area, summer lasts a month or two with 24 hours of daylight. Inuit art in the form of drawings, prints, sculpture and wall hangings was begun in the 1950s as a way for people to earn money as they tried to adjust to life in resettled villages. º Today, Canadian Inuit people live in prefabricated housing in small isolated communities, reached by supply ships that come once a year and by airplanes.
