In 1986, Marie Bouchard and her husband, Jim McLeod, moved to Baker Lake from Winnipeg. By the late 1980s, the first generation textile artists – including Marion Tuu’luq, Ruth Qaulluaryuk, Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq and Mary Kuutsiq – lacked the necessary supplies and support to create work. Over the next decade, Bouchard provided encouragement, supplies, financial support and marketing assistance, resulting in a spectacular renaissance of this exquisite form of artistic expression. At the same time Marie and Jim assembled a celebrated private collection of works by all of the artists which has toured in exhibitions both nationally and internationally.