“Did I make a mistake? Like, what am I doing here?” Fredlund said in May from her student home in Halifax. Fredlund, a 41-year-old Inuk artist from Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, relocated with her four children thousands of kilometres from the Arctic to the East Coast to study art. She’s months away from completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University. “I just had this yearning to learn more,” Fredlund said. But at times it’s been difficult.