In 2008, Alberta-based curator Wayne Baerwaldt invited John Noestheden (b.1945) from Regina and Shuvinai Ashoona from Cape Dorset to meet in Calgary and collaborate on a five-metre-vertical drawing that would be made into a forty-metre banner for an event to be held at the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland.

The result was Earth and Sky, a mixed-media drawing that combines Arctic landscapes and astronomical bodies, primarily rendered in black and white line drawings with occasional punctuations of bold, bright colour.