Darlene Wight was born in Picton, Ontario and attended Peterborough Teachers' College (1967-1968); Carleton University, Ottawa, where she received her B.A.
[3] The gallery had collected Inuit art since 1957, initially, in part, due to Winnipeg’s business dealings with the Arctic,[4] that is the city's historical status as a trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC).
[5] Under Wight’s stewardship, major developments in Inuit art were defined and the collection doubled in size.
[7] She co-authored the story of contemporary Inuit art of Canada in the book catalogue which she edited for her major survey exhibition, Creation and Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art (2014) which drew on 250 pieces from the gallery’s collection and was co-published by the gallery and Douglas & McIntyre.
It received the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction from the Manitoba Writers Guild (2013)[8] and Goodreads gave it four out of five stars.