09 November 2025
The area from Vancouver Island to the lower BC mainland and the coastline down to Oregon has been home to the Coast Salish for millennia. This is also where a unique breed of dog, which came to be known as the Salish Wool dog, had its origin. The Locals Wear Woven Fur When Spanish explorer […]
09 November 2025
Kwakwaka’wakw art has a long history of tradition and innovation, of legacy and inventiveness. Since the beginning, it’s been an evolving exploration of expression, design and form. Who are the Kwakwaka’wakw? The Kwakwaka’wakw (pronounced Kwak-wak-ya-wak), or Kwagiulth, are the original inhabitants of northern Vancouver Island, the adjacent mainland and the islands in between. The word […]
09 November 2025
Francis Dick, a Kwakwaka’wakw artist born in 1959, comes from the Musqamakw Dzawadaenutw Band of Kingcome Inlet and descends from the supernatural Wolf, Kawadelekala. She grew up in Alert Bay and later moved to Victoria, where she chose art over social work. She created her first painting in 1985. Much of her work reflects the […]
09 November 2025
Leslie Robert Sam was born in Duncan, BC, in 1973. He later adopted the artist name lessLIE to acknowledge the deception and betrayal Indigenous peoples faced through colonization. When he was six months old, he and his mother moved to Seattle to be near family, especially his grandfather Gary Rice. His grandfather, a Coast Salish […]
09 November 2025
Richard Hunt is one of Canada’s most celebrated Northwest Coast artists. He was born in 1951 in Alert Bay, British Columbia, and comes from a long line of respected Kwakwaka’wakw artists and carvers. His family’s legacy helped keep Kwakwaka’wakw art alive, and it shaped his own path from an early age. He began carving with […]
09 November 2025
Woodland Art—also called Legend Painting or Medicine Painting—blends traditional stories with modern materials. It focuses on the relationships between people, animals, and plants, and it uses strong spiritual imagery and symbolism. What Woodland Art looks like Woodland Art uses bright colours, bold lines, and flat, 2‑dimensional designs. Artists rely on heavy black form lines and […]
09 November 2025
Serigraphy—also called silk screening, screen printing, or serigraph printing—is a stencil‑based process that pushes ink through a fine screen onto paper. Early screens were made of silk, but artists now use finely woven polyester or nylon. The screen stretches over a wood or aluminum frame. A stencil blocks out selected areas, creating the negative image. […]
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