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"Davidson's art is not in between art object and material culture: it is contemporary, and its modern hybridity is culturally specific with universal appeal. His untitled acrylic paintings, one on paper (1997) [above] and the other on canvas (1999), are similar in their use of colour and form. Their...

Joe was born in the village of Opitsat on Meares Island in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia. One of a large family that moved frequently, including a stop in Seattle, Washington, Joe studied fine art in Texas before witnessing the early developments of the modern Northwest Coast art movement. ...

Jayme Anderson is Te Aupouri tribe from Tekao on the northwest tip of North Island. His Māori / Anderson whakapapa (lineage) begins with the marriage of Erina Kaka to Andrija Kleskovic in 1891. Erina Kaka was the oldest of four children and the daughter of Chief Hohepa and Annetta. ...

Silas was born in 1956 in Hall Beach, the son of two artists, Joanasi and Martha Kayakjuak. Silas learned to carve at an early age by watching other family members carving. He began to carve at the age of eight and produced his first serious carving when he was twelve. ...

Kananginak has been involved with drawing and printmaking since the late 1950s when the graphic arts program first began at Cape Dorset. Kananginak's first print, a collaborative image with his father, Pootoogook, was included in the first catalogued collection of Cape Dorset prints in 1959. ...

Preston Singletary has occupied a unique position as an aboriginal artist who trained solely in glass. He is a graduate of the Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Washington, which ranks among the most prestigious glass schools in the world. The school has always fostered a milieu open to new ideas a...

A grandson of the carver Kiakshuk and the only child of artists Paunichea and Munamee Davidee, Aqjangajuk began carving at the age of seventeen. He participated in the early drawing projects in Cape Dorset but realized his strengths lay in sculpture and did not draw after 1960. ...

View detail photos to see sleeping figure on reverse. Gary Olver was born in 1966 in The Pas, Manitoba of Woodlands Cree decent. His family moved to British Columbia in 1975. On a family vacation to visit his uncle, who was stationed at the air force base in Masset, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Isla...

Kiawak was the fourth son of the noted tribe leader Ashoona, who helped to form the village of Cape Dorset when he brought his hunting group in off the land and settled there, at around the same time as Pootoogook and Saila. ...

Earnest Cole was born in 1944 in Bella Coola, a traditional coastal village in central British Columbia. His great-grandfather was the respected hereditary chief, Tlelamin, whose longhouse was reproduced by Nuxalk carver, Glenn Tallio for the Great Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull...

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Francis Horne began to carve in 1973 and is largely self-taught. He has produced numerous major totem poles for public, corporate and private international commissions. The city of Duncan, known as the "City of Totem Poles," has five of his poles. His elaborate masks and smaller works are limited in...