Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. ON A BRISK JULY morning, hundreds of miles from his art studio near Vancouver, Robert ...
Haida artist James Hart has been working on his latest piece,The Dancing Screen, since 2010. The massive 4,000 lbs, 11x16 foot cedar carving is currently being finished at the Vancouver Art ...
To Speak with a Golden Voice Speakers Series is co-presented by the Bill Reid Gallery and the Department of Indigenous Studies at SFU and is proudly supported by the Bill Reid Centre at SFU and SFU ...
HYDABURG -- Chain saws toppled a 550-year-old western red cedar tree on Prince of Wales Island recently. But last month, the ancient log rose again as Eagle and Raven totem poles in the village of ...
If you’ve never encountered Corey Bulpitt’s fusion practice, imagine classical Haida forms and designs mated with the street art of hip-hop culture. Envision a Haida eagle carved in red cedar and ...
In residential school, each child was numbered, and referred to by their assigned number, according to actor Sphenia Jones. She said she was called '702.' (George Lawson. Niijang Xyaalas Productions) ...
Standing in front of a studio work desk cluttered with wood-carving tools, family photos, newspapers, and tide charts around his homeland Haida Gwaii, Kihl ‘Yahda (Christian White) describes the ...
In August 1969, the entire village of Old Massett celebrated the first totem pole raising on British Columbia's Haida Gwaii in nearly a century. The momentous occasion was captured in the 1970 ...
In 1969, when Robert Davidson was 22, he seized on a life-defining cultural and artistic mission: He would carve and raise a totem pole in his hometown of Masset, B.C. The remote fishing village, ...