Curator & Collector

Resized image of the Arthur Vickers-made Leadership Desk taken from the Vancouver Sun First Nations artist Arthur Vickers has designed and made a new “Leadership Desk” for the Premier’s Office in Victoria’s Parliament Buildings (see the story in the Globe and Mail, and also the story and photo gallery in the Vancouver Sun). The desk [...]

Image of Roy Henry Vickers’ artwork The Westcoasters taken from the reproductions page of the artist. While in UBC’s Museum of Anthropology the other day, I realized that First Nations artist Roy Henry Vickers represents canoes in different shapes. This thought came to me when I took this photograph of a Nuu-chah-nulth canoe* there: The [...]