Curator & Collector

Corrine Hunt, co-designer of the 2010 Winter Olympics medals Today my wife and I went back to the Aboriginal Artisans’ Village, an event held during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Today, we met the 2010 Winter Olympic medals co-designer Corrine Hunt, who was selling her jewelry at the event. This brief meeting near the [...]

Northwest Coast artist April White It is, of course, the 2010 Olympics, and I am pleased to see an Olympic welcoming of the aboriginal art of the Northwest Coast in the public spaces of metropolitan Vancouver. On the weekend, I and my family took in several events related to the First Nations arts of the [...]

Image of the Jody Broomfield-designed $3 coin, “Return of the Tyee” Jody Broomfield, whom I met last week at the Aboriginal Artisans’ Village during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, was the one who created this beautiful design celebrating the return of the Tyee, or black salmon. This silver proof $3 coin was produced by Canada’s [...]

Understanding the aboriginal art of the northwest coast is a worthy endeavor; fortunately, the first steps are not difficult. This post functions as a table of contents, or index, to the posts in my series on the formal elements of the aboriginal art of the First Nations of the northwest coast. The series took as [...]

Solstice 2001 image from Roy Henry Vickers’ “Copperman: The Art of Roy Henry Vickers” Solstice 2001 belongs to a period in Roy Henry Vickers’ art long after the highly traditional forms of Raven and Whale, and yet there is still much to be appreciated in terms of traditional forms and subjects, quite apart from Vickers’ [...]

The Westcoasters, taken from Roy Henry Vickers’ book “Solstice: The Art of Roy Henry Vickers” Roy Henry Vickers’ 1982 work The Westcoasters is an early transitional work. In the book Solstice, it is, in fact, the first work not to make more or less exclusive use of the traditional shapes of northwest coast aboriginal art. [...]