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The Freda Diesing School 2011 Year-End Exhibit
The Freda Diesing School’s year-end exhibit has become a fixture on my calendar. Not only is it one of the largest annual shows of First Nations artists anywhere in the province, but I enjoy seeing how...
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Kelly Robinson, “Mother of Mischief”
Kelly Robinson is a new artist of mixed Nuxalk and Nu-chu-nualth ancestry. His silver jewelry is starting to become a regular feature of Vancouver galleries, and in the last year he has begun carving...
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The Freda Diesing School 2012 Graduate Exhibit
Last week, I flew into Terrace to attend the end exhibit at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art. Of the four year end exhibits I’ve attended, this years’ was the weakest, with the fewest...
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Kelly Robinson, “West Coast Wild Man”
The Nu-chu-nulth (formerly known as the Nootka and West Coast) were among the earliest First Nations to have contact with European explorers. Yet today, very few Nu-chu-nulth artists are well-known. I...
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“Kelly Robinson: ‘Nuxalk Box Design: Four Carpenters”
In April, I flew up to Terrace for the Freda Diesing School’s graduation show. I entered from one end of the modern longhouse where the exhibit was set up, and wound my way through the display panels...
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Seven up and coming Northwest Coast Artists to look for
Which upcoming First Nation artists in the Pacific Northwest are worth having a look at? Giving an answer is not easy, because traditional art forms and contemporary variations are thriving as never...
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Kelly Robinson, “Shamed Spirit”
Kelly Robinson is one of my favorite First Nations artists. I live with two of his paintings and three of his masks, all of which are strikingly different. Partly, his versatility is explained by the...
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