Arts and Textiles
Coast Salish Knitting
For more Videos and links:
Perpetual Salish
Coast Salish Art in the Classroom, UVic Legacy Art Galleries
An excellent webpage with art for discussion, thinking strategies, salish design elements, art projects, and territory maps.
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Salish Weave Collection
“The artists whose works are represented [in the collection] are among those who define and embrace the practice of Salish art. While drawing upon traditions and stories of their cultures, these artists are also challenging the definition of Salish art as they explore modern media and techniques.”
If you create a log in, you will have access to hundreds of pieces of art.
Coast Salish Art and Animals
Power point with images of Coast Salish Artists’ work, traditional form, animal symbolism, and language
Art by Joe Wilson
Totem Poles
Totem Pole Activity:
Joe Jack
Coast Salish artist, Joe Jack, is a member of the Cowichan tribes
His art provides “Traditional Native Indian designs from old Coast Salish legends and traditions that have been past down from generation to generation.”
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Joe Jack also provides Coast Salish history:
History of Coast Salish Knitting
Roy Henry Vickers
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“Roy, through hard work and intensive research, created his authentic and personal style of expression – a harmonious fusion of traditional and contemporary, old and new, personal and universal.
In many of his pieces, Roy uses superimposed ‘shadow images’ that add another layer of depth, history and myth to his clear, clean images. His signature Eagle Moon and various suns appear on many pieces as well.”
“The Indian Act Revisited”
CBC 8th Fire Dispatch
“As part of the exhibit, several Canadian artists were asked to create a piece of art that comments on an article of the Act. Those artists include Eruoma Awashish, France Gros-Louis Morin, Nadia Myre, Angela Sterritt, Jackie Traverse, Maria Hupfield, Teharihulen Michel Savard and Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui.”
Art of George Littlechild
George Littlechild uses striking images to represent and contrast First Nations culture with Canada’s colonial history and culture.
Click George Littlechild’s “Cross Examination 2” for link
