The Life and Legend of Bill Reid: CBC archives

Archives and stories pertaining to the late Bill Reid:
http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/sculpture/topics/1273/

Le-La-La Dancers: Spirit Journey: Encircling Our Ancestors

The Beat Volume 3, Issue 11 November 2009

In Nanaimo, the Kwakwaka’wakw Le-La-La Dancers are performing Spirit Journey: Encircling Our Ancestors at the Port Theatre on Thursday December 3 2009. Call 250 754 8550 for tickets.

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The Premier's new desk

Arthur Vickers spent 42 months building bentwood-box lookalike

The artist Arthur Vickers has created what he calls the Leadership Desk in the form of a large bentwood box. He has painted figures from native iconography on all sides of what is a breathtaking, one-of-a-kind piece.

Globe and Mail:
Gordon Campbell's desk a thing of beauty 


The Beat Volume 3, Issue 11 November 2009:

Tsimshian artist Arthur Vickers has carved a fine Leadership Desk for the office of the Premier of British Columbia, presented on October 28. The desk was created without drawers, in the form of a bent box, its top a lid. The outside front of the cedar desk is painted with a young eagle, and on the other side, male and female humans with arms outstretched, representing the current generation of British Columbians. The side panels depict a future generation awaiting birth.
Like his brother Roy Vickers, Arthur Vickers has a studio and art gallery on Vancouver Island. Arthur Vickers’ Shipyard gallery is in Cowichan Bay. For an image and more of the story, see
http://www.vancouversun.com/Native+artist+designs+premier+desk/2157574/story.html 

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Native intelligence - Brian Jungen

Washington Post's Art Review on Brian Jungen's exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian

Brian Jungen, installation view, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, 2007. Photo: Scott Massey

View some of Jungen's work from The Tyee Brian Jungen Gallery:
http://thetyee.ca/gallery/2006/01/25/BrianJungen/index.html

from The Beat Volume III, Issue 10 October, 2009:
Brian Jungen is also participating in the group exhibition, Moby Dick, at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, from 22 September to December 12 2009. Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev will lecture in San Francisco on Thursday October 22 2009, at 7 pm. at the California College of the Arts. For more information, see http://www.wattis.org

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2010 Olympic medal design unveiled

First Nations artist Corrine Hunt responsible for the design used on the newly minted 2010 Olympic Medals. Read the CBC article here:
CBC News - British Columbia - 2010 Olympic medal design unveiled

See how they are made:
Watch the making of the 2010 medals on the official Royal Canadian Mint website

Image copyright (VANOC)

Native Art for 2010

The Beat Volume III, Issue 10 October, 2009

Two important works of art by Michael Nicolls Yahgulanaas and Thomas Cannell were presented to the public in early September. They are among forty-five pieces commissioned for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in February 2010 for venues in Richmond, Vancouver and Whistler.

The secondary site for hockey events is the University of British Columbia’s Thunderbird Arena. Cannell’s work, Thunder, is a 5-metre cedar panel showing a radiant sun, with two thunderbirds carrying salmon and eggs up to it.

Yahgulanaas has created a Haida Manga-style work called Take Off. A bird-like creature taking flight was created from copper encrusted re-cycled Volvo fenders and door, painted with black formline designs.

These pieces join others already installed at the arena, including Musqueam Joe Becker’s yellow cedar panel of a Thunderbird, a textile piece by Debra Sparrow, a carving by Chrystal Sparrow, and a carving by Irving Sparrow.

Lakota-Sioux artist Dana Warren is one of six curators presenting Code Screen 2010, a series of bi-weekly online exhibitions of contemporary Canadian downloaded to your computer from the web, as a countdown to Vancouver’s Olympic Games in February 2010. Visitors to http://www.vancouver2010.com/code can apply to be alerted when these new exhibitions are posted.

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