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Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.
Douglas Reynolds Gallery specializes in contemporary Northwest Coast art, working closely with Northwest Coast Indigenous artists.The gallery represents over 100 artists [4] from indigenous cultural groups, spanning from the Haida and Tlingit in northern British Columbia to the Coast Salish in the Vancouver area and northern Washington state.
Mark Loria Gallery (formerly Alcheringa Gallery) is a Canadian contemporary art gallery specializing in Northwest Coast, Coast Salish, and Canadian indigenous fine art. The gallery exhibits artwork from the contemporary period (1960s forward) as well as representing over 60 current artists.
Named after the Haida artist Freda Diesing, one of the first female carvers on the modern Northwest coast, aka Kant Wuss, Skill-kew-wat and Wee-hwe-doasl, who was born in the Sadsugohilanes Clan of the Haida in British Columbia to Flossie and Frank Johnson. Her Haida name, Skill-kew-wat, translates roughly as Magical Little Woman.
The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art celebrates his legacy through the curation of contemporary Indigenous art. [ 4 ] Reid was a matrilineal descendant of K'aadaas Gaa K'iigawaay, [ 5 ] who belong to Ḵayx̱al, the Raven matrilineages of the Haida Nation.
^ Drew, Leslie and Douglas Wilson. 1980 Argillite, Art of the Haida. Hancock House, North Vancouver. ^ Getty, Ronald, M. and Knut R. Fladmark. (editors) 1973 Historical Archaeology in Northwestern North America. Archaeological Association, Calgary. ^ Gunther, Erna. 1966 Art in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians. Portland Art Museum, Portland.