"A compelling introduction to the artistic techniques, training processes, and the cultural imperatives that are underlying the carving. It is, finally, a celebration of both artistic talent and cultural persistence."
"A compelling introduction to the artistic techniques, training processes, and the cultural imperatives that are underlying the carving. It is, finally, a celebration of both artistic talent and cultural persistence."
"An important record of late-twentieth-century pole carving that will be appreciated by future historians of Northwest Coast art."
Vickie Jensen has collaborated with Pacific Northwest Indigenous communities since the early 1970s to document and revitalize languages and assist in First Nations work toward self-determination. Norman Tait (1941–2016), considered the foremost Nisga’a carver of his generation and the first Northwest Coast carver to have a solo exhibition at Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology, cofounded the Klee Wyck Carvers school.