Artifacts and images associated with Northwest Coast Natives have intrigued visitors to this coastal region for centuries. Who has not been awed by the spectacle of Thunderbird, magnificent wings outstretched, atop a totem pole, or felt the power of the image of Sisiutl, the two-headed supernatural serpent? Until now, no resource guide has existed to inform visitors, as well as those who live in western Washington, about the rich heritage of Native arts, traditional and contemporary, that is a major feature of the area.
 Northwest Coast Native and Native-Style Art is designed to meet the need for such information. The guidebook covers sites from the Oregon line to the Canadian border and from the western slope of the Cascades to the Pacific coast. It embraces an art tradition that displays significant cultural continuity from the mouth of the Columbia River to Yakutat Bay and features art by Native and non-Native artists alike. The authors’ goal was to include every publicly accessible art object located within western Washington, whether the cultural tradition it represents originates in western Washington, British Columbia, or southeastern Alaska—the region customarily defined as the Northwest Coast.
In separate chapters based on five geographic zones, each accompanied by a map showing the sites to be discussed, the authors locate objects in public places; describe museum collections and tribal displays; identify retail outlets—both private galleries and museum shops—that sell Northwest Coast Native and Native-style art; provide information about recognized artists who are at work in western Washington, British Columbia, and southeastern Alaska; locate educational courses and programs designed to enhance understanding of regional arts; and list opportunities to see the art in use, for example, at powwows and in museum programs.
This informative, illustrated, and easy-to-use guide will be a valuable resource for those interested in the arts and cultures of the region—from students at all levels of expertise to collectors and artists. It is a book that is long overdue and that will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone who loves the arts of the Native peoples of the Northwest Coast.

Northwest Coast Native and Native-Style Art: A Guidebook for Western Washington

Arts & Photography

Averill, Lloyd J.

Morris, Daphne K.

History & Criticism

University of Washington Press

Bill Holm is internationally recognized as a leading expert on Northwest Coast, Plateau, and Plains Indian art. As curator emeritus of Native American art at the Burke Museum, professor emeritus of art history at the University of Washington, and author of numerous books and articles, including the classic work Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form, he has established an unparalleled reputation as a scholar, teacher, and craftsman. For many years he has also produced detailed paintings that draw on his ethnographic expertise to recreate the settings in which the old Native American art objects were used. This eagerly awaited book makes available for the first time 49 full-color reproductions of Bill Holm’s paintings of traditional Indian scenes, produced from the 1950s to the present. Also included are some of the small watercolors and drawings Holm has made on envelopes, and several of his three-dimensional pieces, some of which were created in part as props for the paintings. In addition to being visually compelling, the pictures provide a wealth of ethnographic detail, from the eagle down scattered by the Kwakiutl to welcome important guests, to the sun dogs -- bright spots near the horizon that mimic the sun -- featured in myths from many northern tribes. A lengthy descriptive caption by the artist accompanies each painting. Steven Brown’s essay offers a rich balance of scholarly information, sensitive critical analysis of individual works, and warmly personal anecdotes. He positions Holm’s scholarship in terms of his development as a fine artist, interweaving Holm’s curatorial activities and art historical writings with his corpus of paintings. Lloyd Averill’s concise, extensively researched chronology is packed with useful and interesting information. He provides in addition a complete bibliography of works by and about Bill Holm. His chronology includes Holm’s long relationship with the Kwakwaka’wakw and with coastal Natives, his association with Bill Reid and the “Northwest Coast renaissance,” and his involvement with the restoration and reissuing of the 1914 Edward Curtis movie, now titled In the Land of the War Canoes.

Sun Dogs and Eagle Down: The Indian Paintings of Bill Holm

Brown, Steven C.

Colleges and commitments

Westminster Press

Language-the ability to speak, to answer-is at the heart of our humanness. In language is the power to shape and to reshape our worlds, inner and outer. But many mainline Christians lack the faith language they need to make sense out of these confusing times. After "the acids of modernity" have done their worst, what can still be said about God, about the Bible, about Providence? Theologian Lloyd Averill examines the traditional language of faith-those, and other words, like sin, salvation, revelation, incarnation; even the word faith itself--to see what can be said about them that maintains their rich rootage in the Christian tradition and, at the same time, makes sense-can be empower us for understanding and change--in our kind of world. The style here is direct, the writing is accessible both to Christian insiders and to inquirers.

Reclaiming the Language of Faith

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

AuthorHouse

Religious Right, Religious Wrong

Pilgrim Pr

This book makes available for the first time forty-nine full color reproductions of Bill Holm's paintings of traditional Indian scenes.

Sun dogs & eagle down: The Indian paintings of Bill Holm

HOLM, Bill

Douglas & McIntyre, Limited

From the Foreword: "...While the midwestern college campus setting for this novel is of its essence, it is not in the end primarily a novel about the vagaries of academic life.  It is, in fact, an account of the search for human authenticity and integrity--for personal wholeness--by two of its characters; of the painful process from which one of the characters has already emerged in her search; and of the unwelcome opportunity for self-knowledge that circumstances foisted, willy-nilly, upon three others.  Rather than beingh a novel just about academic life, it is instead an extended metaphor for the larger life process in which we are all engaged.  Each of us has known those three modes of experience, sometimes seriatim, sometimgs in painful combination, and in their presence we have known the charpness of our disappointments and the exhilaration of our satisfactions.  It may even be possible that the story...will find a place in the reader's own quest for wholeness. That would be the most rewarding outcome an author could possible derive from his writing."  In the course of their search for authenticity, characters in ILLIBERAL EDUCATION, A NOVEL, find themselves caught up in issues of religious opportunism, generational conflict, romantic exploitation, gender identity, and academic politics.  It is, in those respects, a very contemporary story.

Illiberal Education; a Novel

Soundview Books

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