Aboriginal artists
Andy Everson Gifts Hockey “Bear” Print to CNN President at 2010 Winter Games
Andy Everson gifts “Bear” print, a silhouette of a goalie with an Aboriginal background bear design to CNN President. He has been invited by CNN to interview nightly for a different art print from his “Spirits of Snow & Ice Collection” to feature the various Olympics winter sports at Canvas Lounge, located at 99 Powell Street. [...]
‘We Are Here’
There were no nosebleed seats at the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Games, says Jody Broomfield, not from where he was sitting. “I was four rows from the top of the roof, but it was the best seat in the house.” The Squamish Nation artist created the crest for the Four Host First Nations [...]
Talking Stick Festival reflects resurging Native arts
According to founding member Marilyn Jensen, the Tlingit cultural troupe known as the Dakka Kwaan Dancers started out as a “mistake”: a failed attempt by some young residents of Carcross, in the Yukon, to capitalize on the tourists who were coming their way from the nearby Alaskan port of Skagway. In a move reminiscent of [...]
Fashion footwear grounded in Coast Salish art
Over the past year, using sharpies and pencils, Louie Gong has transformed shoes popular with the surf and skate crowd into culturally inspired works of art. Gong, of mixed-race heritage and raised on Indian reservations in Washington and British Columbia, combines the traditional crescents and form lines of Coast Salish art with the contemporary styles [...]
Coca-Cola art bottle celebrates Riel rebellion: Artist says work brings back spirit of the Metis people
Louis Riel’s armed resistance to the fledgling Canadian government and the subsequent rebirth of the Metis nation were celebrated Monday in the final aboriginal art bottle design for Coca-Cola. Called The Awakening, the two-metre tall Coke bottle, designed by artist Lisa Shepherd, is decorated with traditional Metis clothing and material, including a beaver fur cap, [...]
Native performers to shine at opening ceremonies
Put away those munchies. The Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony is meant to be a celebration of athletic achievement and grace under pressure — even if Canada’s contribution to lean cuisine does include poutine, maple syrup, sugar pie, butter tarts and Canadian bacon. The details of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Opening Ceremony are a closely guarded [...]
St. Eugene one of BC’s most culturally authentic aboriginal attractions
The St. Eugene Golf Resort & Casino is one of five tourism businesses in British Columbia to receive the “Authentic Aboriginal” title, a new designation awarded by the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia. The authenticity program recognizes the most culturally authentic, accurate and respectful representations of First Nations peoples and cultures in British Columbia’s tourism [...]
Winners, losers emerge in native art deal
When Vancouver was granted the Olympics, the organizing committee struck a formal partnership with four First Nations who claim the lands where the Games are to be held and spoke of showcasing native culture to the world. Some native people say the promise of jobs, training, and business opportunities for aboriginal residents is proving empty [...]
Victoria: Royal BC Museum hosts discussion forum on Coast Salish art
With only one month left to see S’abadeb – The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists, the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) and members of the Coast Salish community present a public discussion on artistic traditions. On Feb. 11, Thursday Night at the Museum Café: New Perspectives on Coast Salish Art brings together forum panellists [...]
Aboriginal artist says Métis shut out from 2010 Olympics
The start of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver is almost a week away, but don’t expect Métis Cree artist Mark MiLan to get too excited about it. It isn’t because he’s against the Olympic Games, like many other Aboriginal Canadians. In fact, Mark says in a lively and hurried tone in a phone [...]
Whistler: Opening doors to First Nations culture
SLCC remains open to public throughout Olympics, hosting range of performances and events To Willie Lewis, the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre is a dream realized for his people. “The presence of the centre here in Whistler just kind of gives us an identity and says that this land wasn’t uninhabited when people came here, it [...]
Pop art gets a new twist: Aboriginal artists’ creations based on the iconic Coke bottle will be on display during Olympics, and then auctioned
The idea of a mega-corporation offering up one of the world’s most famous trademarks – the iconic Coke bottle – as a blank canvas to native artists seems like it might have been a tough sell. But at a press conference yesterday at which representations of Coke bottles by four West Coast aboriginal artists were [...]
Artists, VANOC clash over aboriginal art
A fight has erupted between some native artists and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Winter Games over the definition of authentic aboriginal art. The artists complain that the committee, known as VANOC, is misleading the public about the authenticity of aboriginal products sold at Olympic venues and stores such as the Bay. VANOC is [...]
Vancouver 2010 Aboriginal venue artists to stage public exhibition, auction of work
Admission free to two-day event starting October 17 in downtown Vancouver. The public will have a chance to meet over 50 of the artists behind some of the awe-inspiring installations of Aboriginal art permanently installed at Vancouver 2010 Winter Games’ venues and view a selection of their paintings, carvings and photography at a two-day exhibition [...]
