“Indigenous women on the Northwest Coast carve poles, panels, masks, bowls, and other sculptures, all intertwined with traditional knowledge. Published in conjunction with and exhibit at the Audain Art Museum, Curve! celebrates the artwork and voices of more than a dozen creatives who bring together the curve of the wood and the curve of the blade.

Featuring texts by Dana Claxton, Skeena Reece, and Marika Echachis Swan; interviews with Curtis Collins with Mary Anne Barkhouse and Dale Marie Campbell; and artworks by Cherish Alexander, Stephanie Anderson, Morgan Asoyuf, Dale Marie Campbell, Freda Diesing, Doreen Jensen, Marianne Nicolson, Ellen Neel, Arlene Ness, Susan Point, Melanie Russ, Cori Savard, Marika Echachis Swan, and Veronica Waechter.”

Hardcover

Published in 2024

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“An incredible archive of paintings by Northwest Coast artists, allowing the viewer to explore the creativity, energy, and depths these artists have achieved.” – Robert Davidson

In the two decades since its initial publication, The Transforming Image has become a must-have book for scholars ad appreciators of Northwest Coast art, and, importantly, for First Nations artists, who have found inspiration in its wealth of images and ideas. A new edition of this groundbreaking volume makes its invaluable findings accessible once again.

Its hundreds of photos of historical Indigenous artworks – objects and belongings now widely dispersed in collections around the world – are the extraordinary result of the Museum of Anthropology’s Image Recovery Project, which used infrared photography to reveal paintings on historical Northwest Coast objects whose surfaces are obscured by the patina of age. The project assembled images of nearly a thousand different paintings over its two-decade run, and worked with contemporary First Nations artists to reconstruct the compositions and understand their original context and significance, which the authors discuss in their insightful and engaging commentary. The rediscovered artworks radically deepened the understanding of Northwest Coast First Nations painting, including techniques, materials, imagery, and the creativity of generations of ancestor artists.

A new preface by Karen Duffek speaks to what the book has helped set in motion, and how First Nations artists today are taking this art forward in new and compelling directions.

Hardcover

Published in 2022

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