Art & Artists

Video from the Burke Museum's ArtTalk Symposium: Conversations on Northwest Native Art on March 27-28, 2015.

The vitality of the Native art scene in the Northwest continues to grow in creative and unexpected ways, but connections to older artworks often provide the spark that keeps Native artists inspired.

Presentations on Northwest Coast art history & Indigenous methodologies.

Panel discussion on contemporary Northwest Coast art and how artists challenge pre-conceptions.

Presentations on collaborative research and community-based scholarship.

Shaun Peterson (Puyallup/Tulalip artist) and David R. Boxley (Tsimshian artist) join Robin K. Wright in a conversation about Northwest Coast art styles.

Despite its popularity, the identity of the carvers who made the poles has been misrepresented for years.

We look back at what we’ve learned about the Native mask that inspired the original Seattle Seahawks logo in the past year.

The mask that inspired the Seattle Seahawks logo is discovered to be part of the Hudson Museum collection in Maine.