Susan Point: Coast Salish Artist

by Wyatt, Gary; Kew, Michael; Macnair, Peter; Giles, Vesta; McLennan, Bill; Nagai, Kenji

• ISBN13: 9780295980188
• ISBN10: 0295980184
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

Native American Salish artist Susan Point did not take up art until she was in her late twenties, but since then has immersed herself in the study of traditional Coast Salish art and culture. She says: "Coast Salish art is relatively unknown to most people today as it was an almost lost art form after European contact -- the reason being that Salish lands were the first to be settled by Europeans. Because of this, over the years, I have spent a great deal of my time trying to revive traditional Coast Salish art -- and also attempting to educate the public to the fact that there was, and still is, another art indigenous to the central Pacific Northwest Coast".

Point's striking and distinctive art -- from jewelry in precious metals to prints, paintings, and monumental pieces in wood and glass -- has won worldwide acclaim and a worldwide audience. An innovator with a strong personal style, she likes to express ancestral concepts and designs in media such as glass and bronze as well as the more traditional wood. "In creating my art", she says, "I feel a need to c

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(4)
Acknowledgements	11	(2)
Traditional Coast Salish Art	13	(12)
Michael Kew
Susan Point: Her Place by the River	25	(21)
Peter Macnair
New Works Susan Point as told to Vesta Giles	46	(48)
Contemporary Architectural Carvings	94	(43)
Bill McLennan
Chronology	137	(7)
Selected Publications	144