Local artists selected for Native Arts Exhibition

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Published: Friday, 07 August 2020 22:11

The 15th Annual in the Spirit Contemporary Native Arts Exhibition has gone virtual for 2020. Juried by experts, the exhibition celebrates and promotes emerging contemporary Native art in the region. Click here to view 2020 pieces and artist statements.

The Forum congratulates Shawn Brigmam with the Spokane Tribe of Indians, and Ryan Feddersen and Tony Boyd with the Colville Confederated Tribes for being selected for the 2020 exhibition. Said Shawn of his glass sculpted Salishan Sturgeon Nose Canoe Column, “As a Plateau-specific cultural form, the glass canoe forms represent the marriage patterns, food gathering patterns, Indigenous knowledge, and even a fish for perhaps it was the sturgeon that once inspired the shape and design of the ancestral canoe.”