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Learning by Design

Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art

by Karin Clark & Jim Gilbert

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conceptual, canadian, native american
list price: $32.95
edition:Paperback
also available: Paperback
category: Art
published: 2002
ISBN:9780969297949
Description

This companion manual to Volume 1 puts First Nations art into deeper cultural context, providing Native Indian philosophy, knowledge and skills foundation, code of ethics, and interviews with a contemporary First Nations family, as well as some aspects of historical context and a description of the Potlatch. A full colour, 16-page creation story with 20 designs is included. Additional topics include: contemporary design evolution with 50 examples, 20 designs to draw and paint, and a Quick Reference Chart containing over 100 designs.

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About the Authors

Karin Clark

Karin Clark

Writer/teacher/artist Karin Clark has had over 25 years experience working with both children and adults. Most of the time has been spent learning from, and teaching with, British Columbia's First Nations in public and private schools, colleges, art classes, aboriginal/social studies courses, and university teacher education programs. She writes to build bridges of understanding between cultures.

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Jim Gilbert

Jim Gilbert

Jim Gilbert (1932-2000): For thirty years, Jim Gilbert was an active artist working mainly in the art form of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations. He worked in most coastal Aboriginal Art styles with artistic production ranging from original graphic, limited and open edition prints, carvings in wood, ivory, bone and stone, to hand-engraved and sculptured jewelry pieces in silver and gold.

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