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Steven C. Brown
Steve Brown, artist and former curator of Native American art at the Seattle Art Museum, has published extensively on Northwest Coast art history, and produced many carvings and silver bracelets in the Northwest Coast style. He has been a frequent collaborator on major projects with Native artists and is an influential teacher of both history and art.
Janice Criswell
Janice Criswell, Tlingit/Haida weaver, teaches Northwest Coast basketry at the University of Alaska Southeast. She learned to weave Raven's Tail robes and basketry from Cheryl Samuel and Delores Churchill. She was one of the weavers who wove the "Hands Across Time" robe for the Alaska State Museum.
Kate C. Duncan
Kate Duncan received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Washington, studying with Bill Holm. She is Professor of Art History at the Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, and curatorial associate at the Burke Museum. She has published extensively on Native American art, and is currently president of the Native American Art Studies Association.
Bill and Marty Holm
Curator emeritus of Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum and professor emeritus of Art History, University of Washington, Bill Holm's career as an artist and scholar of Northwest Coast art is the inspiration behind the Bill Holm Center. Founding patrons of the Bill Holm Center, Bill and Marty Holm are currently working with Camp Nor'wester on Johns Island to continue their long tradition of teaching young people to appreciate Northwest Coast Native art and culture.
Calvin Hunt
Calvin Hunt, Kwagu'l Chief Tlasutiwalis of Fort Rupert, is also hereditary chief Na-soom-yees, Mowochaht from Friendly Cove. With his wife Marie, Calvin established a carving workshop, The Copper Maker, in Fort Rupert in 1981, expanding in 1989 to become the Kwakiutl Art of the Copper Maker Gallery. Calvin carves poles, masks, and canoes and also produces silkscreen prints, gold and silver jewelry, and stone carvings.
Shaun Peterson
Shaun Peterson, Puyallup/Tulalip artist, has done public works for the cities of Tacoma and Seattle, as well as site specific work for tribal buildings in his community. His work is carried by many galleries in the Northwest region that specialize in Northwest Coast Native art in the form of limited-edition prints, drums, masks, rattles, hand-carved cedar panels, etched glass, and metalwork.
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