WCLS Nooksack Cultural Liaison Marty Jimmy and Coast Salish artist/muralist Jason LaClair sit down for a conversation about indigenous art, friendship and growing up, traditions and cultural legacies, and much more at the Deming Library where Jason created and installed a mural of Salmon Woman and a Spindle Whorl on the library wall.
The mural was funded by The Norcliffe Foundation, Whatcom Educational Credit Union, Whatcom Community Foundation’s Project Neighborly and the Friends of the Deming Library, who own the library building.
Book Recommendations
Sa’le Q’ewet Netse-lh: Our Hearts Beat as One by Tah-Mahs Ellie Kinley and Julie Trimingham; translation by Na-tak-ul-tan Tino Kurtz; illustrations by Sienum Jason LaClair
Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast by Hilary Stewart
Understanding Northwest Coast Art: a Guide to Crests, Beings and Symbols by Cheryl Shearar
Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art From the Eighteenth Through the Twentieth Century by Steven C. Brown
