The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

Sarah Bowman of Nature's Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. Sarah Bowman of Nature's Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. She takes us through ...

Students at Winnipeg's Oakenwald School literally sank their teeth into learning about Indigenous tradition this week, as Cree artist Pat Bruderer spent three days showing kindergarten to Grade 6 ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

June McCallum-Gareau says when she sits down to make traditional art it's therapeutic. The residential school survivor and cancer survivor is showcasing her first exhibit of birch bark biting and ...

Growing up in South Korea, Sophia Kim would walk by a long row of birch trees on her way to school that still sticks with her today. “I was mesmerized by them: they seemed to talk to me,” says the now ...

Pat Kruse is a birchbark artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Pat Kruse is a birchbark and quill artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Working with ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 93 (Sale info: $100.00). Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition of Paintings, now open by the Utica Art Association, (Incorporated January, 1866.) at Carton Hall, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christal Ratt brought home a second-place ribbon from the Heard Guild Museum’s 2022 Indian Market and Fair in Phoenix, Ariz.

Tao says students majoring in fine arts and crafts have a solid art foundation which helps them understand the essence of craftsmanship. The introduction of the traditional craft has inspired the ...