Curve Woman Carverson the Northwest Coast

Skeena Reece is an interdisciplinary artist of Tsimshian/Gitxsan and Cree/Metis decent. Reece is based on Vancouver Island, BC. In her artistic practice she aims to challenge, educate and inform audiences through her writing, performance art, video, photography and the characters she creates. Reece was awarded the Reveal Indigenous Art Award, the Viva Award and a BC Achievement Award for excellence in the Arts. Some notable works include 'The Sacred Clown, ' a collaboration with artist Jesse Scott created for the Medicine Project based on a Hopi tradition where the character often says or does uncouth things to teach lessons. Reece has largely attributed her humour as a direct result of growing up listening to stories of the Northwest Coast Trickster. Marika Echachis Swan is of Tla-o-qui-aht / Nuu-chah-nulth, Irish, and Scottish descent. As a printmaker and community archivist, Swan has spent the last ten years studying the extensive body of Nuu-chah-nulth ancestral belongings currently held in museums and archives around the world. Her research focuses on directly supporting the reinstatement of cultural belongings back into local living cultural structures through repatriation, re-creation, and local knowledge sharing. In Swan's carving work she emphasizes creating items that are meant to be used as an invitation to bring everyday action back into alignment with Nuu-chah-nulth worldviews and lifeways.