Witnessing the River: Artist Timothy White Eagle on Water, Memory, and Relationship

An art installation that consists of a pole wrapped in red and yellow, with a black and white photo of a man in the background.

When artist Timothy White Eagle talks about the Green-Duwamish River, he doesn’t describe it as a landscape, a resource, or even a subject for artistic study. He describes it as something more akin to a relationship. “It’s really a witnessing, not just a listening,” he says. “The river is never the same from day to […]

From Forest to Furnace: Dan Friday Continues Tradition in Glass

A man in glasses and a blue and black leaf patterned button up holds a metal rod with a glowing orange mass of glass at the far end.

Dan Friday, a member of the Lummi Nation, has been creating glass art drawn from his Coast Salish heritage for 30 years. The heat hit him first. Furnaces roared and metal tools clanged as molten glass glowed in barely controlled shapes. Dan Friday hadn’t come to the hot shop for a class or to buy […]