Kashka Clellamin from Bella Coola created this rendition of a Heiltsuk bentwood box seen at the Freda Diessing School of Northwest Coast Art exhibit at the Kitimat Museum and Archives, during the opening on Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Robin Rowland)
The annual Fred Diessing Northwest Coast art exhibit opened at the Kitimat Museum and Archives on Saturday March 7, 2026. The school at Coast Mountain College in Terrace, brings together indigenous instructors and students from across the region to teach and learn the fundamentals of northwest coast art, design and paintng, later teaching carving and jewelery design while the students move on from the fundamentals to the art tradition of their own nation.
Visitors look at the work of students from the Freda Diessing School of Northwest Coast Art exhibit at the Kitimat Museum and Archives during the opening on Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Robin Rowland)Haisla Nation Elder Marilyn Furlan alongside instructor Nathan Wilson welcomed visitors during the opening of the Freda Diessing School of Northwest Coast Art exhibit at the Kitimat Museum and Archives on Saturday, March 7, 2026 (Robin Rowland)Instructor Nathan Wilson presents Haisla Nation Elder Marilyn Furlan with a student made bentwood box during the opening of the Freda Diessing School of Northwest Coast Art exhibit at the Kitimat Museum and Archives during on Saturday, March 7, 2026 (Robin Rowland)The students participating in the Freda Diessing School of Northwest Coast Art opening March 7 2026 (Robin Rowland)
It was a beautiful warm sunny summer afternoon on Thursday June 18, 2026. I took a break to sit out on my back deck. I just happened to glimpse at a female rufous hummingbird sitting in the cedar tree beside the deck. She has visited my feeder as few days before in a nasty rainstorm. […]
In one month the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty years ago, Canada gave a birthday gift to the United States, a glossy coffee table book of high quality photographs that was at the time the “longest undefended border” in the world. It was called Between Friends/Entre Amis. […]
