News & Stories

Presentations on Northwest Coast art history & Indigenous methodologies.

Panel discussion on contemporary Northwest Coast art and how artists challenge pre-conceptions.

Presentations on collaborative research and community-based scholarship.

Shaun Peterson (Puyallup/Tulalip artist) and David R. Boxley (Tsimshian artist) join Robin K. Wright in a conversation about Northwest Coast art styles.

After nearly a century of silence, Kodiak youth and adults learn how to build a traditional model Angyaat.

Referencing Burke collections to reverse-engineer how this material was made and used in the past so it can be used again in the present.

Study finds egg masses of snailfishes deposited inside the gill cavity of North Pacific king crabs using molecular techniques.

Plants were an integral part of the Coast Salish diets prior to Euro-American colonization but also played central roles in social systems.

30 million years ago, the world lacked its grass-dominated environments, but 70 million years ago, grasses had not evolved—or so we think.