Art & Artists

Join Muckleshoot artist SiSeeNaxAlt Gail White Eagle in the Artist Studio

Meet two Tlingit artists — Lee Burkhart and Herb Sheakley Jr — as they demonstrate their work and share their knowledge in the Artist Studio.

Visit batik artist Xiaomei Wang in the Artist Studio.

Renown artist Kim Bong Jun (Corean) will be demonstrating traditional Corean calligraphy in the Artist Studio. He will also share about Corean Indigenous cultural heritage in connection with the Indigenous peoples living here in Seattle!
 

Increasing tourism on the island of Lanyu disturbs the practices of Indigenous Tao culture.

Spokane artist Shawn Brigman specializes in making bark sturgeon-nose canoes, a unique form of vessel wrapped in thick bark. He recently made and deliver one to the Burke Museum to be housed in the permanent collections.

Learn more about the Bill Holm Center's collaboration with the University of Washington Press, Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series.

The Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum will be welcoming 12 individuals and groups into the museum as a part of their Connections to Culture Visiting Researcher Grant.

Join artist-in-residence, Natasha Marin, as she creates a masquerade (physical representation of spirits or ancestors) sculpture exploring displacement, and belonging.