Haida Art & Ledger Horses: All Ages Painting Workshop with Bruce Cook

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All Ages, family friendly art workshop!

Join Homelands Curator and Artist, Bruce Cook for an all ages painting workshop. Explore the styles and techniques of Haida Art and Ledger Horses. No experience necessary. Supplies provided.

This event is made possible by a collaboration between Street Wise Arts and Creative Nations.

About the Artist:
I am an artist with a complex ethnicity, Haida and Arapaho. I explore my art through wood carving, painting, drawing, sculpture, and design.

As a Haida artist residing in Wyoming I am driven to explore and innovate. The woods and natural materials I used that were once abundant in the Pacific Northwest are now scarce. This scarcity of resources has led to a creative drive which has been vital to my survival as a Haida artist in the high plains desert.

My subject matter is Haida; both traditional and contemporary. As Native artists we are capable of inhabiting both forms simultaneously, I am free to create without the confines of being bound to one or the other.

My favorite mediums are yellow cedar and fresh red alder. Their suppleness, delicacy, strength, and willingness to be transformed in both form and texture make them perfect mediums for exploring Haida art.

Each day brings with it a new desire to practice the forms of those who have come before me and a push to innovate in the forms that are yet to come. This inspiration is my daily spirit to create

For many artists who work in traditional mediums there is a difficulty in telling the story of our artwork to a larger audience. The items that we toil over for endless hours move into the hands of the recipient only to be seen on special occasions or never to be seen again. Sometimes this is part of an ethereal ethic but many more times it is simply because there was no way to capture the project in imagery and push the story forward. That is certainly the case with my own wood carving. drawing, and painting