[BCMA] Book Launch at the Bill Reid Gallery

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe
BOOK LAUNCH 

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
639 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC
Thursday, December 8, 2011, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Join Dr. Martine Reid, author and editor of Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe at
the Bill Reid Gallery for the launch of this new book, published by Harbour
Publishing.

> 5:15pm Remarks by Dr. Reid
> 5:30pm General discussion and book signing by Dr. Reid

Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe tells the story of the pivotal role of the
canoe in Northwest Coast art, cultures and communities. It traces its zenith
in pre-contact times, through its decline in the late nineteenth century, to
its revival in Lootaas (Wave Eater) which Bill Reid and his team carved for
Expo ¹86, to its culmination in tribal canoe journeys of the twenty-first
century and The Spirit of Haida Gwaii sculptures. Bill Reid expressed awe
for the traditional Haida canoe and what it represents visually,
symbolically, and culturally. In his words, ³Western art starts with the
figure‹West Coast Indian art starts with the canoe.²
³Too often, the Northwest canoe has been portrayed primarily as a
utilitarian object. We see the canoe as a complex, multi-faceted symbol, an
essential carrier of culture, and as art. Through the telling of Haida
artist Bill Reid's intellectual and physical involvement with canoes, we
discover new insights into his creative journey, the place of the canoe
within it and within the larger spectrum of his artistic development and
practice. Reid¹s understanding of the symbolic power of the canoe to connect
people to each other, to the land and the sea, to their past and future, and
to a renewed sense of themselves guided his journey to the end,² says Dr.
Martine Reid. 

The story is told through writings and artworks by Bill Reid, consummate
photographs by Phillip Hersee, Ulli Steltzer, Robert Semeniuk and others,
texts by Dr. James Raffan, Dr. Martine Reid, and Mike Robinson, and
first-hand accounts by First Nations paddlers and canoe makers.
Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe is a companion book to the eponymous
exhibition mounted by the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art that runs
until January 8, 2012 and will subsequently tour to the Canadian Canoe
Museum in Peterborough, Ontario. The Bill Reid Gallery acknowledges the
generous support of TELUS on this project.

Author and editor Dr. Martine Reid is Director of Content and Research at
the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver, BC.

INFORMATION: 604.682.3455 or info at billreidgallery.ca
Cover: courtesy of Harbour Publishing; Image: © Philip Hersee Photography

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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
639 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 2G3
T  604.682.3455
F  604.682.3310
www.billreidgallery.ca

Gallery Hours: Wed ­ Sun, 11am ­ 5pm

Feature Exhibition: Bill Reid and the Haida Canoe - June 22, 2011 ­ January
8, 2011

Follow us on Twitter!
http://twitter.com/billreidgallery

The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is an initiative of the Bill
Reid 
Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization.


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