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Totem Pole Playhouse has opened enrollment for its 2026 spring classes and summer camps, just in time for the holiday season. Families can register students for a range of theater education programs ...

Emily Carr, “Untitled (Seascape)” (1935), oil on paper mounted on board, 26.5 x 40.5 cm (courtesy the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria) TORONTO — In the discussion around underrepresented female ...

95.9 x 32.4 cm. (37.8 x 12.8 in.) Marius Barbeau, "Totem Poles of the Gitskan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia", Ottawa, 1929, page 77, see page 235, plate XIII, figure 3, "Pole of Harhu, at ...

A colorful exhibition of surrealist artworks layered with personal and cultural symbolism, “How to Bear the Unbearable Body: The Artwork of Emily Orling,” is up at the A.P.E. Gallery in Northampton ...

PORT ANGELES — After a 1,700-mile journey around the Pacific Northwest, a totem pole has reached its final destination. The “Bear-Becomes-Person” transformation totem pole arrived at the Elwha Tribal ...

Haida master carver Lee Wallace and his apprentices were working in Wallace’s Saxman home carving shed on Aug. 18, filling the air with the scent of red cedar shavings and an aura of joyful creativity ...

Master Kwakiutl carver Henry Eugene Hunt was commissioned by Walter and Leonore Annenberg to create a 30-foot tall cedar wood totem pole for the grounds at Sunnylands in 1972. But Hunt's family had ...

President Trump on Tuesday quipped that bringing an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine would help him get into heaven, joking that he heard he’s “at the bottom of the totem pole.” Trump called ...

One side pulls while the other side is told to hold tension in the line. Men grunt and struggle as they push against the large pole while men and women pull on the lines, all working together to ...

To peer into one of Emily Boyd's paintings is to be pulled into it -- first by color, then by texture and patterns, and lastly, by the magnitude of time itself. Mason Edwards is the breaking news ...