In January in our Indigenous Education program we have been exploring the work of different Pacific Northwest artists such as: Bill Reid, Don Yeomans, Freda Diesing, Mark Preston and Andy Everson. Students have learned about the history of the Pacific Northwest art style (creation story of the animal people, making the supernatural world visible), the principles of the design and the traditional shapes that are used (ovoid, u-shape, split u, t-shapes, s-shape) and the meaning of the wolf in Pacific Northwest stories. Depending on the age of the class, students have been able to try a directed drawing of either an orca fin or a wolf head in the Pacific Northwest art style. This wolf art is from a tutorial called “How to Draw a Wolf Head” and is based on an excerpt from: Learning by Designing Pacific Northwest Coast Native Indian Art, Vol.1 by Jim Gilbert and Karin Clark. Take a look at some of the beautiful art that was created!