CASCADE -- An ancient native American art form is thriving in Cascade and people from around the world travel to the small town to learn how to tell stories in wood. Head up Highway 55 and you will ...

Nicholas Galanin and Gordon Greenwald will lead the carving of two additional totem poles for Juneau’s Kootéeyaa Deiyí, or Totem Pole Trail. Galanin, based in Sitka, and Greenwald, a Hoonah resident, ...

In a spacious garage-turned-work studio on Vashon Island, where the music of Los Lobos mixes with the tap-tap-tap of chisel on wood, master carver Israel Shotridge is putting the finishing touches on ...

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 ...

When Chuck Deffes’ shop class carved a totem poles a few years back, his goal was unifying a class of at-risk students. The 48-year-old Mount Dora artist might have carved a niche for himself as well.

In 1972, Walter Annenberg read an article in Natural History magazine about an exhibit called “Out of the Silence” at the Amon Carter Museum of Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The exhibit featured ...

Victoria, Canada — A spectacular array of totem poles greeted me as I stepped from the bus at Thunderbird Park, a prime tourist attraction in downtown Victoria. Not far away, at the Royal British ...

Seattle is a city of totem poles: Carved figures glower, stand watch, warn, scold, honor and mourn on poles raised in parks, city squares, museums and shop fronts all over town. Now a new pole, ...

A 10-foot-tall carving of a wolf used to mark the grave of Alvin August Casimir in the Lummi Cemetery. Today there’s a hole in the ground. In tribal tradition, the dead come out to walk at night, says ...

Totem poles are among the most recognisable and striking forms of Indigenous art in North America. Carved from massive cedar trees, they stand tall as storytellers, cultural markers, and artistic ...