Northwest Coast is a publication series edited by Dana Claxton. Collectively, the series highlights the Northwest Coast region as a place in common that underlines the development and thrivance of the contemporary creative practices of five Indigenous women. Each book features a single text by a Northwest Coast First Nations artist in which they reflect on the sociopolitical context for their contemporary art practices and engagement with traditional Indigenous Northwest Coast visual culture. As Dana Claxton notes in her foreword to the texts, “It is my hope that the words and art in these precious volumes contribute to critical consciousness and justice for Indigenous People.”
Northwest Coast #4 features Marika Swan.
Marika Echachis Swan is a mother, artist, and community arts organizer of Tla-o-qui-aht (Nuu-chah-nulth), Scottish and Irish descent. She explores feminist Nuu-chah-nulth values through woodblock printmaking. Swan has also developed The Nuu-chah-nulth Living Archive, a community led research project which locates and documents Nuu-chah-nulth ancestral belongings and materials held in institutions and private collections around the world.
Softcover, edition of 200.