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Three exhibitions offer a conversation about native creativity, its history, its extraordinary media, and the contemporary artists in the Northwest who continue to honor and alter it.
Thanks No Tanks an art exhibition in Haida Gwaii, BC, protests plans for oil tankers of tar sands to pass through Hecate Straits. The Haida are protesting with body, mind and spirit. The coastal ecology is the same as Puget Sound, where the tankers are also proposed to pass by.