Artist Feature: Christen Dokk Smith
November 27, 2021
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The forest runs deep in Christen Dokk Smith. In the suburb outside Oslo, Norway where he grew up, his house overlooked the forest. There is
The forest runs deep in Christen Dokk Smith. In the suburb outside Oslo, Norway where he grew up, his house overlooked the forest. There is
It’s market season on the coast of Vancouver Island and with that comes a common experience: getting home from your trip and wishing you had
When Robinson Cook arrived in Tofino in ‘91, the old growth cedars of Meares’ Island “radically changed his world.” That encounter sent him on a
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One of the biggest projects of its kind for the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages—a Language Revitalization Pole commissioned by the First Nations Education
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