Learning to Carve Argillite

About Robert DavidsonSara Florence Davidson

Sara Florence Davidson (she/her) is a Haida/Settler Assistant Professor in Indigenous Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. Previously she was an educator working with adolescents in the K-12 system in British Columbia and Yukon Territory. Sara is the co-author of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning through Ceremony­ which she wrote with her father and Magical Beings of Haida Gwaii which she wrote with her stepmother Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson. When she is not reading or writing Sara can be found walking with her dog drinking tea or listening to stories and learning something new. Robert Davidson is one of the most respected and important contemporary artists in Canada. A Northwest Coast native of Haida descent he is a master carver of totem poles and masks and works in a variety of other media as a printmaker painter and jeweller. A leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art and culture Robert is best known as an impeccable craftsman whose creative and personal interpretation of traditional Haida form is unparalleled. He has also been recognized with many awards including being named an Officer to the Order of Canada. Janine Gibbons a Haida Raven of the Double-Fin Killer Whale Clan Brown Bear House is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning illustrator. Janines works are inspired by the waters and lands of the Pacific Northwest and their myriad colours energies and languages. Janine graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle and Fort Lewis College in Durango Colorado. Janine has illustrated four books in the Sealaska Heritages Baby Raven Reads series including Raven Makes the Aleutians an AIYLA Honor Book and most recently Nang Jáadaa Sgáana Láanaa aa Isdáayaan (The Woman Carried Away by Killer Whales) which is entirely in the Haida language Xaad Kíl.