Visual Artists

YFN2010 is proud to showcase ten of Yukon’s most accomplished visual artists and fine crafts people who will take part in full schedule of events where they will share their creativity and traditional skills with the Olympic Audience. The collection of work presented and available for sale will include one of a kind wood and antler carvings, masks, beaded home tanned hide products, moose hair tuftings, raven’s tail weaving, prints, paintings and more!

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Visual Artist to be Showcased at the Inuit Gallery

New Traditions: Yukon First Nations resonates with history and proud tradition.

The work of Eugene Alfred, Ken Ingemund Anderson, Vernon Asp, Christine Peters and Dennis Shorty represents the wealth of traditional and contemporary carving that has become synonymous with Yukon First Nations.  Alongside their carved paddles, totems, rattles, and bowls are examples of the exquisite beadwork, moose hair tufting, button blankets and Raven’s Tail weaving created by Shirlee Frost, Twyla Wheeler, Nancy Hager, Bev Morris and Ann Smith.  The bountiful, quiet and resplendent beauty found in the many artworks that make up New Traditions is further enlivened by the images of ceremony and daily life as depicted by painter Jean Taylor. Taylor’s paintings are, in a sense, a visual chronicle of the history and tradition that underlies the artwork of her peers.