Connecting to the Art Market from Home: An Exploration of First Nations Artists in Alert Bay, British Columbia

• Main Author: Neufeld, Margaret
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2009
• Subjects: economic markets; local and nonlocal art market connection; ceremonial objects; market commodities; artistic expression; Myers; First Nations
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p44w4j8

Historically, Northwest Coast First Nations artists have been active participants in local and external economic markets. In Alert Bay, British Columbia, home of the ‘Namgis People of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation, artists have sold their work in urban centers since the 1950s. Now they are more rigorousl...