The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

Sarah Bowman of Nature's Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. Sarah Bowman of Nature's Canvas creates works of art by recycling materials from nature. She takes us through ...

Students at Winnipeg's Oakenwald School literally sank their teeth into learning about Indigenous tradition this week, as Cree artist Pat Bruderer spent three days showing kindergarten to Grade 6 ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

Pat Kruse is a birchbark artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Pat Kruse is a birchbark and quill artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Working with ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 107 (Sale info: $35.00). Louisville Industrial Exposition Catalogue of Paintings, Natural History, and Ladies' Department. 1875. Louisville: Published by ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 61 (Sale info: $40.00). [Exhibited under heading: "Water Colors."] Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings. Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. June McCallum-Gareau ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

"Before I create a work of art, I sense the potential for finding 'mountains' and 'rivers' on the bark," says Tao, adding that every piece of birch tells a story and inspires her creativity. To ...