Professor of Alaska Native Languages and Tlingit formline artist Xh’unei Lance Twitchell answered these questions at the Art of Place series on Friday, Feb. 9 at the University of Alaska Southeast.

In Northwest Coast native society, art also substituted for written language. Images declared status and served as self-help manuals of spiritual beliefs and moral lessons. Once its two ...

Formline follows function: New ambulance art reaches to cultural roots, fits vehicle’s purpose. The design, which cost taxpayers nothing, were created by Southeast artists.

Crystal Worl's design, featuring a formline salmon painted on a skateboard, will be available on postal stamps in March. There’s another USPS stamp coming out featuring Lingít formline art ...

Infrared photography reveals centuries-old formline paintings on Lingít bentwood boxes ... I mean, there’s Lingít art from this valley in Russia and Germany and all over,” James said.

Growing up in southeast Alaska, Tlingit (Eagle/Kaagwaantaan) artist Jennifer Younger was exposed early on to Northwest Coast formline art—which often depicts objects and animals and makes use of ...

From formline art to regalia, these are some of the ideas Indigenous people had this Halloween Ka’nhehsí:io Deer · CBC News · Posted: Oct 31, 2020 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 31, 2020 ...