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Susan Point RCA (born 1952 [1]) is a Musqueam Coast Salish artist from Canada, who works in the Coast Salish tradition. [2] Her sculpture, prints [ 3 ] and public art [ 4 ] works include pieces installed at the Vancouver International Airport , the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., Stanley Park in Vancouver ...
Susan A. Point is a Coast Salish artist from Musqueam, a First Nation in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Coast Salish artist Susan Point was born in British Columbia, on April 5, 1952. Since birth Susan has lived on the Musqueam First Nation Reservation in Vancouver, B.C. Susan began her art career in 1981 with engravings on bracelets, rings, pendants, earrings and barrettes.
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- Early Career
- Coast Salish Artistic Traditions
- Key Influences
- Notable Commissions
- Major Exhibitions and Publications
- Honours and Legacy
- Awards
Susan Point began her artistic career creating jewellery, using Northwest Coast artistic forms inspired by the Northern formline style. While on maternity leave from her job as a legal secretary, she took a jewellery-making course in 1981 that was offered to First Nations students by Vancouver Community College. According to Point, her use of Nort...
Despite the skill and creativity evident in Point’s early prints, art collectors and galleries did not immediately take to her work. This can be attributed in some part to the highly private and sacred nature of traditional Coast Salish art forms. Historically, Coast Salish peoples were unwilling to part with the objects they created, nor was it co...
Point’s artworks often incorporate motifs related to traditional Coast Salish arts associated with women’s work. These motifs include symbols used in Salish weavingproduced by women and designs carved on traditional women’s utensils, such as the spindle whorl. Point has frequently used the spindle whorl in her artwork, from her limited edition prin...
Point continues to release several limited edition prints every year, and has remarked that she thinks prints are her most important works. However, she is perhaps best known for her many monumental public art commissions that draw on traditional Coast Salish imagery while employing a range of non-traditional materials such as cast iron, stainless ...
Point’s work has been included in a range of group exhibitions since the early 1980s, as well as several solo exhibitions. Her first exhibition, Art of the Northwest Coast, took place in 1982 at the London Regional Art Gallery in London, Ontario. New Visions: Serigraphs by Susan A. Point, Coast Salish Artist was organized by the University of Briti...
Point is widely recognized as an important influence on the next generation of Northwest Coast artists, particularly women. When she began her career as a professional artist, the world of Northwest Coast art was largely male dominated. Point has received many honours and accolades, including four honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees. Her large car...
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Victoria(2000)Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of British Columbia(2000)National Aboriginal Achievement Award (2004)Lifetime member, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (2004)14. März 2017 · Musqueam artist Susan Point’s work is deeply rooted in her Coast Salish roots. But she is equally dedicated to a contemporary practice using traditional methods, symbols and iconology. The spindle whorl is particularly prominent in her work.
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SUSAN A. POINT O.C., DFA., RCA., D.Litt. (1952–) is a descendant of the Musqueam people; she is the daughter of Edna Grant and Anthony Point. Susan inherited the values of her culture and traditions of her people by her mother Edna– who learned by her mother, Mary Charlie-Grant.
18. Feb. 2017 · Over the past three and a half decades, Musqueam artist Susan Point has received wide acclaim for her accomplished and remarkably wide-ranging oeuvre that forcefully asserts the vitality of Coast Salish culture, both past and present.
