National Gallery of Canada
In 2010, Salish Weave donated nine serigraphs by Susan Point to the National Gallery of Canada. The curators of Indigenous Art applied to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, a first experience for Salish Weave. The Board determined that the serigraphs met the criteria of “outstanding significance and national importance” as set out in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. We were delighted that serigraphs by Susan Point, the leading Coast Salish artist, were certified as cultural property.
In 2016, as part of our succession plan initiative, we donated 58 pieces to the National Gallery: 18 original works – sculptures and paintings – and 40 serigraphs. Among them is Susan Point’s Salish Weave, the signature piece after which the Salish Weave Collection was named. The nature of this largest-ever donation of art from Salish Weave prompted the gallery’s Indigenous Art senior curator to apply to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board. The Board members deemed this collection of works to be of “outstanding significance and national importance” and a Cultural Property Certificate was issued to the National Gallery of Canada. Salish Weave is proud that these contemporary Coast Salish pieces joined those of the Museum of Anthropology and the Legacy Art Galleries collections as part of Canada’s Heritage.
Two of these works, Salish Weave and The Circle Within are featured in People Among the People: The Public Art of Susan Point, a book authored by Robert D. Watt, and published by Figure 1 Publishing and MOA (Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia) in 2019.
Ancestral Guardian (T-Bird III)
Susan A. Point, 2002Carver’s Helper
John Marston, 2009Spirituality
Susan A. Point, 2009Flight
Maynard Johnny Jr., 2010Eagle Nest
Andy Everson, 2009CommuniTIES
lessLIE, 2010Eagle Nest Drum
Andy Everson, 2009Spiritual Transference
John Marston, 2010Wolf Headdress
John Marston, 2011Second Journey
Maynard Johnny Jr., 2011Thunderbird and Killerwhale Drum
Luke Marston, 2010tHEIRS
lessLIE, 2009Devotion
Susan A. Point, 2009Indian Summer (T-Bird VIII)
Susan A. Point, 2010Thunderbird and Killerwhale
Luke Marston, 2011Wolves
Maynard Johnny Jr., 1999Protecting Mother
Maynard Johnny Jr., 1998The First Carver
Stan Greene, 1993Mandala
Dylan Thomas, 2010Salish Community
lessLIE, 2007Salmon Headdress
John Marston, 2010