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About Us
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The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is downtown Vancouver’s public art gallery named after the acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid (1920 – 1998). The Gallery is dedicated to understanding and appreciating contemporary Aboriginal art of the Northwest Coast of North America.  |
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The Bill Reid Foundation was established as a registered charity in 1999, its mission being to preserve the art and perpetuate the legacies of Bill Reid. The Foundation seeks to deepen appreciation of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art and work in partnership with the Haida, hosts Coast Salish Nations, and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultural and educational institutions. |
| About Bill Reid |
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Bill Reid, acclaimed Haida master artist, goldsmith, carver, sculptor, writer and spokesman, was born in 1920
in Victoria, BC. His mother, Sophie Gladstone, was Haida, and his father, William Ronald Reid, was a Scottish American from
Michigan. Bill Reid was in his teens before he became aware of his Haida heritage. |
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Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Art Studies at SFU |
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639 Hornby is also home to the Bill Reid Centre for Northwest Coast Studies at SFU. The role that Bill Reid played
in the revival of Northwest Coast Native art is recognized both nationally and internationally and has been well documented in
books and articles. His expertise was refined over fifty years during which he was closely associated with scholars like Wilson Duff,
Michael Kew, Bill Holm, Edmund Carpenter, Claude Levis-Strauss, and others. Reid also worked closely with museum curators in
American and Europe. |
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The Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art is proud to be affiliated with the Haida Heritage
Centre at Kaay Llnagaay in Skidegate on Haida Gwaii. This internationally significant showplace encompasses the
expanded and revamped Haida Gwaii Museum with its many exhibits, artifacts and audio-viduals, and as part of its
many features has a Carving Shed, Canoe House, and Bill Reid Teaching Centre. |
