Artist Talk with Ariane Xay Kuyaas’ and Caitlin Aleck, Te-awk-tenaw

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 — 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Museum of Vancouver
Related residency: Ariane Xay Kuyaas’
In partnership with FLEET Mobile Artist Studios and Museum of Vancouver, Ariane presented her work at an artist talk.
Ariane Xay Kuyaas’ is an artist who has studied and practiced ancestral style Haida weaving for most of her life, and comes from a long line of world-renowned Haida spruce root hat and basket weavers. Growing up at Old Massett village on Haida Gwaii where she still lives, she was mentored by her aunt Isabel Rorick and has studied work by her great great grandmother Isabella Edenshaw and great grandmother Florence Davidson in museum collections