My awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community has changed a lot. When I first saw Coast Salish Art, I thought it was just a simple picture. But, as I went through the past two assignments, I learned that it is more than that. First, I learned that the animals in the art have different meanings. For example, snake has a meaning of transmutation, and beaver has a meaning of builder. Second, I learned the meanings of the shapes in the animals. Circle, for example, represents cycles, Sun, and Moon....

How has your awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed? Be specific and give at least one example. My last school used to teach us how to do Musqueam native art. Learning how to do Coast Salish art was such a fun experience because I got to learn what each shape means and represents. I can try to understand the way they think because of the type of art style they can do. My changed because I can really see how school districts are trying to show and preach how indigenous culture....

Coast Salish Art Reflection a. How has your awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed? Be specific and give at least one example.   So far, before this lesson, I had been unaware of any of the substantial differences in Indigenous art pieces. To me, everything of this art style had amounted to a formation of shapes placed smart ways for the end result to form what I viewed as something relatively abstract. All of it looked the same to me. I was wrong, however. To start, the shapes used in Coast Salish arts were different with the consideration of, for example, Northwest Coast art. From a glance, the fact that Northwest Coast artworks are imbued with ovoids while Coast Salish are made up of mix of trigons, circles, crescents, and extended crescents, to name but a few, seems like a nominal observed distinction. This is untrue. It also has to be mentioned that other than the shapes, the style differs between the two greatly. It seems to me that Coast Salish art is, to an extent, far minimalist and straightforward. On the contrary, Northwest Coast art is more codified and abstract and detail intensive. This DL session taught and substantiated to me the distinctions between the many Indigenous art styles. -Eunyul Kim ...

How has your awareness of Coast Salish Art in our community changed? Be specific and give at least one example. My awareness of Coast Salish art in our community changed by thinking about the topic differently, I recognize that more things/stuff are linked to Indigenous peoples and their wide spread of art. I recognized that many symbol's in nature are linked to the Indigenous community such as a totem pole like the one at Poirier behind the tennis courts.  ...

While working on this piece I learned a lot about the traditional art and meanings of the Coast Salish peoples. I found that this art really broadened my awareness and understanding of the tribes around us. I really enjoyed the minimalistic yet eye catching style of the art while still holding a deep meaning. The reason I chose the raven is because my indigenous spirit animal is the raven, although the region i am from is different from Coast Salish the animals and their meanings are very similar.

Assignment 4A_ Coast Salish Art Info Session (1) Like this art inspired by the appearance of animals in nature, the more I understand of these animals, like its character or its habit, more I can add finer details with different shapes of different sizes. And each of the shapes has their own meaning so it will be made into a better work.