The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

correction A photo credit for an image in this story has been changed to John Michael Spencer. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, just after the snow melts but before flowers start to bud, Pat Bruderer, 67 ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

Students at Winnipeg's Oakenwald School literally sank their teeth into learning about Indigenous tradition this week, as Cree artist Pat Bruderer spent three days showing kindergarten to Grade 6 ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

June McCallum-Gareau says when she sits down to make traditional art it's therapeutic. The residential school survivor and cancer survivor is showcasing her first exhibit of birch bark biting and ...

Pat Kruse is a birchbark artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Pat Kruse is a birchbark and quill artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Working with ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 93 (Sale info: $100.00). Catalogue of the Sixth Exhibition of Paintings, now open by the Utica Art Association, (Incorporated January, 1866.) at Carton Hall, ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 61 (Sale info: $40.00). [Exhibited under heading: "Water Colors."] Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings. Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of ...

'Beresta' is a well-known Russian craft inspired by the birch tree. Exhibition of the unique Russian craft using birch bark, called Beresta, showcases everything from 3D paintings to utensils 'Beresta ...

Tao says students majoring in fine arts and crafts have a solid art foundation which helps them understand the essence of craftsmanship. The introduction of the traditional craft has inspired the ...