TONY HUNT
Panelist
Master Carver ~ Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
www.eaglefeathergallery.com
Tony Hunt is active both as an artist and hereditary chief of the Kwakiutl nation, work which he sees as intertwined. His celebrated artistic family is distinguished for keeping traditions alive during the arduous period in which the potlatch was outlawed by the Canadian government. With his father Henry, Hunt apprenticed with Mungo Martin at Royal British Columbia Museum's Thunderbird Park from 1952 to 1962. He then followed his father to the British Columbia Provincial Museum, leaving in 1970 to establish the gallery The Arts of the Raven, in Victoria, British Columbia, where he implemented an extensive apprenticeship programme. Hunt also helped pioneer non-traditional forms of silkscreen printing, but it is his remarkable carving technique which has garnered numerous international commissions for totem poles. Hunt instructs at the Kitanmax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art in Ksan, British Columbia.
