Hyperallergic

The Monumental Totem Poles Built by a Retired Oklahoma Art Teacher

Ed Galloway’s Totem Pole Park in Foyil, Oklahoma (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) FOYIL, Okla. — In 1937, art teacher Ed Galloway began his retirement project: a 90-foot-tall totem pole ...

Indigenous inmates at Cedar Creek find healing through totem pole art

Al Smith, a 64-year-old carver serving time at the facility, helped establish what the staff say is likely the first program ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

The totem pole as art: How they came to be

FAIRBANKS - Few artworks of Native North American cultures inspire as much fascination as the totem poles carved by coastal peoples indigenous to the lands stretching from Seattle to the Alaska ...
CNN

Indigenous people are trekking across the US with a 25-foot totem pole. Here’s why

For the House of Tears Carvers, totem poles are more than masterful works of art – they’re a medium for storytelling, for raising consciousness, for healing. The group of artisans from the Lummi ...
dailyfreeman.com

Totem poles overcame misunderstandings about their purpose

The soaring native art form of the totem pole by North America’s first peoples may be found throughout the northwestern United States and Alaska, which will celebrate 50 years of statehood in 2009.
Juneau Empire

FDR’s New Deal helped preserve Alaska Native art, like these three totem poles in Juneau

Rural Tennessee has electricity for the same reason Southeast Alaska has totem parks — the New Deal. In order to help the nation recover from The Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ...
Juneau Empire

Southeast carvers will create two more totem poles for Juneau’s waterfront Kootéeyaa Deiyí

Nicholas Galanin and Gordon Greenwald will lead the carving of two additional totem poles for Juneau’s Kootéeyaa Deiyí, or Totem Pole Trail. Galanin, based in Sitka, and Greenwald, a Hoonah resident, ...
Duluth News Tribune

Totem pole carver died creating art she loved

Carl Muggli is determined to finish the totem pole that killed his wife before he leaves the Northland. Carl and Linda Muggli, married 24 years, carved totem poles most of that time and had become ...
Seattle Times

Book review: History of totem pole is a story of near-death and rebirth of an art form

“The totem pole,” Aldona Jonaitis and Aaron Glass write at the start of their new book, “is not all things to all people.” That may be an understatement. In “The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History,” ...
Fort Collins Coloradoan

Totem pole carving, painting on display at Streetmosphere

HalfMoon Arts, founded by Rose Moon, is a program that provides a safe and creative environment where youths can learn to express themselves in healthy ways while building confidence and learning life ...
The Washington Post

A 25-foot Native American totem pole arrives in D.C. after a journey to sacred lands across U.S.

[This story, originally published on July 29, was updated with information about the location of the totem pole in West Virginia.] Douglas James stood Thursday on the Mall in front of the 25-foot ...