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 ...

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 ...

Yard art is the bright spot in many a drab lawn, but in New Orleans it goes beyond the standard gnomes, concrete geese or plastic flamingos. Here, it's all about making a statement, which is exactly ...

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 ...

“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,” ...

Beer pairings usually pull meat, cheese or some other foodstuff into partnership with the brew, but the Muddy Waters Clay Center took the pairing concept in a more artistic direction. The nonprofit ...

Steeped in Native American tradition, Jon Zimmer’s 14-foot cedar totem tells a story tinged with mysticism, memory, temptation, sorrow and ultimately, peace. Facing a deadline, Zimmer clocks the hours ...

Marcel Fournet used to work out his designs on paper, loosely sketching them and knowing the end result would stand in perfect symmetry. But Fournet liked the balance he found in the asymmetry of free ...

David Boxley had to learn the craft of totem pole carving by visiting examples in museums and studying the ancient designs World renowned artist David Boxley and his son are carving a Tsimshian ...