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Terrace spawns new salmon art festival

This week’s featured artist: Casey Braam
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Painter Casey Braam works on a piece selected for the The Skeena Salmon Art Fest. The underwater scene depicting chum salmon in their natural habitat is a collaborative effort with artist Roderick Brown who is supplying wood-carving reliefs that will adorn the canvas. The art festival will showcase the works of many artists at the Terrace Art Gallery throughout the month of August. Following the widespread salmon fishery closures along the Skeena and Nass Rivers, organizers said this exhibit will provide a way for people to express their strong admiration for the fish through artistic expression.

Each week until the end of August the Terrace Standard will be showcasing a contributing artist to the Skeena Salmon Art Festival at the Terrace Art Gallery. Following the widespread salmon fishery closures along the Skeena and Nass Rivers, organizers hope the exhibit will provide a way for people to express their strong admiration for the fish through artistic expression.

In this feature series the artists will share their thoughts on the subject in their own words.

READ MORE: Skeena Salmon Art Fest kicks off Aug. 3

This week’s artist, Casey Braam:

“Skeena Salmon, if you are in any way involved in the fishing community or in fact the community that calls the Skeena home you know the battles we all face, to do what we think is right with ‘our’ fish. But I hope that the Skeena Salmon art fest lets us step back from our battles, from our differences in opinion, and lets us celebrate these beautiful fish and the watershed they provide for. The works I create are most often inspired directly by a life of experiences here in this amazing valley and the many that intersect it. By canvas and paper I hope to inspire a passion to explore, engage with, and take care of the awesome wild that surrounds us.

“Already completed, I am happy to have worked with The Greater Terrace Beautification Society to produce the first Skeena Salmon Art Festival mural on Kalum street and am looking forward to seeing more murals and sculptures happening as part of this celebration. Lets see this community come together and make this festival something special, celebrate with the artists of the Skeena.”


 


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