Press Releases

Articles and features about MNY from external news outlets.

Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art and the Seriousness of Play

“Levell holds Yahgulanaas up as a modern artist who draws on his Indigenous heritage and various other influences. This reality—evident in the artist’s work itself—effectively frees Yahgulanaas from the settler-modern/Indigenous-traditional binary that frequently haunts Indigenous artists and their creations.”

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Haida manga: An artist embraces tragedy, beautifully

Yahgulanaas takes his experimentation and genre mixing to a new level, using curved formlines as outlines for his panels. This means that, according to the conventions of Pacific Northwest coastal art, the negative spaces created by the figurative black lines become positive spaces where the action takes place and the characters move.

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