Welcome Dancer by Joe David, Nuu-Chah-Nulth Nation

Welcome Dancer, 1975by Joe David, Nuu-Chah-Nulth NationSilkscreen, Edition of 19519" high x 23" wide framed Joe David (born May 30, 1946) is a Canadian-born artist, a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht Band of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, also formally "adopted" into the Haida people, whose work is identified with the modern Northwest Coast art movement. He was greatly influenced by teacher and art historian Bill Holm, Duane Pasco and Frank Charlie (with whom he apprenticed), and his cousin Ron Hamilton. He is also a singer of traditional Nuu-chah-nulth songs, and has a strong interest in shamanic traditions, both those from his own culture and from others. David was born in the Clayoquot village of Opitsat (on Meares Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island) and grew up in Seattle, Washington. His father, Hyacinth David gave him a strong grounding in his cultural heritage. He studied art in the Job Corps, attended art school in Markos, Texas and Seattle, and worked briefly as a commercial