Mother Bear Fishing

Mother Bear With Fish

Mother Bear With Fish

I am winding down my summer printing at Alaska Indians Arts and actually got a lot of work done. In eight weeks I printed nine editions; one a John Hagen design for Alaska Indian Arts, two for Wrangell, Alaska artist Allie High and six for Seattle glass artist Preston Singletary. I drove out to Chillkoot Lake one day and caught this amazing photo of a mother bear in the middle of the Chillkoot River with a big Sockeye salmon in her mouth. She was taking it to her two cubs who were in the bushes on the riverbank.

Northwest Coast Printing

Haines Print Studio

Haines Print Studio

I have been coming to Haines, Alaska in the summer for 18 years to make limited edition serigraphs for Native Americans. Before Alaska I was printing Native Artwork in Seattle and have been doing this work off and on for more than 30 years. The entire process is done by hand, hand-cut stencils and hand printing. My studio is located in the Alaska Indian Arts Building at Fort Seward in Haines.