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Get inspired by these amazing works of art! All photographs are taken
from the book Dream Catchers: Legend, Lore and Artifacts by Cath Oberholtzer. Many of the dream
catchers are made my Nick Huard. A short biography is written below the slide show.
from the book Dream Catchers: Legend, Lore and Artifacts by Cath Oberholtzer. Many of the dream
catchers are made my Nick Huard. A short biography is written below the slide show.
About the Artist
Many of the dream catchers pictured in the book were created by artist Nick Huard, who now resides in Kahnawake, outside of Montreal, Quebec. Born in Restigouche to the Bear Clan, Huard spent his childhood on the Mi'kmaq reservations on Gaspèspie. Following years of residential schooling, he attended Collège Bourget in Rigaud, Quebec. Since 1988, he has worked as a documentary filmmaker. He has also worked as a photographer, a train conductor and a song technician for CBS, CBC/Radio-Canada, TSN and NBC. Huard inherited a deep respect for his culture and the environment from his grandfather, a saddler and shoemaker, and his father , a master cabinet maker. He has been making dream catchers since 1990 and has a permanent exhibit at the Red Cedar Gallery in Montreal. His dream catchers are also available at the McCord Museum Boutique in Montreal and the Galerie St-Merri in Paris. Huard is a member of the Conseil de la Scuplture du Quèbec.
Huard finds his dream catcher materials in his own backyard, so to speak, but he also gathers stones, feather, beaks, antlers, and animal skulls, both small and large, on more wide-ranging journeys across the continent. In an eloquent testament to the artist's reverence for the natural world, every piece is recovered from nature and recycled. Whether he is interpreting the calamitous consequences for the caribou after the Hydro-Quèbec's flooding of the La Grande Rivière as he does in The Little Girl of Kanaaupscow (page 44), or nature's cycle of life, Huard honors the wild animals that are part of his world. No creature has been killed or mutilated to appear in his art (Oberholtzer, 2012, pg.131).
Huard finds his dream catcher materials in his own backyard, so to speak, but he also gathers stones, feather, beaks, antlers, and animal skulls, both small and large, on more wide-ranging journeys across the continent. In an eloquent testament to the artist's reverence for the natural world, every piece is recovered from nature and recycled. Whether he is interpreting the calamitous consequences for the caribou after the Hydro-Quèbec's flooding of the La Grande Rivière as he does in The Little Girl of Kanaaupscow (page 44), or nature's cycle of life, Huard honors the wild animals that are part of his world. No creature has been killed or mutilated to appear in his art (Oberholtzer, 2012, pg.131).