Tlingit master carver Wayne Price of Haines has joined the University of Alaska Southeast as an associate professor of the university’s Northwest Coast Arts program.
Price, a member of the Wooshkeetaan clan, has carved more than 30 traditional and non-traditional totems, as well as canoes and paddles, masks, boxes, drums and regalia for dance and ceremonies.
He has been carving since 1971 and has served as an apprentice under other master carvers and artists, including Ed Kasko, Leo Jacobs and John Hagen.
He is the owner of Silver Cloud Art Center in Haines and is a featured artist in the Egan Library Northwest Coast Art Collection at UAS.
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