Search results for: “Bentwood Box Auction”
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Lattimer Gallery 2021 Bentwood Box Auction
For the past fourteen years Lattimer Gallery has organized an event to help support the Urban Native Youth Association, a Vancouver organization which has been providing prevention-focused programs and services to Native youth since 1988. UNYA’s work includes advocacy, community development, and providing youth with meaningful opportunities to provide input into their programs and services.…
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Bentwood Box Auction 2020
This annual charity auction supports some of our most underfunded programs, ensuring that we are able to continue providing opportunities and support to Indigenous youth! Lattimer Gallery is once again partnering with Indigenous artists from across BC to raise money for UNYA’s current programming, as well as contributing to making our planned Native Youth Centre a reality. These funds go to…
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Bentwood Box Auction 2019
Lattimer Gallery is once again partnering with Indigenous artists from across BC to raise money for UNYA’s current programming, as well as contributing to making the planned Native Youth Centre a reality. Lattimer Gallery is once again partnering with Indigenous artists from across BC to raise money for UNYA’s current programming, as well as contributing to making our…
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Bentwood Box Charity Auction
Art That Makes a Difference Eighteen years ago, Indigenous art gallery owner Peter Lattimer began a humble journey to bring together BC Indigenous artists to create bentwood box artwork. What started as a small vision has since grown into the Bentwood Box Charity Auction—an annual live auction event that is now vibrant and highly anticipated,…
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Charity Bentwood Boxes Annual Event
Art With Purpose.Stories with Power. On December 6, 2025, Lattimer Gallery will Host the Annual Charity Bentwood Boxes event at the Museum of Vancouver—an extraordinary evening where Indigenous artists, donors, and community partners come together to uplift the Urban Native Youth Association (UNYA) and the 24,000 Indigenous youth we connect with across Metro Vancouver each…
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Youth Box Fundraiser
MAKE A REAL IMPACT: Uplift Indigenous Youth and Shape the Future Bentwood boxes are a time-honored tradition of the Northwest Coast First Nations peoples of British Columbia. Crafted with deep cultural significance, these boxes have been used for a variety of purposes — from ancestral burial boxes to storage for clothing, household items, and even…
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Atheana Picha (Kwantlen)
“Portal” I read somewhere “The veil thins at the loom” and thought about how special my loom is to me when it is warped up. It feels like a place between worlds where I can connect with weavers from thousands of years before me as I twist fibres together and weave them into something reborn,…
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Steve Smith (Wuikinuxv/Kwakwaka’wakw)
“Shifter of Shapes” Sometimes a transformation can be so profoundly complete it becomes unrecognizable. Is the box the Raven or did the Raven turn into the box? Both are and always have been one. Back to Bentwood Box Auction 2025
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Phil Gray (Ts’msyen/Cree)
“awta: buyer beware” This is a visual representation of my current emotional availability. Back to Bentwood Box Auction 2025
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KC Hall (Heiltsuk) and Copper Canoe Woman (Nuu-chah-nulth/Heiltsuk)
“The Echo Box” This piece is my vision of a vessel; a place where the real songs of our people and the deep stories of the past are held. That formline figure isn’t just sitting there. It’s alive. Its mouth is open, releasing that ancestral energy, that echo. The abalone inlay – that’s the spirit,…