Robert Davidson
“The role of the artist, I feel, is a historian,” says Robert Davidson in a video interview produced by the Canada Council when he won a 2010 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
A key figure in the renaissance of Haida art, Davidson is deeply committed to mentoring younger artists and sharing the history of his people’s artforms. Last year, for example, he hosted a Haida design workshop for youth in his home village on Haida Gwaii and worked with apprentice carvers in his studio in White Rock, BC.