Musqueam artist Susan Point opens show at VAG

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http://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/susan-point-pioneering-indigenous-artist-gets-first-solo-show-at-vancouver-art-gallery

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Point's career has been one of not only rediscovering what had been lost, but also making her own contemporary contribution to Coast Salish culture.

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Ian Thom, the VAG's senior curator—historical and co-curator of the exhibition with Audain curator of B.C. art Grant Arnold, said that before Point, no one else was producing modern Coast Salish art.

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"This is a fundamentally important point in the history of modern Coast Salish art movement," he said referring to the print Salmon during a media preview Thursday.

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"Not only (is she) a great pioneer. She's doing work that in traditional First Nations culture is reserved for men, not women."

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