The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

Students at Winnipeg's Oakenwald School literally sank their teeth into learning about Indigenous tradition this week, as Cree artist Pat Bruderer spent three days showing kindergarten to Grade 6 ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

Growing up in South Korea, Sophia Kim would walk by a long row of birch trees on her way to school that still sticks with her today. “I was mesmerized by them: they seemed to talk to me,” says the now ...

Pat Kruse is a birchbark artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Pat Kruse is a birchbark and quill artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Working with ...

Angelique Merasty Levac, left, and her granddaughter, Mercedez Angelique Levac, show off some of their birch bark biting art — and Levac's granddaughter, whom she calls A chance encounter with a ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 107 (Sale info: $35.00). Louisville Industrial Exposition Catalogue of Paintings, Natural History, and Ladies' Department. 1875. Louisville: Published by ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 61 (Sale info: $40.00). [Exhibited under heading: "Water Colors."] Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings. Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of ...

"Before I create a work of art, I sense the potential for finding 'mountains' and 'rivers' on the bark," says Tao, adding that every piece of birch tells a story and inspires her creativity. To ...