Ernest Skillaw Edenso Swanson is a Haida Artist born in King County, WA. 1981.  Raised on Haida Gwaii, Ernest is a matrilineal descendent of Charles Edenshaw, and grandson to the late Rufus Moody. Ernest has studied with Jim McGuire, Christian White, Jim Hart, and Dan Wallace and has completed two design courses with Robert Davidson.

In 2005, Ernest had earned the Emerging Artist award from British Columbia’s Alliance of Arts and Culture presented by Robert Davidson, recipient of the award in Visual Arts.Ernest Swanson and Tyson Brown assisted Jim Hart on the carving of the Celebration of Bill Reid pole which was raised February 21, 2009 at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art…[read more]

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