| College forms art institute
In honour of F Freda Diesing

By DUSTIN QUEZADA’ .
NORTHWEST.
College:

(NWCC) will offer a unique:
art program beginning ‘this. “
fall that focuses on First
. Nations art of the Northwest. *
_‘and it will be named after a _

COMMUNITY. -

pioneer in the field. ;
‘College president Steph-

_ anie Forsyth annouiced last
week the September 2006 ~
launch of the Freda Diesing _

_ School of Art and Design.

; brewing for years.

., "When Freda passed ‘on, 1
‘ we wanted to honour her, we “I
, just didn’t know the channel.

to pursue,” Forsyth said.

' Forsyth says she was put
_ incontact with Diesing’s sis-
« ter, Roberta Perry, who gave §
the college permission to use ©

~” the late artist’s name.

~. -+ “We are honoured to rec-. -.
* ognize and continue: Freda’s
legacy tothe art world by .~

. establishing a school in her. -

name,” added Forsyth.”

*. For. Perry, visibly emo-, .
« tional throughout the cer-"

. emony it- was an easy ei . NORTHWEST Community: College president Stephanie Forsyth (far right) announced the launch of the Freda’ .
- Diesing School of Art and Design. She’s joined-here (from left) by artist Stan-Bevan, Diesing’s niece Barbara.
Wallington, artist Dempsey Bob and Diesing’s sister Roberta Perry. The framed photo i is of the late Diesing, who .

had a prolific career as an artist even though she only started at age 42."

sion.

“my. blessing),” said ‘Perry.
“She deserves to have her

name and art kept alive-she
themselves.

would have wanted it.”

Perry added: her sister’s

main. ambition was to keep

the heritage of First Nations.

alive. through her. carving
* and teaching.

., Diesing -taught a. num

.. ber of prominent ‘artists in
the 1970s and ‘80s in Ha-
‘zelton including Tsimshian

; Dempsey Bob.

- is immeasurable.

“This has been a dream
for us,” said Bob, who went
on to teach with Diesing for
several years. “We never had

-@ school — Freda was our
school.” ° :

, Bob says without a rec-
ognized . institution, reviv-
‘ing - and maintaining First

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__ Forsyth says the idea of
¢. an art program specializing ”.
‘in First Nations art has been”

“| didn’ t hesitate (to give

Bob says the importance .
of the school’s establishment

Nations art fell to the artists .

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- DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO '.

~ “We wanted to revive the

art so it wouldn’t die.” Bob

« Said. “We were holding on to ~
our culture by a thread and

* Freda was the thread.

“If you don’ t teach, where
are you going’ to find the

next Freda Diesing, the next -
(Haida artist) Bill: Reid?” ms
said Bob. “You don’t know: ‘»

who will be artists.”

Bob, his nephew ‘and col-

Jeague Stan Bevan (Tahltan/

~ Tsimshian) and Ken McNeil
_(Tahltan/Tlingit/Nisga’ a)
were presented as advisors

and part-time instructors for
the art and design school. -

Rocque Berthiaume, a _

lecturer at the University of
Northern: British Columbia

‘(UNBC).and NWCC will be

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| Original. art community, as
well as having the. privi-.
“‘Jege of working’ with Freda

‘designing the school’s ¢ cur-
- riculum, says Forsyth:

‘ “Rocque._ has. extensive |

“ experience working” in thé ©

local and ‘international: ab-"-

Diesing herself," ” said: the:
college head. :

include programs at the cer-

The college is working
with Vancouver-based Em-
ily Carr Institute of Art and:
Design to offer a four-year
art program, which will be

. part of the school’s offerings

and will be distinct in its fo-_
cus on First Nations art of .

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The school’s offering Wills.

- northwestern B. C.

. Previously offered’ carv-..

‘ing and jewelry courses at
the college will now be of-

- fered through the art and de>
~sign’school. :

. Diesing, born ‘in "Prince

Rupert in 1925 to a‘Haida ©

-mother:and Swedish father,

"began her career as a carver’

when she was 42. -She con-.

: tributed: many of her, works
* tificate, diploma and degree —

‘level .and will initially. fea-.
‘ture carving, weaving, jew-
“elry and print making.

SOMEONE rummaged
through ‘or entered several
vehicles in the west end of
the Horseshoe overnight
Feb. 9. \

The thief, or thieves, stole

‘loose items in vehicles along. .
‘Pheasant St.,

Thomas St,

DON

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sto ‘the communities of Ter-

race,.-Prince Rupert’ and
Kitimat, including . totem —
poles .at Kitsumkalum and ~
the RCMP detachment here.

Before her death in 2002. [.
in a car accident, she was .
given an honorary diploma :

from . NWCC, an honor-

ary» ‘doctorate from UNBC |

and. a National: APoriginal
Achievement Award. oe

Vehicles looted.

Walsh Ave., Scott Ave. and
McRae Crescent.

Local RCMP caught a
19-year-old: male. and 16-

year-old male, both .from ©
prowling around;

” ‘Terrace,
“Vehicles. Police continue to’ -
investigate.

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