Shoshone Moccasins, 1878, with seed beads decoration While traveling anywhere, but this time west through the state of Nevada, Owen and I like to check out local museums and I’m always on the search for trade bead collections whenever there’s a display about the Indians native to that area.  The Shoshone Indians ranged down into eastern ...

New Plate In Progress 'Norvin' Mezzotint Chris Nowicki is working on a new mezzotint ‘Norvin’, in his spare time, between teaching, setting up shows around the world and being a parent. Please visit his website for more information. ...

Fishing Platforms After our trip to Celilo Falls in search of Trade Bead paths Owen picked up the October edition of Cowboys & Indians Magazine and there was a wonderful article about Celilo Falls! It’s called “On the Rocks”, written by Bryson Liberty, an 83 yr. old Umatilla Indian who knows personally the story of Celilo ...

Celilo Falls Trade BeadsTrade Beads at a Major Fishing Spot Trade Beads and their history being such a major interest of mine led me to research Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, on the WA/OR border. Owen and I had an opportunity to once again visit the Maryhill Museum Site on the Columbia River located high ...

John Hagan, Raven Tribal House Front Artist and printmaker Chris Nowicki travels from his home in Wroclaw Poland each summer to create limited edition serigraphs for Northwest Coast Style artists in Alaska and Canada. He has been making the same trip for about 25 years to hand-cut and hand-print Northwest Coast Style designs for his artist ...

Maserati In Hong Kong Expensive cars are a status symbol in Hong Kong and I saw almost everything, Maseratis, Maybachs, Ferraris, Bentleys, Rollses and even saw a few Lamborginis. People there are either rich or poor working class. I had a great time in Hong Kong but next time I won’t go in the summer, ay ...

  Electronics Market I was able to get away from the Polish Printmakers Show to look around Seoul a little. The electronics market was amazing. Each of the nine floors was about the size of a football field. Lots of really cool stuff! Seoul has a lot of interesting architecture, modern and quirky. This ship building for ...

When I make my Trade Bead Legend Necklaces I often combine beads from different segments of time because they are primarily so beautiful together. They can tell a specific story about a main centerpiece pendant or they can just be the ideal representation of an era of time or cultural experience. Since I live in ...

A Collection of Scrap Gold Here’s a glimpse of the kind of old jewelry that we can melt and cast into your own custom jewelry. We can use it in your new custom piece or buy it from you toward the cost of your new design. So why keep that old or broken jewelry laying around ...

Songwriters In Seattle poster by C. Kelly Nowicki Part of what I do as a webmaster and graphics designer is to create flyers and posters. Flyers for events I also post to the Active Artist Facebook page and to Craigslist. Usually the work goes pretty quickly if I can get content from the client right away. ...