The Seriousness of Play: The Art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

$29.95 at Seattle Art Museum.

The Seriousness of Play explores the multiple forms, materiality and meaning of Haida Manga, through the art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. It playfully mutates through repurposed automobile parts, large-scale public art projects, mixed media sculptures and two-dimensional painted and graphic forms. Haida Manga combines traditional Native Northwest Coast designs and form-lines with manga (or manhwa) to create a distinctive artform for re-telling oral histories and addressing contemporary issues surrounding…