Wayne Young

Country/Region: Northwest Coast (view other artists)

Tribe: Nisga’a / Haida

Wayne Young was born in 1958 in Prince Rupert, BC. Wayne attended school in Prince Rupert and began his career as an artist there. He began drawing at an early age and received his first instruction in the techniques of Northwest Coast design at the age of fifteen. His first teacher was Dempsey Bob.

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