Awards:

2008

• Canoe Box Presentation to Lt. Gov. Steven Point at Government House - 2009Recipient of the Prestigious B.C. Creative Achievement Award for Aboriginal Art in recognition of artistic excellence and invaluable contribution. (Click here to watch the video)
  

 

Commissions and Exhibits:

Ongoing

• Follow Bruce's work on his commission to help restore the totem pole originally carved by his menor Doug Cranmer, located in Salford, England.

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• Has pieces on permanent exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, B.C. and the Museum of Anthropology at U.B.C. in Vancouver, B.C.

• Completed numerous commissions for prominent Aboriginal art galleries including Spirit Wrestler Gallery (Vancouver), Coastal Peoples Gallery (Vancouver), Douglas Reynolds Gallery (Vancouver), The Path Gallery (Whistler), Lattimer Gallery (Vancouver), and private collectors world-wide.

2009

• Commissioned by First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council for a traditional canoe box presented to Lieutenant Governor, Steven Point, and on permanent exhibit at Government House in Victoria, BC. (Click here to watch the video)

2006 

• Assisted Wayne Alfred on a 10 foot interior pole for project CARVE at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia  

2003 

• Joint exhibit and art sale - ‘Through Our Eyes’ - with a professional photographer at the Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto, ON

2000 

• Helped construct 33 foot canoe and two small chests for the National Museum in Osaka, Japan

1998 

• Carved the posts and beams for the rebuilding of Alert Bay’s Big House 

Bruce accepting the 2008 BC Creative Achievement Award for Aboriginal Art from Premier Gordon Campbell.

1996 

• Helped create a Northwest Coast village for the Dolfinarium Theme Park in Harderwijk, Holland

1991 

• Commissioned by provincial government to produce memorial pole for Alert Bay Burial Grounds 

1989 

• Worked on the restoration of the Wak’as totem pole and house at the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, ON 

1980 

• Featured in the exhibition ‘The Legacy – Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art’, curated by Peter L. Macnair for the Royal British Columbian Museum in Victoria, B.C.

• Assisted Doug Cranmer in carving two house posts for the Denver Art Museum in Colorado

 

Community Involvement:

• Ongoing countless talks and art-technique demonstrations to student and professional anthropologists, visiting elders groups, inquiring tourists and elementary school classes

• Donates several pieces each year towards various individual, community and provincial fundraising projects such as Cops for Cancer, Beverly Mountain Cancer Fund and B.C. Arthritis Society

• Donation of time, support and artistic skill to produce funeral crosses when there is a death in the community

• Sought out by families for assistance on potlatch pieces

•  2007 Donation of two pieces to fundraising dinner and auction directed toward exhibit honouring Doug Cranmer’s legacy