produced. The "simplicity, antiquity, limited quantity and sometimes impenetrable iconography of (Coast) Salish art" have led to dismiss it in comparison to neighbor art forms, but Aldona Jonaitis in Art of the Northwest Coast remarks "Coast Salish art, like that of other Northwest Coast groups, responds to the social needs for which the archaic style was well suited... Coast Salish art cannot be judged according to alien values appropriate to other Northwest Coast groups, but, like most kinds of art, must be understood as visual statements meaningful and valuable to their creators." Coast Salish artists Joseph M. Wilson Doug LaFortune Margaret August Dylan Thomas lessLIE Jody Broomfield Aaron Nelson-Moody Susan Point Luke Marston John Marston Debra Sparrow Bonny Graham [b.wyse] Laura Lee-Way-Laq Sto:lo/Snuneymuxw artist of Indigenous language through font creation in traditional Coast Salish inspired design. Print artist, painter, public art and language preservation Gallery See also Coast Salish languages Northwest Coast art References Further reading Steven C. Brown, Rebecca Blanchard, and Nancy Davenport. Contemporary Coast Salish Art. University of Washington Press (August 2005). . Point, Susan. Susan Point: Coast Salish artist. Douglas & McIntyre (November 2000). . Jonaitis, Aldona. Art of the Northwest Coast. Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. . External links Seattle Art Museum: "S'abadeb—The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists" — Coast Salish art show. RRN: Coast Salish art U.Wash Digital Collections: Photo of Lummi carver Al Charles (1970) UVic anthropologist “transports” Coast Salish art to the public Coast Salish Welcome Figures at YVR Airport Northwest Coast art Indigenous art in Canada Culture of British Columbia Art in Washington (state)