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The actual creation sparks across neural circuits, and the ink is only revealed to me once it flows thorough the brush and onto the empty field

CONTEMPLATION

#inkonboard #gowiththeflow #yahgulanaas #artwork #square #panel #contemporaryart #haidamanga #mnystudio #mny #art #drawing #spontaneous
August 19, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Emptiness allows creativity to be spontaneous and demands little pre-planning or design

SWOOP OF THE HAND, Geste de la Main...

#inkonboard #gowiththeflow #yahgulanaas #artwork #square #panel #contemporaryart #haidamanga #mnystudio #mny #art #drawing #spontaneous
July 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Always opening pathways for imaginative play and curiosity

2 FISHES (2025)
Ink on board
30 x 30 cm

#Ink #drawing #art #artworks #fluid #movement #square #panel #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #yahgulanaas #mnystudio #mny #bcart #YVRart #crisp #contrast
July 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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RED panels exhibited outside in Nantes, France, took Haida Manga abroad

Printed from RED: a Haida Manga. #2020 #RED #HaidaManga #yahgulanaas #international #outdoorartexhibition #MNY #MNYStudio #magnified #framelines
June 10, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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June 15, 2010

#inkandwatercolour #inkandwatercolor #contemporaryart #worksonpaper #yahgulanaas #mnystudio
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April 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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How the story of JAJ begins...

#pageone #haidamanga @douglasmcintyre2013 #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #mny #mnystudio #publication #book #mural #canadianpublisher #canadapublishing #graphicart #graphicnovel #illustration #multimedia #canadagraphicart #art #drawing
February 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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New work from the studio. Even while distant we are connected to such small lands. Islands are also teeth.

Acrylic, crayon, ink on canvas

#painting #newwork #fromthestudio #overhteunangasislands #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #mny #mnystudio #artstudio #wet #contemporaryart #yellow #bcart #yvrarts
January 23, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Happy New Year of the Supernatural Clam Digger

#new #painting #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #contemporaryart #newwork #fromthestudio #artist #detail #artwork #art #northpacific #bcart #bcarts #yvrart #mny #mnystudio #artstudio
January 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Even in times of immense loss, we have never been mere victims.

TIDE (2011).

#MichaelNicollYahgulanaas #painting #artist #BCarts #shapes #fineart #contemporaryart #painter #mnystudio #colours
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Now available! You Were Made For This World is a collection of 20 letters by Indigenous writers, paired with art from 20 Indigenous illustrators... including yours truly.

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#YouWereMadeForThisWorld #IndigenousVoices #NewBook #mnystudio #PenguinRandomHouse #ArtAndWriting
You Were Made for This World by Collected by Stephanie Sinclair and Sara Sinclair; twenty letters by Indigenous writers paired with art by twenty Indigenous illustrators | Penguin Random House Canada
A joyful, proud and groundbreaking collection of letters and art for young people, You Were Made for This World brings together celebrated Indigenous voices from across Turtle Island.
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August 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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#workinprogress #multimedia #artistsupplies #behindthescenes #artiststudio #worksonpaper #mnystudio
July 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#CharacterSketch #stoic #MNYStudio #drawing #art #figurative
April 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Wishing you a happy Friday from the West Coast - time to share another work of art

#worksonpaper #art #artist #mixedmedia #MichaelNicollYahgulanaas #MNYStudio #whatdoyousee
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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From the Maktali series, Maktali being the old #Haida name for #Victoria. Made during my 2014 tenure as a visiting Audain professor at #UVIC with a student!

#MadronaGallery #linoleum #printmaking #MichaelNicollYahgulanaas #UniversityofVictoria #addedcolour #MNYStudio #Madrona #PartofaSeries
April 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Behold, the exciting and unique product of an English class at #LakeheadUniversity, challenged to "destroy" the mural assembled from the pages of RED: A Haida Manga.

Thank you for sharing, Professor Umolac!

#HaidaManga #collaboration #teamwork #MNYStudio #chooseyourownadventure #DouglasandMcIntyre
March 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Progress update on "Clan Hat," a #HaidaManga mural commissioned by the #VancouverArtGallery - coming along!

#MadronaGallery #GalleryJones #Vancouver #BCArt #MNYStudio #MichaelNicollYahgulanaas #nativeamericanart #DanielMagden #washi #manga #workonpaper #artstudio
March 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Mixed media work - reflecting on 30 years experience with front line activity, pushing back against misadventures such as industrial scale deforestation

#mixedmedia #yahgulanaas #deforestation #northpacific #westcoast #workonpaper #MNYStudio
March 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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So begins the deinstallation of the Diaries After a Flood exhibition at #MOCAToronto! RED mural will return to the Museum of Anthropology in #BC @moaubc.bsky.social

#Yahgulanaas #Mural #REDaHaidaManga #exhibition #museumdeinstallation #artshipping #mnystudio
February 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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FROTH, from the monumental #DaalkaatliiDiaries series, on display at @MOCAToronto until February 23, 2025!

#mnystudio #contemporaryart #painting #yahgulanaas #mocatoronto #nativeamericanart #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #acrylicpainting
February 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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"Saats (smelts)," a colourful acrylic painting from the monumental #DaalkaatliiDiaries series, on display at @MOCAToronto for two more weeks! For info, visit mny.ca

#mnystudio #contemporaryart #painting #yahgulanaas #mocatoronto #nativeamericanart #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #acrylicpainting
February 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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"Plunge," a #colourful acrylic painting that belongs to the monumental Daalkaatlii Diaries series, on display at @MOCAToronto until February!

For more info, visit mny.ca

#mnystudio #contemporaryart #painting #yahgulanaas #mocatoronto #nativeamericanart
January 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Chaos abound in "Centered in a Storm," an ink on wood piece... now in a private collection

#contemporarydrawings #ink #blackandwhite #yahgulanaas #mnystudio #bcartist #nativeamericanartist
January 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Getting lost in the process... there are many steps to #haidamanga

#inthestudio #inprogress #drawing #ink #mnystudio #yahgulanaas #stayfocused #bcart
January 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"Fresh Water Tears," another colourful acrylic painting that belongs to the monumental #DaalkaatliiDiaries series, on display at @MOCAToronto until February! For more info, visit mny.ca

#mnystudio #contemporaryart #painting #yahgulanaas #mocatoronto #nativeamericanart
January 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Never a boring day in the studio!

#dailydoodle #sketching #inkdrawing #yahgulanaas #mnystudio #inprogress #closeup #vancouverartist #haidamanga
January 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM