Point, Susan

POINT, Susan, Coast Salish artist (b 5 Apr 1952, Alert Bay). She grew up on the MUSQUEAM Reserve in S Vancouver and attended RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL at SECHELT. Her father was a commercial FISHER and her mother worked in fish CANNERIES; Point's first job after leaving school was at a cannery with her mother. She later worked in the offices of different FIRST NATIONS political organizations. As an artist she began producing jewellery and prints based on traditional SALISH designs in the early 1980s....

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