Artist Bio

Dempsey Bob :

Dempsey Bob is a Tahltan-Tlingit artist, a member of the Wolf Clan.He was born in the Tahltan Village of Telegraph Creek on the Stikine River in North Western British Columbia in 1948.

His great grandfather Justin Ward was a carver from Hoonah Alaska, and great grandmother was a prominent basket weaver from Atlin British Columbia, and began to learn the art forms and the discipline of the art from his grandparents and mother.

Bob started carving in 1969 with Freda Diesing in Prince Rupert and has worked with many artists and teachers spending long hours perfecting his technical ability by drawing and carving. Today he serves as the Senior Advisor at the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art in Terrace BC.