Adam McIsaac

American (born 1972)

Adam McIsaac creates carved wooden sculptures, as well as paintings and prints. He is a non-Native artist, and he studied under the non-Native artist Duane Pasco, who has made the study of Indigenous artistic traditions of the Northwest Coast his life’s work. McIsaac uses carving tools and materials based on Indigenous Northwest Coast carving traditions. He continues to learn about these traditions by working with local Indigenous communities, with a focus on the artistic traditions of the Columbia River tribes. McIsaac lives and works in La Center, on the Columbia River in Southwestern Washington.