Marvin Oliver

Marvin Oliver was born in 1946 in Seattle. His father was Quinault and his mother

was lselta Pueblo. He obtained a bachelor of arts from San Francisco State

University in 1970 and a masters from the U of W in 1973. In 1975 Martin became

a professor of Northwest Coast Indian art at the U of W after teaching at Edmonds

and Olympic Community Colleges. He also teaches part time at the U of Alaska in

Ketchikan. Marvin is also the Curator of Contemporary Native American Art for the

Burke Museum. He is a very versatile artist having done work in wood, cast glass

and bronze in addition to serigraph prints and working in several different styles

from the tribes along the Pacific Northwest Coast. He has received many

commissions and grants including the main doors at the Daybreak Center in

Seattle. He has monumental sculptures installed in Seattle, Fairbanks and

Jackson, Wy. Marvin says that his "works are formulated by merging the spirit of

the past tradition with those of the present to create new horizons for the future."