Vernon Stephens

Vernon Stephens is frequently remembered and paid homage to for his long teaching

career at the Kitanmax (or Gitanmaax) School of Northwest Indian Art at the Ksan

Historical Village and Museum near Hazelton. He was one of the master teachers with

Ken Mowatt, Walter Harris, Earl Muldoe(n) and Art Sterritt. Vernon was one of 4 Gitxsan

artists who carved the massive entrance doors in 1976 at the then brand new University

of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology. Stephens along with Kew Mowatt were

the two primary artists that illustrated the 1977 book, Wy-gyet Wanders On, Legends of

the Northwest, a collection of Ksan stories.