Scow, Barry
Barry Scow was born in 1964 in the village of Alert Bay, BC on Vancouver Island, Kwak'wakaw'wakw Nation. His grandfather was a Chief and because of this, Barry Scow grew up with a strong sense of his cultural heritage. His uncle, Alfred Scow, hereditary chief of the Kwicksutaineuk First Nation on Gilford Island, was the first British Columbia Supreme Court Judge of Native origin.
Barry Scow, for several years, apprenticed under Beau Dick one of the most prominent carvers on the Northwest Coast. Exhibiting great determination to become an accomplished carver, Scow has emerged as an important talent and is now carving powerful and finely crafted masks. In recent years he is the only artist focusing solely on transformation and other types of articulated masks.
Scow has exhibited the discipline and determination to become one of the Northwest Coast’s prominent Kwakwaka’wakw artists.