YUL BAKER
Heritage
- Coast Salish
Yul is an avid athlete and he won a World
Championship in lacrosse with the Rochester
Nighthawks in 1997. He has been working as an artist
since 2003 and has trained with established artists
Klathe-Bhi and Ray Natrall. Yul primarily carves
masks, in red and yellow cedar. He carries two
traditional names, one from the Kwakwaka'wakw
("Walla-bossa-ma") and one from the Nuu-chah-nulth
("Ge-mock-soth"). In February of 2008, Yul graduated
from the Northwest Coast Jewellery Arts Program at
the Native Education College in Vancouver, which was
led by Kwakwaka’wakw/Haida artist, Dan Wallace.