The Art Wing at Tachick Lake Healing Centre preserves ancestral stories through permanent installations, artist residencies, and living cultural expression on Carrier and Sekani territory.
The Art Wing is not a traditional gallery or museum. It is a living space where visual storytelling becomes part of every person's healing journey. Permanent installations greet visitors on arrival, guide them through ceremony, and stay with them long after they leave Tachick Lake.
Inspired by the roundhouse architecture of the Healing Centre itself, the Art Wing draws from pit house forms and the sheltering curve of the land. Ten-foot glass windows bring the forests, water, and sky inside, so the territory is never separate from the work created here.
Nah Zul Deez T'iah — Your Spirit is Precious
Every piece in this space carries a story that predates us and will outlast us. Clan crests, ceremonial regalia, carved panels, and contemporary works by emerging Indigenous artists sit alongside one another. Culture is healing. This is where that belief takes physical form.
Each exhibition is a permanent healing installation, woven into the architecture and the journey of every person who walks through this space.
Monumental carved panels representing Frog, Mother Bear, and Eagle clans. These crests anchor the entrance and remind every visitor whose territory holds this healing work.
A multi-sensory installation connecting the healing power of Tachick Lake and the surrounding Carrier and Sekani territory to the personal journeys of those who visit.
Regalia and textile works honouring the Potlatch tradition. Each piece carries the Bah'lats principles of compassion, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, and trust passed through generations.
Eagle carries light and new beginnings. This rotating exhibition showcases emerging Indigenous artists whose work reflects healing, resilience, and cultural resurgence.
The Art Wing invites Indigenous artists to live and create at Tachick Lake, drawing inspiration from the territory, the water, and the healing community around them. Works created during residency become permanent installations, but intellectual property always remains with the artist.
Residents have access to carving studios, multipurpose workshop spaces, and the land itself. Land-based healing and land-based art are the same practice here. Creating wellness together means artists are part of the healing, not separate from it.
Full workshop space for wood carving, totem work, and panel installations.
Flexible spaces for painting, textile work, mixed media, and digital creation.
Direct access to forests, lake, and territory for land-based creative practice.
Work alongside Elders and knowledge keepers who guide cultural protocols.
Every program at the Art Wing connects creative expression to the healing journey. Art is ceremony. Making is medicine.
Learn traditional carving techniques from master carvers. Create pieces that carry clan stories and personal healing forward through cedar, birch, and bone.
Young people reconnect with ancestral knowledge through visual storytelling, printmaking, and digital art guided by Indigenous artists and Elders.
Knowledge keepers share oral histories that become the foundation for new installations. Stories of Mother Bear, Eagle, and the Frog clan live on through art.
Art exhibitions align with seasonal gatherings and ceremony, grounding creative expression in the rhythms of the land and the Bah'lats tradition.
The Art Wing follows the architectural language of the Tachick Lake Healing Centre: roundhouse ceremony spaces, natural wood trusses, and walls of glass that dissolve the boundary between inside and territory.
The site slopes gently toward Lake Tachick. From every angle, the water is present. The forest is present. Art created here does not hang on walls divorced from context. It lives where the land shaped it.
The land is not a backdrop — it is the foundation of every work created here.
The great law of sharing — no principle greater than another, and through this approach, balance is upheld.
Honouring the knowledge, traditions, and dignity of every person who enters this space. Art begins with listening.
Every installation is created with empathy for the healing journey. Art made here carries the weight of shared experience.
Stories told through art are told truthfully. We do not soften history or decorate pain. We witness it and honour it.
Artists retain their intellectual property. Cultural protocols are followed. The work belongs to those who created it.
We hold responsibility to our Member Nations, to the land at Tachick Lake, and to the generations who will inherit what we build.
This space exists because communities trusted CSFS with their stories. That trust is the foundation of every work displayed here.
The Art Wing at Tachick Lake Healing Centre is being built on Carrier and Sekani territory, near Prince George, British Columbia. Opening Fall 2027.
Tachick Lake, BC
Near Prince George
Fall 2027
Construction in progress
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Carrier Sekani Family Services
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