Canoe-Builder Valliere to be Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts By Liz Holbrook
Mar 3, 2021 3:47 PM
RHINELANDER, WI (WSAU-WXPR) â A Lac du Flambeau canoe builder is being honored Thursday evening in a virtual presentation hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Wayne Valliere was first exposed to the craft of canoe building when he 14 years old. âIt was just amazing to see all the natural materials that were being harvested and processed and manipulated into something very beautiful and usable,â he said.
Since then, Valliere has mastered the art, and he teaches others to do the same. Valliere tells WXPR Radio at one time, every family in an Ojibwe community knew how to build a canoe, but that knowledge is now scarce.
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Wayne Valliere was first exposed to the craft of canoe building when he 14 years old. “It was just amazing to see all the natural materials that were being