Healthy salmon populations deliver irreplaceable benefits to the peoples and places of the Pacific Northwest. Salmon are essential to the cultures and economies of many Northwest Tribes, and they are an essential food source for critically endangered Southern Resident orcas. More than 130 other fish and wildlife species rely upon and benefit from the presence of wild salmon. In myriad ways, our unique identity and ways of life as a region depend upon protecting wild salmon from extinction and restoring healthy, resilient, fishable populations.
Northwest Artists Against Extinction (NWAAE, a project of Save Our wild Salmon Coalition) is a creative collaboration between artists and advocates to build public support and political leadership to restore the lower Snake River and its imperiled wild salmon and steelhead.
NWAAE and SOS support bold, creative action through artful advocacy! Advocacy through art is an important part of creatively cultivating a healthier future. We’re passionate about the power of art – to connect people to people, people to animals, to place, and to our shared humanity—all essential connections in the sustainable and vibrant architecture of tomorrow.
NWAAE is partnering with over 50 Northwest artists to bring art and salmon into everyday conversations and to evoke visions of free-flowing rivers with abundant salmon, ecosystems with strong orca populations, and Indigenous treaties honored.
It is with the generosity of our artist partners that we are able to bring original art, in many diverse forms, to current conversations around policy, science, and what just might be possible.
“We cannot create what we can’t imagine.” – Lucille Clifton
Evoke imagination.
Connect outside.
Be creative!
Questions about Northwest Artists Against Extinction or would you like to get involved? Check out nwaae.org or fill out this contact form!
Top photos, left to right: Volunteer with Get Out The Vote poster, Cyaltsa Finkbonner, All Our Relations, Gabrielle Wildheart, Free The Snake River. Stand with Tribes.
Bottom photos, left to right: Artwork by Eileen Klatt at Earth Day Celebration with Vashon Green School, Volunteers with Get Out The Vote poster, Salmon Lifelines artwork with Judith Le Blanc, executive director of the Native Organizer Alliance, on a Snake River canoe journey.
