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Biography
Shoshannah Greene (SGid Gang.Xaal) (born 1991-1992) is a visual artist from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.

She was born and raised on Haida Gwaii, where she was adopted into the Cumshewa Eagle Clan. Her family supported her interest in the arts, as her father was a Haida artist and her mother encouraged her to enroll in art classes. Studying with the artists Sheila Karrow and Betsy Dardell, Shoshannah discovered pottery and painting, in addition to having always been interested in cartoons. Her main inspirations in the cartoon genre are Frank, Ollie, and Milt Khal according to a blog post written by a close friend of hers. She also draws from Kitagawa Utamaro’s artwork.

After perfecting her skills at cartoon drawing throughout her years at Queen Charlotte Secondary School, Greene pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies, Interactive Technology Video Graphics and Special Effects at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. There, she developed her personal synthesis between commercial applications of Animation and First Nations issues.

She has also been awarded with the YVR Youth Art Scholarship Award, delivered yearly by the YVR Art Foundation to youth between 16 and 26 years of age and residing in British Columbia or the Yukon for the purpose of encouraging aspiring visual artists to develop their potential. She has worked as a cultural interpreter at the Haida Heritage Center and at the American Museum of Natural History, developing the project "Dreams of The Haida Child." Her paintings and animations have been featured in the exhibition “Culture at the Centre” at the University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology.

Combining her diverse artistic interests with her knowledge of Haida stories and carvings, her artwork has evolved along the years to combine Haida-style carvings with mostly watercolor and acrylic representations, and sketches, of animals.

Representative Works
One of her first important works includes a project at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in the framework of SpaceStream Design Project in 2011. The artwork consisted in the design of a cyclable and pedestrian bridge meant to cross from David Lam to Charleston Park. The bridge represented a pod of Killer Whales chasing salmon.

As visual development artist leader for the project "Dreams of The Haida Child" (2015), Greene created various “Haida designs and colouring pages for the families to interact with during their visit of the The Hall of Northwest Coast Indians”.

One of her main visual works to date is the short cartoon “Yahguudan”, (Respect, in Haida language), which depicts various natural elements and beings before the viewer’s eyes through Haida words and expressions that are key to her community’s culture and vision of the Earth. It was finalized in May 2015 as her final Grad work.