Elijah Morberg is Tahltan/Tlingit artist of the “Tsesk’iye” – Crow Clan. He was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon. From a young age he was always drawing and grew up around the Northwest Coast Art form. Eventually he picked it up and started practicing and carving alongside his father, Calvin Morberg, and fellow carvers. He began by drawing traditional form-line design and eventually began on carving and painting mini-paddles for friends and family. He helped paint a mural on a public building in down town Whitehorse. He also helped carve a dugout canoe as an apprentice under lead artist Colin Teramura. He is currently in the first year of the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art in Terrace, British Columbia. He plans to continue to pursue and study the art form keeping his culture alive and eventually passing it on down to the next generations.
