Northwest Artists Against Extinction (NWAAE) support bold urgent action to protect wild salmon and steelhead from extinction and to restore them to abundance.

Salmon Are Vital

Healthy salmon populations deliver irreplaceable benefits to the peoples and places of the Pacific Northwest. Salmon are vital to the cultures and economies of many Northwest tribes and an essential food source for critically endangered Southern Resident orca.

Our ways of life as a region depend upon protecting wild salmon from extinction and restoring resilient populations.

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Call to Action

Northwest Artists Against Extinction is a project of Save Our wild Salmon Coalition.

Restoring a free-flowing lower Snake River, by removing four federal dams, is essential for protecting native Northwest salmon from extinction. This urgent conservation initiative represents one of our nation’s great salmon and river restoration opportunity today.

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NWAAE Articles & Blog

Read Articles and Blog posts by NWAAE and guests...

Voices for the West: At the Intersection of Art and Activism

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Enter NWAAE / SOS' 2024 poster competition

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Art makes advocacy stronger and more memorable

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Columbia River paintings by Erik Sandgren at Maryhill Museum of Art, Washington

Friday, March 15, 2024

Speak For the Salmon

Create artwork and send a strong message.

Pick a salmon template • Design/color it
Send the salmon and a message to elected officials

SPEAK FOR THE SALMON

Artist Partners

Save Our wild Salmon Coalition is partnering with Northwest Artists including:

Gabrielle Abbott

Victoria Adams

Alfredo Arreguin
Lisa Allison Blohm

Annie Brule

Sue Coccia
Melissa Cole
Rosemary Connelli

Marcus Fellbaum
Britt Freda

Lisa Gilley
Amy Gulick

Karen Hackenberg

Hart James

Eileen Klatt

Kim Kopp
Sarah Koten

Elsa and Tyler Lang
Odin Lonning
Megan Mack

Nikki McClure
Jen McLuen

Roxann Murray
Annie Musselman
Paige Pettibon
Austin Picinich
Nalisha Estrellas Rangel

Elise Richman

Karen Lené Rudd

Erik Sandgren

Israel Shotridge
Rachel Teannalach
Ray Troll

Josh Udesen

Claire Wachler

Rebecca Welti

Carrie Ziegler

Visit our Artist Partners page to learn more about each artist, with bios, images, and artist statements.

OUR ARTIST PARTNERS

What can be explained? I don't think creatures can be explained. I don't think lives can be explained. What we know about creatures and lives must be pictured or told or sung or danced... The arts are indispensable precisely because they are so nearly antithetical to explanation.

--Wendell Berry, Life Is a Miracle, Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2000, 113