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

LEARN MORE ABOUT NWAAE

 

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.

TAKE ACTION

 

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Autumn Spawn
by Robin Koontz

Autumn Spawn by Robin Koontz

We are thrilled to announce Autumn Spawn is now available order on Amazon! All proceeds go to SOS. We are deeply thankful to Robin Koontz for donating this book to support SOS' work to recover salmon and steelhead in the Columbia-Snake River Basin! 

PURCHASE THE BOOK

You can read more about the origin story of this project on Robin's blog: Save Our Wild Salmon and Creating Autumn Spawn, A Salmon's Journey.

Learn more about NWAAE artist, Robin Koontz here.

NWAAE Articles & Blog

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

An Evening of Poetry with Rena Priest

Autumn Spawn: A Salmon’s Journey

Kat Martin on The Last Salmon

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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

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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