Charles Funk » About the Artist

Artist Bio

Most of my life has been spent in Southwest Washington.  We fished the rivers and bay and hunted the hills of the Willapa as our Ancestors did before us.
After a year of junior college, I was accepted into Art Center College of Design where I attended one year.  I completed a degree in art eduction at Central Washington University then taught in both the elementary and high
school. After several years, I went into the commercial art field in advertising and in the sign business.
 I am a member of the Chinook Tribe that once lived at the mouth of the
 Columbia River.                                                                                                     I produce and market a successful line of Native American design shirts.
I am working of a series prints that tell some of our Chinook stories.
Art is a way of seeing, something I do constantly.  Whether travelling or at home, I am doing art.