Join us for an hour of art, story, and conversation with two artists from opposite coasts who carry the stories of their homelands in their visual and written work.

Cole Pauls (Tahltan) brings the northern Yukon into every panel and print, featuring sci-fi warriors and punk-rock pizza lovers, all drawn with the same sharp lines and cultural pride. Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun (Snuneymuxw First Nation), paints in the light and colour of the Salish Sea, bringing to life the beloved Coast Salish woolly dogs and old stories that rise from the tide.

Together, they’ll share their creative process, the intersections of visual art and narrative, and how place, culture, and craft shape their work. Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your love for a good story.

Location: Room C400, UBC Robson Square

Readers: Cole Pauls | Eliot White-Hill

About The Readers

Cole Pauls

Cole Pauls is a Champagne and Aishihik Citizen and Tahltan comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker hailing from Haines Junction (Yukon Territory). He holds a BFA in Illustration from Emily Carr University. Residing in Vancouver, Pauls has created four graphic novels: Dakwäkãda Warriors (2019), Pizza Punks (2021), Kwändür (2022) and We See Stars Only At Night (2025). In 2017, Pauls won Broken Pencil Magazine’s Best Comic and Best Zine of the Year Award for Dakwäkãda Warriors II. In 2020, Dakwäkãda Warriors won Best Work in an Indigenous Language from the Indigenous Voices Awards and was nominated for the Doug Wright Award categories The Egghead & The Nipper. In 2022, Artspeak Gallery, in Vancouver BC, held the first solo exhibition of Pauls’ work, “Dazhän Kwändür Ch’e (This is a Story)”. In 2023, Kwändür won the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize from the BC & Yukon Book Prize.