Helmi Dagmar Juvonen | A Personal Connection

Helmi is known for her humor and sincerity, bringing a personal quality to the often somber and stoic Northwest School where women’s contributions were rarely acknowledged. She also focused on indigenous Northwest art at a time when it received little attention or recognition. Her work was frequently underappreciated until advocacy by her friends and fellow artists led to several retrospective exhibitions in the last ten years of her life.