Calvin Hunt (born 1956, Kwakiutl) is a Canadian First Nations artist from Fort Rupert, British Columbia. The Kwakiutl are part of the larger nation Kwakwaka'wakw.
He is a descendant of the renowned Tlingit ethnologist George Hunt. He was apprenticed as a teenager to his second cousin Tony Hunt, an artist and carver.
He is a woodcarver and owns his own gallery. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Sources Hunt, Ross (2007) "The Hunt Family's Trip to West Germany to Attend the Bundesgarten Show." Anthropology News, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 20–21. Macnair, Peter L., Alan L. Hoover, and Kevin Neary (1984) The Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Northwest Coast Indian Art. Vancouver, B.C.: Douglas & McIntyre.