Taken Flight
A bird coaster series by featured artist Carl Avery.
Blue Lake Tribal Manufacturing (BLTM) is a wholly owned company of Blue Lake Rancheria Economic Development Corporation. BLTM is proud to partner with Blue Lake Casino & Hotel and Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe to create these limited-edition coasters featuring original artwork from Carl Avery.
Featured Artist
Carl Avery
Carl Avery is a self-taught artist who has been building his career since 2007. Today his work spans large-scale murals, logo design, and his own online shop, where he sells original Native American art and prints. Raised on the Hupa reservation, Carl is Yurok, and his art draws deeply from the natural world and traditional cultural design.
Over the past decade, Carl has painted murals throughout Northern California, bringing a Native voice into public spaces and shared community places. His work leans into nature and cultural motifs to create spaces that feel vibrant, welcoming, and open to everyone who passes through them.
The Wood
Milled Here. Made Here.
Tanoak has fed North Coast tribes for generations. Now it carries Carl Avery’s birds. Harvested from the Indigenous lands of Humboldt County and milled, routed, engraved, and printed at BLTM in Blue Lake. One of 500 signed sets.
Project Gallery
From the Mill to Your Table
Follow the series from log to finished set — photos and clips from the mill, the shop, and the print room in Blue Lake.
At the Mill
Every coaster and holder in the series starts as a log at the BLTM mill in Blue Lake.
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In the Shop
The holders are CNC-routed from solid boards, then laser-engraved with Carl’s signature.
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The Print Room
Carl’s bird artwork is UV-printed directly onto the wood grain, so no two coasters look alike.
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Ready for the Table
A limited run of 500 signed sets, made in Blue Lake for Blue Lake Casino & Hotel.
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Taken Flight is made possible in collaboration with Blue Lake Casino & Hotel — a sibling enterprise of the Blue Lake Rancheria. Explore more of what we build in Blue Lake.