Lynn Mitges , The Province
Published: Thursday, May 08, 2008
Paris has its Rodin, Amsterdam has its Van Gogh, and finally Vancouver has its Bill Reid Gallery.
In a long-awaited ceremony Tuesday, the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art was inaugurated by local Coast Salish chiefs and Haida Nation officials.
The new gallery, located on Hornby Street — the site of the former Craft Museum — is the perfect spot for a collection of Reid’s art, jewelry, sculpture and totem poles — a space that Reid himself had his eyes on before his death in 1998.
In their own words
Published: April 26th, 2008 11:32 PM
Last Modified: April 26th, 2008 04:44 AM
When
the juror for this year’s All Alaska Juried Exhibition visited Alaska,
he liked what he saw, the people he met and the beer he drank. As
curator of a contemporary art museum in Helsinki, Finland, Jari-Pekka
Vanhala knows the trials and joys of living in the North.
From Monday’s Globe and Mail
April 28, 2008 at 5:40 AM EDT
Scientists have found a direct link between the frozen remains of a man found in a glacier in northern B.C. and 17 people living in B.C., Yukon and Alaska.
The news came at a symposium in Victoria this past weekend, focusing on Kwaday Dan Ts’inchi’, an aboriginal man whose remains were found in 1999 by hunters in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park, which is in the traditional territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.
“The connection to the people,” said Al Mackie, an archaeologist on the project, “how they know his clan, how they know who his relatives are, that’s amazing. You just don’t get that in archaeology. It never happens.”
Kwaday Dan Ts’inchi’ means Long Ago Person Found, and he’s believed to have died some time between the years 1670 and 1850. His remains were revealed after a glacier started to recede.
Since the discovery, scientists have been studying all facets of the man, including his clothes, tools, migratory patterns, even the contents of his stomach. But it’s the DNA link to living people that has created the biggest stir.
“It’s just thrilling,” said Pearl Callaghan, a member of the Teslin-Tlingit First Nation. “The knowledge is so new to us; we’re still in a state of amazement.”
Her sister, Sheila Clark, said she was happy to be part of something special, but added, “it’s overwhelming in a way.”
“The significance is huge,” said Chief Diane Stand of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations. “A lot of people are really happy and really excited.”
Chief Strand said it proves that there is not only a link between people, but also between cultures as well. Long Ago Person Found is believed to have spent time both in the Interior and on the coast.
“The Champagne and Aishihik First Nations have a huge number of people that live in Alaska … and this discovery has made those ties even stronger.”
“We never stuck to our villages,” said Art Johns, of the Carcross-Tagish First Nation. Mr. Johns, also a DNA-linked descendant, said it was common for aboriginal people to be nomadic.
Chief Strand said the findings are important for her people, especially the youth, who seem captivated by learning about their people’s past. “Their eyes got big and they got so excited.”
Chief Strand applauded the news of the DNA link, but she expressed some frustration over the scientific community’s attitude toward cultural issues. Chief Stand said that for years, she and others have tried to contribute to the investigative process by telling ancestral stories, but they were discounted or not taken seriously. She said the discovery lends greater credibility to first nations’ traditions.
“This reaffirms the integrity of our oral history,” Chief Strand said. “Our oral history needs to have a place in your scientific world.”
At the symposium in Victoria, many praised the collaborative effort in investigating the iceman and the role it played in the research. Continue reading ‘Scientists link 17 living people to an aboriginal man found in glacier’
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Silver Hand program now has some teeth.
The program was begun in 1961 to authenticate Alaska Native art. Handicrafts that are authentic are awarded a silver hand symbol.Now, civil penalties will be levied for those that misuse the Silver Hand symbol under a bill passed this week and awaiting the governor’s signature.
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The bill was crafted by a task force of Alaska Native artists and the Alaska State Council on the Arts.
Sen. Gary Stevens of Kodiak says he sponsored the bill in the Senate to protect consumers from buying jade bears from China.
Information from: Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.com
Renowned B.C. First Nations artist and Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art instructor Dempsey Bob stars in a half-hour television show this week.
The documentary – an episode in the series Landscape as Muse, which explores Canadian landscapes and the artists inspired by them – will show Bob in various work settings, including the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art at Northwest Community College (NWCC).
It will also feature some of his newer works such as The Frog Woman and Raven sculptures, which were commissioned by the Vancouver International Airport and are on display in its new international wing.
“Most people are aware of First Nations carvers and artists in the Lower Mainland but don’t know what’s happening in northern B.C.,” Bob said. “In addition to showcasing some of the art pieces I’m proud of, this program will help inform others about the incredible work taking place in the north and shine a little light on talented, upcoming artists here.”
Bob, who has been carving and teaching for more than 30 years, is one of the foremost Tahltan/Tlingit artists of his generation.
His works are featured in museums and galleries throughout the world.
A friend and student of acclaimed Haida artist Freda Diesing, Bob worked as a senior advisor to establish the Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art in February 2006.
He continues to help develop the school and co-instructs two of its First Nations Northwest Coast Art courses.
Faces in the Land: Dempsey Bob 2008 premieres on Bravo TV Thursday, April 3 at 4:30 p.m.
In Native Voices - contemporary indigenous art at the five myles gallery in Brooklyn, artist Nicholas Galanin, who is of Tlingit/Aleut/Cherokee descent, re-invents a Tlingit mask (from a copy made in Indonesia) by cutting its form from a dense book that shows the source of its blurred features. Galanin is among eight contemporary Native artists whose work is on view from March 8-April 20, 2008. Digital imagery, an anti-terrorist manual and sculpture sewn from walrus gut are among the different forms of art highlighted at five myles, showing the scope of approaches embraced by the Native art community. Meet the artists at the opening reception on Saturday, March 8, 5 - 8 p.m.
The Artists
Jesse Cooday’s (Tlingit) ability to distill cultural essences and merge them with personal identity, yields a powerful self-portrait, a grid of nine photographs, that blends his features with a richly colored mask.
Duane Slick (Mesquaki), a monochrome painter of subtlety and nuance, is also a Professor at Rhode Island School of Design. His layered, spectral images have the subliminal power of a shadow play.
Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Inupiaq/Athabaskan) was trained as a child in traditional needlework and gained a rich understanding of her tribal heritage. Her installation in this exhibition mirrors her culture’s affinity in terms of aethetics as well as function for animal viscera.
Jason Lujan (Apache), who seamlessly reveals hidden agendas, created a how-to manual on ‘homeland security’ from an indigenous point of view - where terrorism takes an entirely different form
Tanis Maria S’eiltin (Tlingit) has used a range of media throughout her career to confront social and political issues. Her video in the exhibition, a condemnation of Blood for Oil politics, is presided over by two life-size drawings of her great-grandmother,
Maria Hupfield (Ojibwa), an artist of minimal means and elegant forms, creates surprising visual metaphors. In Flap, Flap, Flap she gathers gentle doves into a demarcated (almost target-like) circle on the floor; with wings outstretched (as if still in flight), their jumbled state implies a disregard for their peaceful path.
Star Wallowing Bull (Chitpewa) is said to have been drawing since he was one year old. Working mostly in jewel-like prismacolor, he builds intricate, often pulsing, worlds - where Pop icons and timeless symbols vie for dominance and clarity.
Native Voices - contemporary indigenous art
Opening reception: Saturday, March 8, 5 - 8 p.m.
five myles
558 St. Johns Place
Brooklyn, NY
718.783.4438
Directions:
Within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.
Directions by SUBWAY: 2,3,4,or 5 train to Franklin Ave. Walk 2 blocks against traffic on Franklin to St. Johns Place.
Turn left, walk half block to five myles.
Join us June 23rd for the Grand Opening of The Devilfish gallery/studio workspace.
315 Lincoln Street Suite 114
Sitka, Alaska
99835
Opening at 3pm with refreshments, food and music!
Haida artist Robert Davidson is one of two to receive the first aboriginal lifetime achievement awards offered by the province.
Mr. Davidson is known throughout the world as a master carver of totem poles and masks as well as a printmaker, painter and jeweler. He learned from his father Claude and grandfather and has evolved into a leading figure in the renaissance of Haida art. He has also received the National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada.
Mr. Davidson will receive the award Tuesday in Vancouver.
“Dempsey Bob and Robert Davidson are artists of enormous talent whose commitment to their art has had a profound impact upon First Nations culture,” said Campbell, director of the Foundation. “Through their interpretations of First Nations’ stories and traditions and their mentoring efforts in their communities they have provided the kind of cultural leadership that inspires all British Columbians.”
“It is a privilege for the Foundation to recognize Bob and Davidson with its inaugural lifetime achievement awards,” added Mitchell.
A master Tahltan-Tlingit carver for more than 30 years, Dempsey Bob’s prolific totem poles and sculptures are seen in galleries and in private, government and corporate collections around the world. Using alder, cedar and bronze, Dempsey’s work is inspired by history and reflects the richness of the Tahltan culture. Dempsey’s work is celebrated in many collections including the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union is a 2007 novel by America author Michael Chabon. The novel is an alternate history detective story based on the premise that after World War II, a Yidish-speaking Jewish homeland was established in Alaska, given that the State of Isreal ceased to exist in 1948 after an unsuccessful struggle for independence and survival (which succeeded in reality). It takes place in a fictionalized version of the real city of Sitka.
