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The Native Art Center is proud to present Monoprints and fashion STATEMENT in honor of National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month History

2011-11-08T12:36:00.000-08:00

MONOPRINTS from University of Alaska Fairbanks Workshop is an exhibition in collaboration and partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Native Arts Center and Printmaking Program, the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, artist and professor Melanie Yazzie from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Alaska Native Artists and students, Kathleen Carlo, Erin Gingrich, Eric Hamar, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Erica Lord, Da-ka-xeen Mehner, Junko Yanagda, Marjorie Tabone, and Denis Keogh. Initially Kelliher-Combs intended to work solo with guest artist, Melanie Yazzie but realized what a wonderful opportunity it would be to share her with young Alaska Native Arts Students and other Alaska Native Artists at her Alma mater UAF. The intense 2-day workshop yielded many prints but more important was the energy, creativity, learning, sharing, and new made friendships. These prints are a very small sampling of what was created.

This exhibition and printmaking workshop held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, April 2011, were made possible through a generous grant from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.

http://www.nacf.us/

For More Information on either of these shows please visit

http://www.igcaalaska.org/blog/

http://www.burkemuseum.org/exhibits/browse/fashion_statement

fashion STATEMENT

2011-10-14T11:29:00.000-07:00

The Native Art Center is proud to present fashion STATEMENT at the UAF gallery in Honor of National Native American Month, November 2011.

EXHIBITION:
fashion STATEMENT: Native Artists Against Pebble Mine

(Seattle) – Seattle artist and fisherwoman Anna Hoover is arranging a group show in opposition of the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay. The exhibition, comprised of artwork created by internationally celebrated Native artists reproduced on t-shirts and limited edition prints, will be exhibited and made available online for purchase to raise awareness for this movement. In August the exhibit will premiere at the International Gallery in Anchorage, AK, before touring to a series of venues around the US, Canada and New Zealand.

The Natural Resources Defense Council has stated, “If the Pebble Mine is allowed to go forward, it will inflict irreversible damage on Bristol Bay -- including the permanent destruction of sixty miles of salmon habitat.” Hoover’s grassroots efforts will join a host of celebrity voices, including Robert Redford and Tiffany and Co., to spread the message about the proposed Pebble Mine and its disastrous effects on the environment and region’s subsistence way of life. The recent threat of the proposed Pebble Mine would cause not only an environmental disaster but also erase an entire fishing industry that relies on the continued return of the salmon. Hoover discussed her personal connection to the cause:

I have spent my entire life returning summer after summer to Bristol Bay along with the millions of salmon that for millennia spawn in this area. It is not just a resource to me, but an important part of my existence and I recognize the importance of the health of the Bay in order for the continued sustainability of the entire region’s ecosystem. Working with close friends and internationally respected Native artists, the goal of this exhibition is to garner support for the protection of Bristol Bay and all who call this place home.

Currently slated to feature fifteen Native artists from around the world, fashion STATEMENT asks each artist to create a unique anti-Pebble design to be printed on t-shirts and limited edition prints.The artwork will both be displayed and sold at the gallery and via a soon-to-be launched website.

The show features designs by esteemed Native artists such as Joe David, James Luna and Larry McNeil, all of whom have asserted the centuries long relationships that Native peoples have created with their environments, through Native art activism. Featured artists include Marcus Amerman (Choctaw), Sonny Assu (Kwakwaka’wakw), Rick Bartow (Wiyot), Phillip Charette (Yup’ik), Joe David (Nuu-chah-nulth), Nicholas Galanin (Aleut, Tlingit), Anna Hoover (Aleut), John Hoover (Aleut), Brad Kahlhamer (Lakota), Richard Kereopa (Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tainui, Nga Puhi), James Luna (Luiseño), Larry McNeil (Tlingit, Nisga’a), Da-ka-xeen Mehner (Tlingit), Tanis S’eiltin (Tlingit).

Anna Hoover has traveled extensively attending international gatherings of indigenous artists in New Zealand, Hawai’i, and Far Eastern Russia/Siberia. Her work has been presented at a number of galleries around the world, including a solo exhibition in Komsomolsk, Russia, and group shows at the Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton University (US, 2009), Proyecto ACE (Argentina, 2009), and the Bishop Museum, Hawai’i (US, 2007). She received a Fellowship to work with the gallery Alaska House New York and has received several commissions from the Burke Museum (Seattle, WA) one of which is currently on national tour.

This spring she is completing Master’s Degrees at the University of Washington in Documentary Filmmaking and Native American Art History. Anna Hoover comes from a long lineage of commercial salmon fishers, and proudly carries on the family tradition. She has an intimate connection with this land and these waters resulting from time spent working and playing in Bristol Bay. She is hopeful this exhibition dedicated to saving Bristol Bay and stopping the Pebble Mine will reach audiences far and wide.

ABOUT THE PEBBLE MINE:

fashion STATEMENT will draw attention to the attempt by foreign mining investors Anglo American and Northern Dynasty to place North America’s largest open pit mine at the headwaters of the last remaining wild sockeye salmon streams. Mine’s of this type do not immediately effect the surrounding environment, it may take up to 80 years before the resulting disaster is evident. Open pit mines across the globe, in South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Butte, Montana, show us the risks outweigh the benefits.

A local group of eight Bristol Bay village corporations calling themselves Nunamta Aulukestai, or Caretakers of the Land stated:

Native people have been subsisting off of these fish for thousands of years. To put this resource at risk for an unsustainable resource such as gold is not only foolish but it endangers the livelihoods of the residents, animals and plants that live here.

INTERNATIONAL OPENING DATES

Summer 2011-Spring 2012

Anchorage • Fairbanks • Port Townsend • Portland • Astoria • Vancouver BC • New York City • Auckland • Washington DC • Seattle

http://www.nativeartistsagainstpebblemine.com/

Contemporary Alaska Native Artist

2011-09-27T12:49:00.000-07:00

Someone just asked if I new of any Contemporary Alaska Native Artists. This was my quick list off the top of my head.

Alaska Native Artists

John Hoover

Steven Jackson (AKA Stron Softi)

Jim Schoppert

Preston Singltary

Nicholas Galanin (AKA) Silver Jackson

Larry McNeil

Donnie Varnell

Tanis S'eiltin

Alvin Amason

Lena Amason

Jerry Laktonen

Perry Eaton

Denise And Samuel Wallace

Larry Beck

Ayap'run Jack Abraham

Phillip John Charette

Susie Silook

Peter Seeganna

Ken Lisbourn

Rick Seeganna

Larry Ulaaq Ahvakana

Melvin Olanna

Joseph Senungetuk

Sylvester Ayek

Ronald Senungetuk

Othneil Oomittuk

Sonya Kelliher-Combs

Susie Qimmiqsaq Bevins

Kathleen Carlo

James Grant

Ron Manook

Dimi Macheras

Erica Lord

Would love to here of others that anyone can think of.

Pleas join us for a lecture with Melanie Yazzie

2011-04-13T10:41:00.000-07:00

ALASKA’S LIVING CULTURAL TREASURES: A GIFT FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION Recognition Ceremony & Reception

2011-03-17T11:37:00.000-07:00

The Alaska State Council on the Arts cordially invites you to join us in recognizing Living Cultural Treasures from the Doyon region for their traditional cultural leadership, time honored artistry and craftsmanship, and mastery of Athabascan language.

HONORED ELDERS
Alice Ambrose, Catherine Attla, Poldine Carlo, Edna Deacon, Daisy Demientieff, Lina Demoski, Bergman
Esmailka, Sr., Tekla Esmailka, Simon Francis, Ada Gallen, Angela Harper, Moses Henzie, Sidney Huntington,
Eliza Jones, Florence Keyse, Howard Luke, Micah Malcolm, Agnes Manook Ostlund, Pauline Peter, Helen
Peters, Elsie Pitka, Maggie Roberts, Goodwin Semaken, Sr. and Hannah Solomon.

TEACHERS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
Clifford Adams, George Albert, Dixie Alexander, Irene Solomon Arnold, Kathleen Carlo, Kathleen Ketzler
Demientieff, Riba DeWilde, Lillian DeWilde, Curtis Erhart, Trimble Gilbert, Ann Goessel, Denise Hardesty,
Emma Glazier Hildebrand, Marvin Kokrine, Esther Ambrose McCarty, Susan Paskvan, Faith Peters, Delores
Sloan, Bill Stevens, and Madeline Williams.

For more information and to RSVP contact Saunders McNeill at the Alaska State Council on the Arts
1-888-278-7424 or 1-907-269-6603
This program is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure Grant
ALASKA’S LIVING CULTURAL TREASURES:
A GIFT FOR OUR NEXT GENERATION
Recognition Ceremony & Reception
Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center
Fairbanks, Alaska
March 18, 2011
6 - 8 pm

Native Arts and Cultures Foundation to visit the Native Art Center

2010-10-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

To all AFN artists in town, The Native Art Center at UAF (http://www.uaf.edu/art/areas/native-arts/) will be hosting a gathering of artist on October 22^nd at 1pm in room 301 of the Fine Arts Complex at UAF. The Program director of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (www.nativeartsandcultures.org) will be to here talk about the work they are doing at the foundation and would like to visit with local artists to hear about their work and aspirations.

This will be a great opportunity for Alaska Native artist to hear about the Foundation’s work. I know AFN is a busy time for everyone but the foundation is doing some great things, check out the link (http://www.nativeartsandcultures.org/community?ref=nf). And our studio was renovated since the last AFN in Fairbanks so come on up and check it out.

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Columbus Day @ the Native Art Center

2010-10-12T15:12:00.001-07:00

Fwd: Cathleen Carlo masks

2010-10-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

Museum of the North Visit

2010-09-09T13:51:00.000-07:00

Today we will be visiting the University of Alaska Museum of the North (http://www.uaf.edu/museum/) just up the road from the Native Arts Center. Remember its a reserch Museum so students can make appointment to go downstairs and look at what isn't on display.

The Begining of the Fall 2010 Semester

2010-09-04T13:13:00.000-07:00

Welcome back everyone. This will be a great semester, this year Fairbanks will be hosting AFN and all our classes will have great opportunities to meet some of the amazing artist that come up for this event. So stay tuned and enjoy the fall.

Still Time to get a table at this years Festival of Native Arts

2010-01-21T17:07:00.001-08:00

Hello again vendors, due to the economy and time constraints, the Festival of Native Arts office will be extending the deadline for the vendor application. Please use this to you advantage, and return your vendor application as soon as possible.

Attached : vendor invite, vendor application and agreement. Please help us get the word out into the community!

Thank you all so much, and I can’t wait to see you during festival.

Sarah Villalon
Roben Congdon
Student Coordinators

UAF Festival of Native Arts
315 Brooks Bldg, 305 Tanana Dr.
Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-6300
(907)474-7181 / Fax:(907)474-5666
http://www.uaf.edu/festival

2010 Dates: March 4-6, 2010

On the Ice Casting Trip

2009-11-16T11:33:00.000-08:00

Andrew MacLean is in town casting for his upcoming movie On the Ice.

We've added another chance for everyone in Fairbanks to audition last minute. Here are the details:

Monday, November 16th
2-4:30pm
UAF Wood Center
Conference Room A

We haven't met enough of UAF's talented Inuit students! We are sure there are more people on campus interested in trying out, so don't miss your chance. We'd love to meet you! Email me if you have any questions at casting@ontheicethemovie.com

The 27th Annual Athabascan Fiddle Festival

2009-11-12T14:46:00.000-08:00

AFN October 22-24

2009-10-20T12:36:00.000-07:00

AFN is almost here and this year they are doing a live web stream.

Nicholas Galanin Oblique Drift

2009-10-19T10:54:00.000-07:00

grunt gallery, Vancouver, Presents:

Oblique Drift
Nicholas Galanin
October 23, 2009 – December 12, 2009
Opening – Friday Oct. 23rd, 8pm grunt gallery

Artist talk Saturday, October 24, 2009, 2:00 - 3:30 pm,
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
630 Hornby Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.billreidgallery.ca/

Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin brings his transformative work to grunt gallery, which extends from his series, 'The Imaginary Indian' a series that juxtaposes manufactured Northwest Coast masks and French toile. Galanin explores the authentic and inauthentic and how interpretation, appropriation and "cultural drift " inform Northwest Coast art . Showcasing new works from The Curtis Legacy Galanin strips masks, bodies and meaning down to reveal that ,"The real strength in survival of indigenous knowledge and culture lies within the ability to freely and creatively represent ourselves." Shifting the colonial gaze from ethnography to pin-up The Curtis Legacy series includes nude models wearing Indonesian made Tlingit masks, referencing Edward Curtis photographs of the noble savage, these works lay bare the objectification of both the body and the sacred . Both series of works are brought together in Galnin's examination of gloablized culture(s), freedom of cultural expression and the manifestations of change in a world of shifting cultures and ancestral echoes.

Nicholas Galanin was born in Sitka, Alaska, Nicholas Galanin has struck an intriguing balance between his origins and the course of his practice. Having trained extensively in 'traditional' as well as 'contemporary' approaches to art, he pursues them both in parallel paths. His stunning bodies of work simultaneously preserve his culture and explore new perceptual territory. Galanin comes from a long line of Northwest Coast artists, starting with his great-grandfather, who sculpted in wood, down through his father, who works in both precious metal and stone. Galanin studied at the London Guildhall University, where he received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts with honors in Jewelry Design and Silversmithing. Soon after, Galanin discovered a graduate arts program at Massey University in New Zealand that meshed perfectly with his interests and concerns, and in 2004 he began earning a Master's degree there in Indigenous Visual Arts. Valuing his culture as highly as his individuality, Galanin has created an unusual path for himself. He deftly navigates "the politics of cultural representation," as he balances both ends of the aesthetic spectrum. With a fiercely independent spirit, Galanin has found the best of both worlds and has given them back to his audience in stunning form.

http://nicholasgalanin.com/

For More Information Please Contact:
Demian Petryshyn
Programming and Communications Coordinator
604.875.9516 / demian@grunt.ca

grunt gallery
116 - 350 E. 2nd
Vancouver, BC V5T 4R8
grunt.ca

The Indian Arts Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico seeks Native and First Nations artists to apply for its upcoming artist fellowships for 2010-2011.

2009-10-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

The Indian Arts Research Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico seeks Native and First Nations artists to apply for its upcoming artist fellowships for 2010-2011. Please forward to any artists, list serves, and individuals who may be interested.

The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) offers three artist-in-residence fellowships annually to advance the work of mature and emerging Native artists. Each fellowship includes a $3,000 monthly stipend, housing, studio space, supplies allowance, and travel reimbursement to and from SAR. These fellowships provide time for artists to explore new avenues of creativity, grapple with new ideas to further advance their work, and to strengthen existing talents. The fellowships support diverse creative disciplines and can include sculpture, performance, basketry, painting, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, photography, pottery, music, writing, and film.

Artist fellows must live on the SAR campus, complete a project resulting in the creation of one or more works, and make a public presentation at the end of their fellowship. While in residence, artists can access the IARC collection of Native arts for research and study.
Additionally, SAR would like to see the fellow's work represented in the object, archives, or photo collection; therefore, the fellowships request the donation of a single piece created while working at SAR. If selected for the fellowship, artists must agree to participate in interviews, photo sessions, video recordings, and exit interviews to document the fellow's process and progress. This information will be entered into the IARC archives to serve as a permanent public record.
Deadline to apply is January 15, 2010.

This application cycle includes: the Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellowship 2010, Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellowship 2010, and Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellowship for Native Women 2011. To download the application, read the FAQ, or find out more about the fellowships, visit: http://artists.sarweb.org

Completed applications must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010. There are absolutely no exceptions to the date. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. Any supplementary materials submitted will not be considered or returned. Notifications will be sent approximately four months after the application deadline. Questions may be directed to (505) 954-7205 or poon@sarsf.org.

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About the School for Advanced Research: The School for Advanced Research provides a dynamic environment for the advanced study and communication of knowledge about human culture, evolution, history, and creative expression. SAR draws upon its century-deep roots in the American Southwest, anthropology, and indigenous arts to present programs, publications and initiatives that impart the learning of social scientists, humanists, and artists to inform the thoughts and actions of scholars, artists, educators, and the interested public.

Ukjese van Kampen is our honored guest resident artist this September.

2009-09-15T16:36:00.000-07:00

Ukjese has been a soldier/marine/pilot/teacher/jail guard/photographer artist and man of action. In his spare time he is doing a PhD in Yukon Aboriginal Art History.

Please join us for a public talk by Ukjese on Tuesday September 15^th at 5:30pm in the UAF Fine Arts Complex, Music 301

There is free parking after 5:00pm on the UAF campus.

http://tonywade.blogspot.com
http://aboriginalunderground.blogspot.com/2009/01/ukjese-van-kampen.html
http://www.motionbox.com/videos/0a94d5b7191feeca87?iid=switch_player_&type=hd

Find more artworks like this on artreview.com

Abel L. Ryan B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition CHANGING FACES

2009-05-11T14:53:00.000-07:00

Opening reception
Monday, May 11, 2009 5PM - 8PM
Gallery Hours: 8AM - 5PM
or by appointment
May 11, 2009 to May 22, 2009
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Fine Arts Gallery
312 Art Wing Fine Arts Complex
99775
(907)474-7530
alwysabel@hotmail.com

Phillip John Charette, "Aarnaquq" Public Talk

2009-04-17T13:41:00.000-07:00

Phillip John Charette, "Aarnaquq" will be doing a public lecture of his work on April 23rd at 3:45pm in Room 301 Music, fine arts complex.

Phillip John Charette, "Aarnaquq" will be at the Native Arts Center from the 20th-24th

2009-04-15T10:59:00.000-07:00

Phillip will be working in the classroom sharing his knowledge with the students.

Here is a statement by the artist from his web site.
http://www.yupikmask.com
Phillip John Charette, "Aarnaquq"
Alaskan Native Artist Statement

I am an Alaska Native Yup'ik artist specializing in sculpture, Yup'ik spirit masks, and Native musical instruments. While involved in art throughout my life, I began work as a full-time artist in 2001. Through a hands-on investigative and exploratory approach, my art expresses elements of traditional Yup'ik spirituality, cosmology, and power. My art is rooted in historic and traditional Yup’ik “ways of being” learned throughout my life. But, I utilize my own contemporary style, form, and perspectives in creating artwork. Spirits, Yup'ik cosmology, and spiritual beings are my primary subject matter.

As a mixed media artist I work with numerous materials which include clay, wood, driftwood, glass, metal, stone, glass beads, rawhide, porcelain, feathers, quills, shells, bones, paint, and found objects. A rare Yup’ik art form, pottery is a foundation for my work. Clay sculptures are low fired or raku fired in home made kilns. All teeth, bones, and spirits are hand made of high-fired porcelain. A flame worker, I make my own glass beads. Driftwood masks and sculptures are hand carved in a contemporary style. Traditional wood bending techniques are used in making spirit mask frames and Yup'ik drums. Native American style flutes are concert quality and made of hardwoods and low fired clays (including smoke fired, horse hair fired, and raku) .

My artistic goals are achieved though constant exploration and discovery of new methodologies, utilizing new materials, and in exploring new art forms. Future artistic goals include monumental work, working directly with bronze, large fused glass, metal sculpture, prints, and precious metal work. Finally, I hope to push the boundaries of traditional art bringing attention to new possibilities in the mixed media art world. And, I hope to expose and educate people about the spiritual world of Yup’ik art.

And here's a great interview with the Artist.

http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/videos/view/61-Phillip-Charette

Mike Croskrey mask making workshop

2009-04-10T10:32:00.001-07:00

Mike Croskrey will be conducting a mask making workshop April 17th and 18th, from 9:00am-4:30 pm at the Native Art Center. Croskrey received a MFA from the Native Arts Center in 2002 and is back to share his skills with the community.

Tanya Aguiñiga public lecture

2009-04-07T15:18:00.000-07:00

Please join us for a public lecture from our visiting artist Tanya Aguiñiga, on Tuesday April 7th at 3:40 pm in room 301 Music, Fine Arts Complex at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Tanya Aguiñiga (b.1978) is a furniture designer whose work is informed by the complex interactions between Tijuana and San Diego, the cities in which she has spent most of her life. While studying design at San Diego State University, she began working as an educator at the San Diego Museum of Art and created collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists’ group that engages the languages of activism and community- based public art. After earning an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design in 2005, Aguiñiga settled in Los Angeles where she designs and hand makes all of her work.

Her sensitivity to materials and interest in creating furniture that responds to the user’s spatial needs have resulted in a playful and organic modernist approach to form. She hopes to deepen her commitment to ethical design by working with traditional artisans, connecting local craft traditions with a global economy. Her work has been exhibited from Mexico City to Milan and she was recently named a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts. She is currently an artist in residence at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts and created “Toddler Texture Forest” an installation at the New Children’s Museum in San Diego.