2009 SOK Vol 32 NW Coast Native Glass Sculpture

Описание: Glass sculpture by Northwest Coast artists: Illuminating the Past:
Amy Chan: teachers art history at the University of Arizona
1:00 summarizes her presentation
2:00 history of glassmaking, and advances upon coming to N America.
2:45 glass beads quickly absorbed in Native culture
3:00
1962 molten glass developed that could be easily shaped
3:44 process of working with glass as with cedar

5:00 PowerPoint of Preston Singletary’s artwork and analysis
7:00 headdresses as artwork; Singletary’s reinterpretation
11:00 Tan’s quote by Singletary about what drives the art
11:35 Marvin Elder (?) expresses reciprocity through his art
18:00 quotes Wayne Price, carver
19:44 Ppt ends, Amy Chan at podium


PRESTON SINGLETARY
Northwest Coast Native Glass Sculpture: A Foot in Two Worlds
20:15 Preston intro in Tlingit; background, Juneau for summer of 1981, grandmother grew up in Sitka, Sheldon Jackson, husband killed, married Japanese man. Preston mother from first marriage. Grandmother proud of heritage, gave all grands Tlingit names
25:00 music & Tlingit art his passion; met his mentor David (??)
27:00 learned from people like Steve Brown about Tlingit design
When began with functional art, aunt saw one of his flared glass bowls, and said turned over and that looks just like a spruce root hat
PowerPoint reviews his work, which he explains
37:00 describes his studio work; blowing glass, team of four to five people
39:00 masks, staffs, etc
44:17 techniques for building large pieces
45:00 Haines project with Alaska Indian Arts: Exhibition “Traditions in Glass”
46:00 Pilchuk totem pole project
49:50 casting of glass additions to the pole: Tlingit knife in glass
52:40 completed pole with glass elements: its meaning
53:00 Other indigenous artists’ works in glass.
57:00 Mask: same mold but different artists’ interpretations
58:00 continues with work of other artists
1:00:00 Exibitions of Preston’s work
1:02:00 new work, panel form for “house post”
1:08:00 fell in love with Maori people, cohesive progressive culture
1:10:00 new project: carve wood totem in round seven foot tall and cast it (great grandmother) - a story of family hunting, shooting a bear, found cubs, greatgrandmother raised the cubs as pets. Russian period.
1:12:00 rock and roll muscian
1:16:30
Q&A
exchange with Walter Porter about his relationship with Dan Katzeek, last know Klukwan chief, passed away in 1971. When asked about carving wood, Katzeek said, “Young man, if we had plastic back in the day, we’d be using plastic.” Porter says Katzeek would have approved of the use of glass.
1:27:00 Preston: before it was a marriage of art and industry, but when artists began building small furnaces that started the individual art work in glass. “I connected it with my heritage and art.”