Hello everyone, This week we will be breaking into groups for the Alaska Native Art Living history page. This project is born out of my own desire to capture the history that is happening right now in in the Alaska Native Art word. There have been great volumes of work done on the history of Alaska Native Arts, but very little published on the contemporary climate of the arts today. This project was also inspired by the Contemporary North American Indigenous Artists Blog (https://contemporarynativeartists.tumblr.com/) by […]
Monthly Archives: September 2019
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Hello everyone, This week we will start looking at the Artwork from Western Alaska, including the art of the Yup’ik Cup’ik and Siberian Yupik. Please read the Crossroads of Continents pp 46-48, Inua pp 39-46, and Native Art of Alaska pp 49-72. Watch the lectures and then post on the Western Alaska Channel in Slack and take the quiz.
Hello everyone, This week we will start looking at the artwork of the Alutiiq/Sugpiaq and Unangan people. Please read Native Art of Alaska pp 73-87 and Crossroads of Continent pp 52-57. Watch lecture the lecture on pre-colonial artwork, the movie Alute Story and the lecture on the post-colonial artwork on Blackboard. Post your thought on the discussion board and then take the short quiz.
Hello everyone, This week we will start looking at the artwork of Southeast Alaska, or of the Northwest Coast depending on your perspective. Please read Crossroads of Continents pp 58-63, and From the Land of Totem Poles pp 17-26 that you can find in in Blackboard under Module 3 and pp 107-125 in our Native Art of Alaska book. Please watch the video lectures on Blackboard, and take the short quiz. Sealaska Heritage Institute has been publishing some great videos on Formline design […]
Hello everyone, This week we will be framing the class with a discussion on tradition, a term that often is applied to Alaska Native art. Please read Native Art of Alaska the Introduction(pp xxi-xxxi) chapter, 1 “The Nature of Tradition’ pp 1-21 and chapter 4 “Genres, Boundaries and Ways of Making’ pp 127-164. Watch the short lecture on Tradition in our Blackboard site. Post your response in the Tradition Channel of Slack. If you were not able to get the book yet I’ve uploaded the […]