Hanna Sholl Sugpiaq artist My name is Hanna Sholl, my Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) name is Agasuuq, meaning cormorant. I was born in Kodiak, Alaska to Sophie Frets (Hansen) and Bruce Burns. My maternal grandparents were Walter and Edna Hansen. I introduce myself in this way to honor my ancestry, homelands, and relationships, each of which informs my art. With my artwork, my hopes are to always honor the resistance and creativity of our ancestors, combining present day with traditional methods. Currently I am working primarily […]
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Interviewee: Preston Singletary Interviewers: Stacy Chavis, Katelyn Zuray Date of Interview: 11/13/2020 Location of Interview: Zoom call Note- This transcript has been edited. The edits were made to remove false starts and vocal fillers. The edits have been made with the intent of making the transcript easier to read, and to make the intentions and meaning of Preston more clear. Katelyn Zuray You’ve spoken often about your upbringing in Seattle and your Filipino-Alaskan Native heritage. How was your art influenced by your heritage, your oral […]
Lily Hope Who has been the most influential person in your journey as an artist? That one is kind of easy. My mother Clarissa Rizal. R-I-Z-A-L. (She) was an artist my entire life. I just talked to my sister about this yesterday, but we can’t remember her ever doing things that we wanted to do with her. Like if we were like” hey play Yahtzee with us!” She was like, “oh come over here and you know stir this dye pot or put these buttons […]
Sketch by artist Eli Pasco of David working on wooden masks with his sons, in the open artists’ studio, a space created by the Burke Museum, part of the University of Washington’s Museum of Natural History and Pacific Northwest culture. “This space, created for artists to present work that is in progress and to give them a chance to interact with the public and share their craft and knowledge”(Pasco, 2019). David Boxley, a Tsimshian artist, and carver from Metlakatla, Alaska, owes the inspiration for his […]
Sheri:- Well, first of all thank you so much for taking time to, you know, out of your day and your day off to meet with us and, um, you know we’ve had a chance to go over some of your, your work, different interviews, and, uh, the importance of a native artist but I think want to give you a forum to kind of go over a little bit of your own bio, and then we have the questions, so um, um, don’t know […]
Margaret: Hi, Everyone John you know me. These are my classmates. We are currently enrolled in Alaska native studies through the University of Alaska Fairbanks. So the reason we are interviewing you is this is a part of a living history project were we are trying to interview contemporary artists that might not be in our history books yet. So first we just want to thank you for setting aside some time for us. We appreciate it. John: I am glad to. Margaret: And we […]
Transcript of Artist Interview with Jenny Irene Miller Robert: Hello, this addition to the Alaska Native Art Living History Project is an interview with the artist Jenny Irene Miller. Miller is an Albuquerque, New Mexico and Anchorage, Alaska-based artist currently pursuing an MFA in Photography at the University of New Mexico. This interview was conducted on April 21st, 2020 by myself, Robert Willcox, and my collaborators Josie Heyano, Bob Hook, and Katy Tomter. To find out more about Jenny Irene Miller […]
Interviewer: Melissa Langley Jones Transcribed by Rose Hendrickson Melissa: So where are you originally from? Kipo: I’m originally from Unalakleet, Alaska. Melissa: And could you tell me about your family, how many siblings, tell me about your parents, and what life was like with your family? Kipo: Ok, I was the youngest of nine children, and I, basically I was born in Unalakleet, but left Unalakleet when I was only five or six, and we moved to Anchorage. Melissa: Oh wow. Kipo: […]
An interview with Allison Akootchook Warden Allison Akootchook Warden is a multidisciplinary artist of Iñupiaq descent from Alaska. A multidisciplinary artist, Warden is a recipient of 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Artistic Fellowship in the field of Music, a 2018 Rasmuson Individual Artist Fellowship in the field of New Genre. For many people, 2020 has been a year of change and transition. That is true for Alaska-based artist Allison Akootchook Warden. Allison, who has ancestral ties to the North Slope village of Kaktovik, […]
Congratulations everyone for a great semester and a great team project. Here is the link for the Living Alaska Native Art History Project site. Have a great Holiday. https://art365.community.uaf.edu/category/alaska-native-art-living-history-project/
Here are some example from past classes (https://art365.community.uaf.edu/category/alaska-native-art-living-history-project/ ). And some other Artist Interviews sites https://the-talks.com/interviews/art/ https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/qa/the-best-interviews-of-2017-55172 https://contemporarynativeartists.tumblr.com/ As you can see there are many different approaches to representing the Artist your is working with. Some are text only, some have a few images, some are image intense and some have an image of the artist. There is no right way to compose the post and the structure of our website might not directly reflect the team’s design, but this will give everyone a chance […]
Hello everyone, This week we are waiting for the artist interviews to be finished by the artist, if they have not responded by the end of the week a friendly reminder should be sent out to see if they can still participate. While waiting to hear back from the artist please read Chapter 7 out of Alaska Native Art and post your comments in the # Process channel of #slack.
These question should be based on the research your team has done and should be specific to their artistic practice, worldview, medium, or other questions that come up in the team’s research. Your team could also work on broader question based on the Fair’s book Alaska Native Art: Tradition Innovation Continuity, or on the broader Decolonizing movement happening in the Indigenous arts world.
Hello everyone, Once your team has had confirmation from an artist to participate start compiling information on the artist, to help assist in the formation of relevant questions for that specific artist, in the form of an annotated bibliography. You can also use your group’s google folder to upload any articles or images, that you would like to share with the group. I am not requiring a minimum of resources as some artist are have more written about them than others, but I want to […]
This week we will be working with our groups to start thinking about an artist for the project. I have provided a short-list of Alaska Native Artist that have a website as a way to get started, but this is not a complete list and your choice of artist is not restricted to this list. Your group should come up with at least 2-3 artists as possible interviewees in case someone is too busy to respond. Your group can also start thinking about how to […]
Hello again everyone, This week we will look be looking at the artwork of interior Alaska or the Athabascan people of Alaska. Please read The Athapaskans: Stranger of the North pp 19-42, and Alaska Native Art pp 89-106. Watch the videos on Athabascan art, post your comments to the Interior Alaska channel of Slack and take the short quiz.
Hello everyone, This week we will be looking at the artwork from Northern Alaska, or from the Inupiaq people. Please read Native Art of Alaska pp 25-49 and Crossroads of Continents pp 44-45, watch the video lectures on Blackboard, post your comments on the Northern Alaska channel in Slack and take the short quiz. Next week is spring break and there will be no assignment for the week but I will post further instruction on the group project if you would like to get a […]