Reworking the Bass Sculpture 2

Adding new components/possibilities to the sculpture.
Pics click to enlarge.

Lengthen neck of "deer/moose-like critter" and begin adding paper.


Add a mask to opposite side; create relief component with modeling clay.


Broaden and reshape tail with wire, add paper.




Hotglue smaller mask(trimmed for angle), then start paper.



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Web Of Life Enterprises is a resource helping Native Peoples in South Dakota.

Looking for some creative inspiration? Here's a little-project page that may get you out of your artistic block.

A South American "Stonehenge-reminiscent" boulder circle has been 'found' by researchers in Brazil (The locals knew about it, already.).

A call for the impeachment of the vice prez, in GQ Magazine.

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Reworking the bass sculpture 1

Click pics for enlarged view.

Starting, by adding wire outline to dorsal fin.


Adding some paper.


Adding modeling clay, to outline relief addition.


Using styrofoam to build depth to relief.


Waiting for papier-mache to dry, before adding more paper.


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Bass Herd, on McIrvine Ave. My current wallpaper.



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Update: Coral-Stitch beadwork necklace; finished. (See previous posting.)



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"Native Sounds Free Concert"
Trickster Gallery, Schaumburg, Illinois, March 3, 2007.
Click poster for enlargement.



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dead mascots, failure of the Hippies, mugs and coral stitch

"Chief Illiniwek" (UoI) may have started as a sincere attempt to honour Native Americans and educate students, but had become a source of contention between Native American community/students and the university's sports fans, alumni and administration. What had once been an attempt at intercultural exchange has lately felt like mockery when the "honoured" ask, plead, then demand an end.

The Chief is history, at the University of Illinois.

Dislodging Chief Wahoo could be a little harder. Pic clicks to article.
"Symbolic Racism: Chief Wahoo and the Cleveland Indians"
by James V. Fenelon, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, John Carroll University (1997)

Excerpts:

" 1915 - This first Wahoo is closer to the "Indian" on a buffalohead nickel and is less stereotypical and more humanlike.
In 1928,this brightly colored head appeared on the team uniforms. It marked a first step toward cartoon stylization.
In 1947, the team unveiled this blatantly demeaning face, the first to be called "chief wahoo". The large hooked nose, toothy grin, gleaming eyes and exaggerated cheekbones,add up to a ridiculous, ugly image. "

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Why did the 1960's and the "Baby-Boomers" fail to make a better world?

Read this article, at Strike The Root.

From the article:

"War (in Korea , Vietnam , Grenada , Panama , the Balkans, Afghanistan , Iraq , etc.)
Alleged reason: Compassion, expressed by liberating foreigners from tyrants, protecting Americans from supposed danger, and spreading American-style democracy.
Actual results include death for millions, including over 655,000 Iraqi civilians since the 2003 invasion; the moral and financial bankrupting of America; over 700 US military bases on foreign soil (imagine the annual expense for a single such base); a military budget larger than the next 20 biggest military spenders combined; extremely widespread emotional damage among the civilian and military survivors of war and their children; increasing disrespect and outright hatred for America by people around the globe. "

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Broken Vulture Art papier-mache, in the Bingorage studio. Click to enlarge.












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Working on a new necklace, with coral-stitched segments. Juxtaposed different bead strands, to get a feel for what the finished product might look like. Comments? Suggestions? Favourites?
Pics click to enlarge.


Coral-stitch segments, with shell composition.

"Goldstone"


Opaque scarlet glass


Rose Quartz


transparent blue glass chips


Turquoise


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Random stuff:

Aboriginal publisher, Theytus Books is accepting submissions, but check out their guidelines (That means: YOU; don't even think of shovelling five pounds of scribbled-on napkins, cardboard and birchbark into a shoebox and send it COD).

The website of Roy Boney, Cherokee illustrator.

En'owkwin Centre

" En'owkin provides students with a strong cultural and academic foundation for success in further post-secondary studies. Many former En'owkin students have gone on to become nationally and internationally known writers, artists and educators, have completed graduate degrees, are currently in degree programs, and are leaders in their communities. "

Cool story from regular contributor to Indian Country Today website, Richard Wagamese

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midwinter or late winter

A January sunset in Fort Frances. Click to enlarge.


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The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) is accepting applications for Project Phoenix (downloadable application on page).

" Project Phoenix offers an intensive week-long journalism camp called Rising Voices. Native American high school students learn newswriting, photojournalism and will get exposed to broadcasting and radio. At the end of the week, the students' articles and photos will be published in the Rising Voices newspaper, and will later be posted on the Native Voice Online Web site.
The program provides travel expenses, housing, meals, and class materials."

Deadline to apply: February 23, 2007. Please post and forward to NA high school students. As far as I know, this is USA residents only.


I was a chaperone for the Project Phoenix in Seattle, about ten years ago. I didn't get involved with the newspaper production, but I did get to tour: the multiple personality newspaper, known as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Pike Place Market and its famous flying fishies, Northwest Coast Native-themed dinner-theatre at Tillicum Village, on Blake Island (Quite a production and salmon roasted right in front of you. There are fresh clams waiting for you when you get off the boat and an amazing interpretive centre. I really recommend this place, when you're next in Seattle.). Also took in a couple workshops; good stuff.

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Random stuff:

Bureau of Land Management to Sell Sacred Lands for Oil & Gas in Utah

Wikipedia article about frybread.

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith showing at the Muscarelle Museum of Art from February 10 - April 8, 2007.(Williamsburg, Virginia)

Denver Post article about NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act).

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An Allan Houser statuette was stolen from the Joseph Gierek Art Gallery in Tulsa. From the kotv.com article:

"The sculpture has several identifying marks. Houser's name is at the base of the bronze, it has an edition number of 24 out of 50, there’s a foundry stamp of AHI and year 1994."

Sioux with Rattle and Fan
16" X 6" X 3"

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Wiarton Willy said early Spring.
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Cardweaving and catpoo

Update February 11, 2007: Added 4 pics of bag being finished, in Bingorage Studio (below earlier pics).

I started doing some cardweaving with my adult art group, last week; started a few different pieces myself. One of my group members heard me fantasizing out loud about converting knitting needles into large sewing needles for yarn, so she volunteered a couple old pairs. I took them to the studio, cut off the knobs, drilled out the ends and then melted the rough edges with a flame.
The new yarn sewing needles work great.

I'm mixing hemp twine, jute, beads (idea from group), wool and acrylic yarn.
The traditional Ojibwa bags were finger-woven on a stick frame (since the cardboard trees had not been introduced to North America, at the time), using Basswood fibre, Stinging Nettle fibre, Cedar bark, etc.

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My artsy fartsy bag photo.
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Native Tech weaving and cordage page.


This pic shows dried Stinging Nettle stalks and a bag, hand-woven with processed and died nettle fibres.


Click pic for University of Minnesota article, where photo was found.

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Holly brought a couple new members of the family with her, when we moved her back from Ottawa. This is Johnny, the round one. I couldn't find Sage, the little fraidy orange one.



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Orange heads have more phun and ... mural ideas

All pics click to enlarge.

Krustayn Versus Mecha Sasquatch details; Krustayn head in panels 1 through 4.


Panel 1


Panel 2


Panel 3


Panel 4

KVMS Gallery, at Zoto.com

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Roadside attraction in Hearst, Ontario.





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Couple of Broken Vulture Art mural ideas for the local arena walls.


Kenora Thistles and Stanley Cup... Regional hockey history.



Ken Dryden's 'Target' mask from the 70's... Canadian hockey history.

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Random and not-so-random links:

Get free* 160 year-old sourdough starter from Carl's friends.
*Free; plus postage, etc.

Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling, at Common Dreams

Free online book by Noam Chomsky, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, at Zmag.

Nipigon mill destroyed by fire. Northern Ontario towns rely -too heavily perhaps- on primary resource jobs for the economy. It would be optimistic to hope that a new mill could be rebuilt within a couple years.

"Native/Treaty rights" and the endangered species act clash when it comes to shooting eagles.

Native American Film Commission

" The NAFC is the first film commission in the USA to be dedicated to all aspects of Native representation in the film and television industry. It encourages economic development and education, on Native lands and for Native people.

The NAFC will address the opportunities, questions and concerns tribal leaders have about filming on tribal lands and in casinos. We will serve as a liaison between the tribes and the production companies to insure that proper respect of sacred sites and cultural sensitivity is adhered to; as well as insuring that all permits, safety standards, and logistics are managed thoroughly and legally. "

Alaska Native Heritage Center

Native filmmaker Phil Lucas died Feb 4, 2007. Obituary at Seattle Times.

Micheal Geist discussing how Canada is losing battle for net neutrality.
Related CBC story.

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