From September 2016 to April 2017 I attended Langara Reconciliation Carving Cohort. This was my online journey- a collection of research, thoughts, feelings, work and anything that would aid me and others to help the next 7 generations.
Showing posts with label Lattimer Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lattimer Gallery. Show all posts
Reconciliation Carving Cohort : A visit to the Lattimer Gallery
Last class for the semester and as a treat Aaron Nelson Moody invited us all to go to the Lattimer Gallery http://www.lattimergallery.com/ where Peter was our gracious host.
We got to see the Charity Bentwood Boxes
From the website:
Join us for the final night of bidding for our
Annual Charity Bentwood Boxes event. Artists will be in attendance,
refreshments will be served, and you will be able to witness the frenzy
of the last minute bids on these amazing steam-bent boxes.
Lattimer Gallery has the unique, warm atmosphere of a Northwest
Longhouse. We offer a fascinating display of gold and silver jewellery,
argillite carvings, soapstone sculptures, bentwood boxes, masks, totem
poles, and much more. In our "longhouse" we also feature a large
selection of original paintings and limited edition prints by many well
known Native artists. We want you to be swept away by the selection and
quality of art that we house here at Lattimer Gallery.
We were really blessed in class yesterday, Sharifah Marsden came by for a visit. It was very inspirational. She has such a gentle spirit and is was very sharing.
I felt very grateful to sit with her and chat for a few minutes. Very interestingly she attended Langara back in 2001 (I believe she said) and I attended in 1993-95 so we had that in common.
Here is her bio from there
"Sharifah Marsden is an Anishinaabe artist from the Mississaugas of
Scugog Island First Nation. Since early childhood, Sharifah has been
directed toward a life of art and culture. She draws from her Ojibway
roots and knowledge of Woodlands art to create unique works that include
everything from acrylic paintings to beadwork to engraving.
In 2009,
Sharifah graduated from Vancouver's Northwest Coast Jewellery Arts
program under established Haida/Kwakwaka'wakw artist Dan Wallace. In
2010, Sharifah worked with artists Richard Shorty and Jerry Whitehead,
among others, to complete Western Canada’s largest mural along on the
outer wall of the Orwell Hotel located at 456 East Hasting in Vancouver.
In 2014, she graduated from two years of formal training in the
European goldsmithing tradition at the Vancouver Metal Arts School under
the instruction of Gerold Mueller. At the Vancouver Metal Arts School
she learned hollow form design, complex soldering techniques, and stone
setting. In April of 2015, Sharifah had her first solo exhibition at
Lattimer Gallery entitled Sharifah Marsden - Miigwetch. It featured jewellery pieces created during her time at the Vancouver Metal Arts School, as well as a number of paintings."
I found this video below online, it's from back in 2009.
What she says at 4:40 just brings tears to my eyes. I was so emotional during our class yesterday.
We were talking about babies and the pure love they give and pure joy you receive. I've been so blessed with my daughter, she's growing up so quick now.
I have been blessed with caring for another little girl lately and there is nothing more beautiful than when you pick them up, say from a nap or something and they just snuggle into your shoulder and your heart is near their heart, that sweet soft chubby little body just sort of melting into yours as you hold them and they just radiate love.
It's POWERFUL!!! It's so healing. It's hard for me to put into words just the feeling of that beautiful trust and personal self- knowledge that you can meet their needs and keep them safe, happy and secure. Sharifah's paintings are so gorgeous and really capture the joy of love, intimacy, pregnancy and birth. I was very moved. I really feel grateful she came to class yesterday and shared her work and words with us.
And she's going to be at the Eastside Culture Crawl, so don't miss that!!
I haven't actually ever been, but my girl is older now so I hope to go this year.
"A four-day visual arts, design and crafts festival receiving more than 25,000
visitors to 475+ artists in their studios across 78 buildings in the area bounded by
Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive and the waterfront in Vancouver, Canada.
"
