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| I love the rusty metal AH HA building |
The last stop on my July, 2015, First Friday Art Crawl in Tulsa was at AH HA. So glad I made it to this one! All Native American works and what a treat it was!!! I apologize for not recording the names of all of these works. I was so engrossed in the work that I simply forgot! I was deeply moved by both artists but managed to photograph more of Sense's compositions than of Goshorn's baskets. Again, I was touched by the works and did not document properly. I recommend that you go to Goshorn's website listed below to see more of her fabulous baskets. It is worth your time! 
About INTERTWINED
Weaving relies on the careful cultivation and planning for a project that will transcend the limitations of the original material, bound in measured and intertwined parts, to have the potential to hold great burdens within its supportive walls. This is the nature of Intertwined, Stories of Splintered Pasts. Shan Goshorn and Sarah Sense have brought together their shared love of weaving to address the complex political and social history of Native American experiences through artistic examination.
Artist Statements & Perspectives
“The traditional shapes patterns and functions of Cherokee baskets inspire my work, but I am weaving with the contemporary medium of Arches Watercolor paper. Paper (and the written word) has been used as a weapon against Native Americans in the form of treaties, ancestry rolls, laws, restrictions, and more. By creating baskets out of paper printed with a variety of these documents and photographs, my work offers an opportunity to re-examine history from another point of view.”
– Shan Goshorn
Eastern Band Cherokee
“Like photographs, stories are a recorded history, merging time and memory repeatedly both orally and visually. These works in INTERTWINED, Stories of Splintered Pasts focuses on history of family and the placement of self in a community and also as an outsider. An architect once told me, ‘always be an outsider.’ I think that this was his way of understanding international socio-political circumstance when creating community dwellings. I understand it now as a way to think differently, to understand something that may not be within reach emotionally.”
-Sarah Sense
Choctaw / Chitimacha
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| Wall Hanging by Sarah Sense |
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Choctaw Irish Relationship 1
Bamboo paper, rice paper, collograph print, inkjet print,
wax and tape
by
Sarah Sense
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| Detail of Choctaw Irish Relationship 1(above) |
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Color of Conflicting Values
Arches watercolor paper printed with archival inks, acrylic paint, gold foil
by
Shan Goshorm |
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Framed weavings of Choctaw Irish Relationship
Bamboo paper, rice paper, pen and ink, acrylic paint, inkjet pring, wax and tape
by Sarah Sense
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| Detail |
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| Art by Sarah Sense |
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| Detail of work above |
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Her Story, our Legacy
Bamboo paper, rice paper, pen and ink, inkjet prints,
tape, and wax
by Sarah Sense
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| Detail of Her Story, Our Legacy |
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| Detail of Her Story, Our Legacy |
On the second floor at AH HA, Native American Art continued with live painting demos, completed within two hours!
The artists were Brent Greenwood, Micah Wesley, and Matthew Bearden
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| Brent Greenwood, Micah Wesley, and Matthew Bearden painting compositions within a two hour limit |
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| Brent Greenwood turns his painting upside down to work on the canvas |
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| Brent Greenwood's Work in Progress |
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| Brent Greenwood adding the final touches |
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| Micah Wesley painting his composition |
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| View of Micah Wesley's work in progress |
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Be You
Completed painting
by Micah Wesley |
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| Micah Wesley clearing his supplies after the demo |
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| Matthew Bearden paints the face of a Native American |
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Matthew Bearden's painting
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That's it for this post, but I cannot wait to see what is in store for First Friday in August!! |
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