Watch contemporary Ts’msyen artist David R. Boxley present at our 40th Anniversary Celebration! Thank you for joining us and sharing your work and research, David!
Learn more about Boxley and his work here: https://stoningtongallery.com/artist/david-r-boxley/
David created a special limited edition print in honor of the gallery and our anniversary titled Huk Dzap. Learn more about the print and its meaning here: https://stoningtongallery.com/artwork/huk-dzap-the-artist-limited-edition-print/
Watch contemporary Haida artist Isabel Rorick present at our 40th Anniversary Celebration! Thank you for joining us and sharing your work and practice, Isabel!
Learn more about Rorick and her work here: https://stoningtongallery.com/artist/isabel-rorick/
Watch contemporary Puyallup artist Qwalsius Shaun Peterson present at our 40th Anniversary Celebration! Thank you for joining us and sharing your work and research, Shaun!
Learn more about Peterson and his work: https://stoningtongallery.com/artist/shaun-peterson/
Watch contemporary Tlingit artist Alison Bremner present at our 40th Anniversary Celebration! Thank you for joining us and sharing your work and research, Alison!
Learn more about Bremner and her work here:
Stonington Gallery will close early on Dec. 31 and remain closed on Jan 1. We’ll re-open as normal on Jan 2.
Please note that due to the New Year’s holiday, the First Thursday Artwalk will occur on Jan 9th (Second Thursday).
Have a wonderful New Year’s Eve, and we’ll see you in 2020!
In December 2019 our gallery hit a major milestone: our 40th anniversary! Founded in 1979 by Nancy Taylor Stonington, our staff has worked with hundreds of artists and thousands of clients, helping promulgate a wider and deeper appreciation for the history, peoples, art and traditions, living cultures, and environment of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
On December 8th, we gathered at 101 South Jackson for a series of special events: remarks by David R Boxley, Qwalsius Shaun Peterson, Isabel Rorick, Alison Bremner, and Robert Davidson, and a performance by the Git-Hoan Dance Group led by David A. Boxley. Thank you to everyone who spoke and performed, volunteered and worked, photographed and videotaped, and attended. This celebration was a gift from us to you, to thank you for 40 years of support and camaraderie.
Take a look at some of the special moments from the day. (All photos by Ashley Genevieve for Stonington Gallery.) Video of all the presentations and the Git-Hoan Dancers are at the bottom of this page.
David R. Boxley speaks.
Shaun Peterson speaks.
Isabel Rorick speaks.
Alison Bremner speaks.
Robert Davidson speaks.
Git-Hoan Dancers Perform, Part 1.
Part 2
The gallery will be closed on November 28th, but open for normal hours starting Friday at 10am.
“Over the Seasons” by Thomas Stream.
On Sunday, November 10th our neighborhood will play host to the MLS Cup, and the Sounders will compete for glory! The staff has decided not to try and compete with the 70,000 fans who will descend on Pioneer Square and take the day to stay home and root for the team. Go Sounders! See you on Monday.
Image: Night Sound by Thomas Stream
Earlier this summer, Dan Friday (Lummi) and Lillian Pitt (Wasco/Warm Springs/Yakama) visited the PRATT Fine Arts Studio to work on a collaborative body of work in glass for the second time. The first time this duo worked together, we were fortunate enough to receive the majority of the works, but this time the bulk of the work will go straight to the Missoula Art Museum for a special exhibition.
Petroglyphs (rock engravings) and pictographs (rock paintings) are an important part of the rich cultural heritage of the the Columbia River people. Archaeologists estimate that the oldest of them could be between 6,000-7,000 years old. At one time there were roughly 90 sites along the Columbia River, in the stretch of land between Pasco, Washington to the east, and The Dalles, Oregon, to the west. Many of these sites were either inundated or destroyed when The Dalles and the John Day dams were put into service, and are now lost to the world forever.
Lillian produced two different styles of stencils based on the ancient petroglyphs of the Columbia River Gorge. Some of the shapes are made from glass, and are fused straight into the glass vessels, rolled in as Dan works the glass. Other stencils are made of metal, and Lillian sifts glass powder (frit) over them to make a negative image. Dan rolls the gather of glass over the powder and picks up the negative shape, making a subtle “ghost” of the shape in the layers of glass. Some of these processes can be seen in the video, above.
We had a blast watching Dan Friday and Lillian Pitt creating collaborative works in glass at Pratt Fine Arts Center a few months ago. Our photographer, the wonderful Ashley Genevieve, created this video to share insight into the process of blowing and fusing these unique vessels. Three of the vessels that resulted from this blow were part of Dan Friday’s September exhibition at our gallery, and the remainder are now on exhibit at the Missoula Art Museum as part of Lillian’s solo exhibition!
Click here to see all of the works–past and present–that resulted from this dynamic collaboration.
The gallery will be closed on September 2 in observance of Labor Day. Normal hours resume on Tuesday at 10am, when we will begin to install our September exhibition, “Salish Brilliance: Dan Friday & Maynard Johnny, Jr.”
Below:
“Blueberry Hill” by Allie High (Aleut/Haida/Ts’msyen)
We are pleased to welcome Canadian artist Maynard Johnny, Jr. (Penelakut/Kwakwaka’wakw) to the gallery for a live painting demo on Saturday, August 17. He will be working on pieces that will make their debut in his exhibition in September, and this is a fantastic opportunity to watch the artist at work and to preview next month’s show.
Free to attend.
Maynard Johnny Jr. was born April 4, 1973 in Campbell River, British Columbia. He is of Penelakut (Coast Salish) and Kwakwaka’wakw descent and has been designing Native art since the age of seventeen. His paintings and serigraphs exemplify the gracefulness of the Coast Salish two-dimensional design system. Being more of a painter than a carver, the elegance of line and boldness of color in Maynard Johnny Jr.s’ art has made an important contribution in bringing these ancient forms into the contemporary realm. Johnny’s work has been strongly influenced by Robert Davidson, Susan Point, Mark Henderson and Art Thompson.
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