Feb 23 2010
A note from Flip Breskin about Roeder Home Event this Thursday
Hi Trish -
Christine Kendall suggested I get hold of you. We’ve got a very cool event coming up at the Roeder Home this coming Thursday, and she thought you might be interested, and possibly help us spread the word. One of the top experts in North America on pre-contact Native Pigments is doing a presentation. I’m not as well-connected in the visual arts community as I am with the folk musicians so I’m doing some last-minute scrambling. Just in case, here’s a write-up:
SPECIAL EVENT: NATIVE PIGMENTS
Thursday, Feb 25 Roeder Home 2600 Broadway, Bellingham
7:30 $8-$12 suggested donation
The Roeder Home was built on Native land, and it is a pleasure invite Native artists to share this old Home fully, and to share their art and heritage with the larger community at the same time. Please come help welcome them home!
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So, what DID they use for paint? Look at those old totem poles and masks, their paint patinaed by age and wear, their once-rich colors almost erased by time: just what did Pacific NW Natives use to make that paint which has, in some cases, endured more than 400 years of embellishing Native objects.
Artist, educator and researcher, and recipient of a 2009 Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Award, Melonie Ancheta of Copper Woman Studio will share some of what she’s learned in the past 13 years of researching pre-contact paint technology among the NW Coast Natives. She’ll display and discuss samples of the pigments used and will address the importance of researching and preserving this information. You’ll be able to see some of the methods and materials such as handmade paint brushes and stone and mortar grinding used in the manufacture of paints. Oh, and of course, you’ll learn what human spit has to do with paint.
Co-sponsored by the Friends Of The Roeder Home and the Whatcom Family & Community Network.
Thank you VERY much for any help you can give!
love/Fl!p
360-671-4511
2518 Cherry Street
Bellingham WA 98225
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