Seneca artist wins quilting award, aims higher
Lone, a member of the Tonawanda Band of Seneca Indians, was awarded a prestigious prize from the organization in June: the Purchase Award for a piece she named "Grand Entry." The award is given to only one entry in the juried art show, and the artwork was purchased for $5,000 for the museum's permanent collection.
The breathtaking masterpiece, as her friends and family have come to call it, depicts a complete pow wow scene on a 104 inches x 98 inches broken star king-size quilt in blues on a white background. It features nearly 100 stitched figures as dancers, drummers, staff and spectators, and even showcases a mainstay of pow wows: the Indian taco booth. She said it took her about 18 total hours to complete the project.
4 comments:
Writerfella here --
There is a Native quilting masterpiece that hangs in a huge glass case at 14th USAF HQ in Virginia. The quilt was sewn by writerfella's mother and the ladies auxiliary of the Kiowan Tohn-Kohn-Gaw (BlackLeggings) Society for presentation by writerfella to the commanding general of the 14th Air Force (reactivated). It features a huge central motif of the 'Flying Tiger' that Chinese women constructed back in the 1940s. writerfella gave that quilt to his USAF commanders in 1968. Someday, another writer will discover that Native quilt and try to tell the story of its origins...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
If people Google your quilt, they'll eventually come across this comment. That'll give them a head start on the story of its origin.
FYI, Newspaper Rock will be around long after you're gone (contrary what you asserted elsewhere). So will its news and reviews of stereotypes, mascots, and other Native issues. As well as your appropriate and inappropriate notes about yourself.
That's why I have to laugh when you tell us "people are watching." Yeah, they're watching you cast your personal peccadilloes in stone. If I provide for this website's continuation, people will be reading our exchanges for centuries to come. All my winning arguments will be available to future Native researchers.
Writerfella here --
Unfortunately not. Consider this: when writerfella entered the internet milieu, any internet participant could receive $$$ simply by responding to emails. writerfella made $675 in his first foray. Find even one of those now, Rob, and also name one of the sites. The internet rightly sometimes is called the 'ethernet.' It either evaporates or becomes as ephemeral as an AARP newsletter. If you think differently, writerfella knows of a huge tract of Louisiana swampland that should tickle your sensibilities...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
We already know you don't understand the Internet. People can maintain domain names and websites indefinitely if they're willing to pay for it. To carry on after they're gone, they can hire someone to maintain the system, or deed it to a library or archive.
As for your examples, no one wanted to preserve them, so no one did. I want to preserve my site, so I will. Get it?
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