Jon Van Zyle's "Homer by the Bay", sold exclusively at the Art Shop Gallery, Homer Alaska $75
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Ken Lisbourne
An Inupiaq artist from Point Hope, Ken Lisbourne is married to Iva Lisbourne, a respected doll maker.
In the 1890s, Eskimos in northwestern Alaska were introduced to paper, watercolors, crayons and pencils by teachers from mission and government schools. The drawings produced as a consequence of this cultural fusion derive from the aboriginal traditions of pictographs, petroglyphs ("rock art") and scrimshaw.
In the 20th century many native artists who, in centuries past, would have drawn in snow or incised hunt tallies or calendars on bone, have adopted mediums such as reindeer skin, paper and canvas.
While most native artists learned primarily from relatives, Ken Lisbourne thinks to be technically schooled in fine arts and Native arts was also vital to his profession as a Native artist. Ken works in both watercolor and colored pencil on paper.
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Last Updated 06/10/2008