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| Installation of USA Kippy Stroud Fellow Tommy Joseph's art featured in New American Voices at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Photo courtesy Fabric Workshop and Museum. |
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Fall is in the air in Los Angeles. Museum, gallery, and performing arts announcements fill our homes and electronic mailboxes heralding the excitement of the coming season. We look forward to encountering the work of Southern California-based USA Fellows and welcoming several USA Fellows who will be visiting the City of Angels in the coming months. Many are premiering new works in our community, some of which were made possible by their grants from USA.
As the season turns, it's also a time to look back on a wonderful, event-filled summer during which I had the honor and pleasure of visiting a diverse array of communities across the country. Every step of the way I encountered extraordinary works of art, many created by the USA Fellows.
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I made the largest Chilkat blanket in history (7 1/2 feet wide by 6 feet high) with my United States Artists award as a gift to my Chilkat Tlingit tribe.
For 15 years, I took my father, Austin H. Brown, and my children on fishing sojourns to the interior of Alaska. We would begin our driving trips from Haines then travelthrough Athabascan territory in Canada and up the Copper River to harvest salmon with the fish wheels of our adopted Athabascan family.
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In 2006, I enjoyed the great honor and, frankly, relief of winning a fellowship from United States Artists. This only seemed more special when I read the bios of my fellow awardees and discovered what serious and impressive folks my colleagues were. And I thought that if they were such formidable people then maybe I was too.
Well, in August of 2009 I had the pleasure of publishing my new novel, Big Machine, and that finally let me cast aside all doubts about my own literary bonafides. After all, what says "serious artist" more than a novel about secret societies, supernatural events, and a gunfight in the shadow of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge?
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Sitka, Alaska-based Teri Rofkar (Raven Clan) received The National Endowment for the Arts' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. The NEA awarded eleven such fellowships, which include a one-time award of $25,000 each. Rofkar works within the Tlingit weaving tradition and is known world-wide as a teacher, researcher, and weaver of the once-lost art form of the Raven's Tail Robe. Rofkar received a USA Fellowship in 2006 and performed at the inaugural USA Fellows Celebration at Jazz at Lincoln Center, enrobed in one of her remarkable works.
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