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Mukilteo
couple buys, donates pole
Thanks
to a Mukilteo man, a large piece of Northwest American Indian art has
been saved for posterity.
Charlie
Pancerzewski, a retired accountant and 35-year resident of Mukilteo, paid
more than $30,000 at an auction last month for a carved, authentic Salish
pole with a troubled past. He then donated it to the Burke Museum at the
University of Washington in Seattle.
Pancerzewski
and his wife, Gayle, who is partly descended from the Tlingit tribe of
southeast Alaska, are collectors of Northwest coast art and have donated
money to the museum before.
"The
pole is a great pole," Pancerzewski said. "Extremely well done."
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Stonington
rekindles spirit of Northwest Native American art
Stonington
Gallery has organized an exhibition of work by 14 young Native American
artists, most in their 20s. Many of these artists have studied with older
masters, and the work looks very accomplished and (at first) very traditional.
The
strong graphic quality of formline drawing translates easily into many
media, from the carved wood rattles of John Marston and the silver jewelry
of Jay Simeon and Dan Wallace to the carved and painted boxes by Moy Sutherland.
Formline
drawing also translates easily to other graphic, non-Native media. We've
seen so many beautifully designed and brilliantly colored serigraphs (silk-screen
prints) from Native American artists that it, too, almost seems a traditional
medium. Well-known local artists Marvin Oliver and Preston Singletary,
among others, have used glass to extend the range of formline media.
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