2011 - YEAR IN REVIEW

The Making of a Photograph

Native News Network Staff in Native Briefs. Discussion »

Historically American Indians have been very talented artists in various art forms.

Jason Quigno, a tribal citizen of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, is one talented contemporary American Indian artist. A sculptor since his teens, Quigno is an award winning artist who was photographed here as he prepared for his entry in annual ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

With a deadline looming and fine Indiana limestone everywhere, Quigno was busy carving with a power chisel as he worked on The 7 Chief clans of the Anishinabe in September in this photograph. He works out of a closed down factory, turned artist studio building in southwest Grand Rapids.

The intensity on his face shows how his concentration takes a piece of stone and turns it into a fine piece of art.

Here is a link to the original story:
American Indian Sculptor Jason Quigno's "7 Chief clans of the Anishinabe"
and this is the slideshow of photos from those final days of his creative process:
American Indian Sculptor Jason Quigno: I Tell My Stories through Stones

posted December 29, 2011 8:30 pm est