Lipstick Carver - 2020 Charity Box
Lipstick Carver - 2020 Charity Box
THIS BOX IS NOW SOLD. FINAL BID $1,000.00
4 1/4" x 3 1/2" x 3 1/2"
Red and yellow cedar, liquid lipstick.
"It is painted entirely using long wear liquid lipstick, and is called "Lipstick Carver". The box considers gender in Northwest Coast Art. For a long time, the long-held belief was that women didn't carve. Through research of the Tlingit language, I have found several examples of female carvers - a meteorite dagger and a carved bowl that are now held in museum collections. So yes, women can do our art, and do it well, and do it all while wearing lipstick, too."
-Alison Bremner
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Alison Bremner
CULTURAL GROUP:
Tlingit
BORN:
1989
BIRTHPLACE:
Yakutat, Alaska
Alison Bremner was born and raised in Southeast Alaska. Bremner is believed to be the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. She studied under David R. Boxley and David A. Boxley in Kingston, Washington. She is committed to the revitalization of the Tlingit language and creating works for traditional and ceremonial use. Her work is included in the permanent collections of, among others, the Burke Museum, Seattle; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Château Musée Boulogne-sur-Mer, France; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; and the British Museum in London. In 2019, her jewellery was featured in the publication Understanding Northwest Coast Indigenous Jewelry by author Alex Dawkins.