Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Michell Stoney's Art

I want to talk more about Native Arts, they are seen on boots, flip flops, coffee cups, water container, bags, and shoes.  Alex's sister, Michelle Stoney, is one of the artist who has her art on shoes and flats.  I've been trying to get a hold of Michelle to order some flats for graduation in May of 2014.  I was invited to a wedding last summer and my friend wore Michelle's shoes to the wedding.
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!
There are more Native artists like Michelle taking their arts to a new level.  Her art can be seen at YVR at the Vancouver Airport.


http://www.yvr.ca/en/about/art-architecture/banner-contest.aspx




I love watching Native artists at work, in searching for Michell's art on the internet I found "Raven Steals the Light" soapstone carving by Michelle Stoney.  If you have 5 minutes, please watch this video. I think it's a good idea for all the students to watch this video.

K - grade 7 could use soap instead of soapstone, orange peeler instead of a carving knife. Students can carve out their choice of art using various template, such as frogs, ravens, beavers, bears.


 
 


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3 comments:

  1. Unknown28 September 2013 at 14:42

    I love the "Raven steals the Light" story. Definitely this would be cool to try something similar to Michelle's carving with a class, it would take a while, but they would be very proud of their art and keep it!

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  2. Unknown8 October 2013 at 19:34

    Morictown Elementary School celebrated Aboriginal Day and one of the workshops for the students was soap carving with simple and different native design templates. It didn't take them long to carve their design. Yes indeed they were very proud of their work.

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  3. Willow Brown4 December 2013 at 19:51

    How nice that you were able to find both the airport banner and this carving video - it won't be long until there will be enough information about Michelle Stony to do an inquiry platform on the sources about her! I enjoyed the artist's statement on the airport banner - what a neat combination of modern and traditional forms! And wasn't it neat to see the sculpture take shape from start to finish - not bad for a first try. She may have done other carving, just not with soapstone.

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