I have added a few links of interest, the first being to Bird TLC , an Anchorage organization which rescues and treats injured birds with the hope of eventually being able to return them to nature. This group performs awesome feats with limited resources. I heartily encourage all to visit their site, see what they do and donate whatever you can afford.
A very dedicated is Dave Dorsey. He gives many hours to the organization and personally houses the beautiful Snowy Owl, Ghost and a falcon on his living room table. He has a scar on his cheek to attest to a reluctant eage he helped release recently.I've included a link to Dave's personal blog: great photos and news around Anchorage.
Another link is to my daughter, Britt Coon's photo gallery. She has a sensitive eye in viewing nature and is also a dedicated volunteer to causes which address the balance of nature with regards to humans and animals living on this planet together. The two organizations she is most devoted to are Bird TLC and the Alaska Zoo.
John Gomes is a friend of Britt's and her photography teacher. He is a professional photographer of Alaskan wildlife and landscape and the official photographer for the Alaska Zoo.
About Me
- Jan Steinbright
- Sitka, Alaska, United States
- I lived in beautiful Alaska for 30 years, raised my family there and had a dream job working for a grassroots Native organization which assisted Native aritsts to fulfill their dreams. Now I live in beautiful Mexico and am trying to do my own artwork full time, am enjoying the weather, the people and the culture.
Greetings from the temperate rain forest of Sitka Sound. We live at the edge of the Pacific Ocean and on the edge of an island named Baranof. Our view to the west is a stunning volcano which is snow-capped in the winter named Mt. Edgecumbe.
One cannot help but be influenced by the landscape here, the rugged mountains, the forests and the surging sea. My artwork is immersed in this imagery from the kelp baskets, pendants and pins I make from locally-gathered macrosystis and bull kelp to raku sculpture and paintings of marine mammals.
Welcome to Lake Chapala, Mexico.
This where I now live. We are a community on the north side of Mexico's largest lake at 5000 ft. above sea level. The weather runs about 70 degrees year round except for the months of May and June which are hot. Our rainy season starts then which I, as a Sitkan, relish. (never thought I'd say that after living theTongass National Rain Forest for 12 years.) Everything grows here--just take a cutting, stick it into the ground and in a month, you have a new plant! The local people are friendly, the arts community is thriving; I never run out of image ideas for my own art.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Latest Pieces
Here are some of my pieces from Alaska pieces which sold at a local Artisans Market. The Devil's Club rattle is to honor the plant that helped me through chemotherapy. It has a Devil's Club wood handle and a gourd head painted with the Devil's Club plant. The other rattle is all bull kelp and has a great sound. The basket is macrosystis kelp with a scallop shell.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The first piece is entitled "Save Some Herring For me" and is raku. It's my protest against the commercial sac roe herring fishery here each spring which I feel is depleting the resource. The piece on the right is a macrosystis kelp basket.
These photos are of a ceramic sculpture of a basketmaker holding a small lidded basket.Monday, November 24, 2008
Raven House Mouse - by Jan Steinbright
This is a childrens book about Tlingit culture. I wrote it for Austin Hammond, a great Tlingit leader who operated a culture camp in Haines on the Chilkoot River for youth so they could learn about Tlingit ways of doing things and values. The mouse in the book actually lived behind the dryer at the clan house, Raven House. I took the story from there. The book is beautifully illustrated by Robert Davis, a very fine Tlingit artist. Using Northwest Coast formline drawings, he brought the story to life as we follow this little rodent fellow from bring an orphan to finding a new culture and home with the Tlingit people of Haines. The book retails for $19.95 and is available from winternightspublishing.com. Britt Coon is the new manager and she will give wholesale quotes on the book also.
The first illustration shows the little mouse being afraid of the carved raven on the face of the clan house when he first sees him. The second one shows a great procession at the annual gathering of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian nations in Juneau every two years entitled "Celebration". 
This third drawing shows the mouse being adopted into the clan. Note the mouse reflections in the eyes.
All illustrations shown here are copyrighted by the artist, Robert Davis, and may not be reproduced without permission from him
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