My Little People: Soft Sculpture by Jamie Okuma
$10.00
Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Wheelwright Museum, January 31 - April 18 2004.
Contains 9 full page color plates with commentary by the artist.
All items in the exhibition are included.
20 pages
9" x 9"
$10
BA600
Compiled and edited by Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle and Jonathan Batkin
Photographs by Addison Doty
Excerpts from the artist commentary:
"I'm not sure what made me want to make dolls, but I've always liked miniatures. My mom pulled out some of my first pieces of beadwork not long ago, and I found a whole bunch of miniature moccasins and leggings."
"I started beading when I was about five, after I went to my first powwow, which was at my grandmother's reservation in Fort Hall, Idaho. I wanted to dance so bad!"
"Ever since I started making my own outfits I've researched designs by looking at old photographs. To make the horse gear ("Plateau Family"), I looked at all different kinds of martingales, all different kinds of cruppers. The saddlebags are really Lakota style, but I looked at a lot of old photos of Plateau people, and they had saddlebags with geometric designs. The horse's chain is actually from an antique French beaded purse. The forelock ornament was made just like a real one."
"When I began this doll ("Sarah, Micmac Woman"), I wanted to do a traditional Micmac lady. But it didn't happen that way. She has this style of ribbonwork that the Micmac didn't do, so she kind of turned into a mixture of the tribes that did ribbonwork."
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