{"id":3868,"date":"2013-11-12T04:32:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T00:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2014-01-18T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T16:17:00","slug":"in-memory-of-walter-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/in-memory-of-walter-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Walter Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Father Cyril Bulashevich in the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Juneau, Alaska” Chilkat woven wall pouch –\u00a0 1990 –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16″w x 24″h – Private Collection, Denver, CO<\/p><\/div>\n

Even though the above Chilkat weaving is in honor of the priest I grew up with, Father Cyril Bulashevich, I use this image here in honor of Walter Porter from Yakutat, Alaska.\u00a0 In his own way, because he was what I would regard as a spiritual man, Walter Porter was “priestly.”\u00a0 It’s really the only way I have known him.\u00a0 (The first time I met his wife, MaryAnn Porter, was at the Chilkat weaving class taught by Jennie Thlunaut in 1985 – MaryAnn and I were fellow students.)\u00a0 Hearing of Walter’s passing on November 6th was shocking.\u00a0 Fellow artist, Preston Singletary texted me; I spent the entire week passing tears not able to do much else really. \u00a0 I know the news hit Preston even harder as both Walter and he were planning on working together again. \u00a0 The way I see Walter, the entire State of Alaska received a big blow, a big loss to our spiritual\/emotional way of being.<\/p>\n

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Walter Porter explains a design concept at the 2nd Northwest Coast Artists’ Gathering 2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Juneau, Alaska<\/p><\/div>\n

Walter was our guest speaker at the 2nd Biennial Northwest Coast Artists’ Gathering in 2008.\u00a0 His lecture was recorded and is on his website.\u00a0 Walter was an interpreter, a guide to assist us into thinking differently about the way we saw our world.<\/p>\n

Condolences to our MaryAnn, their children and family.\u00a0 A big hole has been left – We will miss him for the rest of our lives!<\/p>\n

To get a glimpse of Walter and his work, please visit Walter’s website at:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.tlinkimo.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Even though the above Chilkat weaving is in honor of the priest I grew up with, Father Cyril Bulashevich, I use this image here in honor of Walter Porter from Yakutat, Alaska.\u00a0 In his own way, because he was what I would regard as a spiritual man, Walter Porter was “priestly.”\u00a0 It’s really the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,19],"tags":[90,309,62,98,16,148],"class_list":["post-3868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-two-cents-and-then-some","category-honoring-others","tag-alaska-native-art","tag-alaska-native-storytellers","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-northwest-coast-tlingit-native-art","tag-preston-singletary","tag-yakutat-alaska"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}