{"id":4406,"date":"2014-08-02T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T18:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2014-08-15T22:29:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T18:29:45","slug":"shgen-george-tlingit-octopus-bags-other-weavings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/shgen-george-tlingit-octopus-bags-other-weavings\/","title":{"rendered":"Shgen George: Tlingit Octopus Bags & Other Weavings"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Clarissa<\/a>

Flanked by two Ravenstail robes woven by Shgen, Clarissa poses with Shgen George (center) and her daughter Gabby Kay at her first show opening during 1st Friday Gallery Walk, August 1st, 2014 at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center (JACC), Juneau, Alaska<\/p><\/div>\n

Shgen George has been an elementary school teacher for at least 10 years; she carves out time from her other roles as mother, wife, mentor, teacher, and daughter to do her art – it isn’t easy!\u00a0 Like where do you find the time to do your art when there’s always student’s class assignments to check during the weekend!? \u00a0 She had an impressive showing of buttonrobes, Ravenstail robes, beaded, appliqued and woven Chilkat and Ravenstail octopus bags!\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Even I have never had a one-man show and I’ve been at this for nearly 40 years! — Click here<\/a> for more information on Shgen and her show at the JACC during the month of August.<\/p>\n

Shgen says that I am her mentor.\u00a0 (Really?\u00a0 Me?)\u00a0 I am not only her teacher of Chilkat, I am her mentor.\u00a0 I have never really considered myself a “mentor” – like what does that mean?\u00a0 Someone who knows a little more about life’s certain topics that shares it on a consistent basis with specific person(s).\u00a0 She says that I have inspired her tremendously and wants to do what I have done in my life.\u00a0\u00a0 I have never had anyone else tell me this; I wonder if there are others who feel the same way?\u00a0 I had not ever considered myself as someone “to follow in their footsteps…” so to speak.\u00a0 I am 58 years old this year; I better get on the ball and take my position seriously.\u00a0 So I have given her some pointers on how to go about doing this: what to watch out for, the dedication, determination and drive of doing art to keep yourself sane while growing up and old all the while becoming more of a human being, and all the while balancing your life with your husband, your kids, your community, your health,…and of course, your other job!<\/p>\n

A few years ago, when I saw Shgen’s astounding beadworked octopus bags, I told her that I had woven a couple of octopus bags, one Ravenstail, the other Chilkat.\u00a0 I encouraged her to weave octopus bags of all kinds, and why not!?\u00a0 Nobody’s doing it and it’s gotta be done and I’m too busy doing other weavings and works so it might as well be her!\u00a0 By golly, she’s done it!<\/p>\n

Shgen too is part of Jennie Thlunaut’s legacy of a Chilkat weaver.\u00a0 I know Jennie would be proud of Shgen, her character, her talent and her works.<\/p>\n

Congratulations Shgen!!!\u00a0 And Gunulcheesh to her husband, daughter, mother, father and other community members who have supported Shgen in her achievements!!!<\/p>\n

Can we have an Amen!?\u00a0 Can we have a HOO-HAA!?<\/p>\n

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Shgen George has been an elementary school teacher for at least 10 years; she carves out time from her other roles as mother, wife, mentor, teacher, and daughter to do her art – it isn’t easy!\u00a0 Like where do you find the time to do your art when there’s always student’s class assignments to check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,50],"tags":[90,62,43,7,52,36,100,98,8,123,245],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honoring-others","category-tlingit-cultural-events","tag-alaska-native-art","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-button-blanket-robes","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-jennie-thlunaut","tag-native-american-art","tag-northwest-coast-tlingit-native-art","tag-ravenstail","tag-ravenstail-weaving","tag-shgen-george"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","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=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}