{"id":5005,"date":"2015-04-23T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2015-04-25T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T01:40:19","slug":"clarissa-rizal-announces-her-new-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/clarissa-rizal-announces-her-new-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarissa Rizal Announces Her New Website!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4183\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedGraduationCap2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedGraduationCap2.jpg\" alt=\"Northwest Coast Tlingit graduation cap designed by Clarissa Rizal painted and modeled by Ursala Hudson --  2014\" width=\"460\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedGraduationCap2.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PaintedGraduationCap2-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northwest Coast Tlingit graduation cap designed by Clarissa Rizal painted and modeled by Ursala Hudson at her BA graduation &#8212; 2014<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have a new website with a few new tweaks to my blog, just launched last week on April 13th;<em><strong> I HAVE GRADUATED<\/strong> <\/em>to a simpler, cleaner, and easy-to-navigate format to update:\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to celebrate!\u00a0 (Most artists that I know would rather spend their time creating instead of working on the computer, so the easier and faster computer time, the better for us all&#8230;!)<\/p>\n<p>This is my fourth website since 1998; the first was created by my friend Cecil Touchon (www.ceciltouchon.com) nearly 20 years ago when there were not very many Native American artists&#8217; websites.<\/p>\n<p>I have been blogging since July 2010, nearly 5 years!\u00a0 Unlike the past blog entries randomly posted when I could fit in the work, I will post new blog entries 3\/x weekly with this schedule:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on Mondays and Thursdays and Saturdays by 12 midnight (Alaska, Pacific or Mountain time &#8212; all depends on where my business travel takes me!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blog posts will include the usual latest projects, art business travel, tools of the trade, people, classes, health topics, etc., though to continue helping out my fellow weavers in a more efficient manner, I have added a new section to my categories (column on the right) called &#8220;Tricks-of-the-Trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All photographs on my website and blog were shot by myself unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For over 20 years, most of the photographs of my button robes and my chilkat weavings were taken by professional photographer Jeff Laydon at www.pagosaphotography.com.<\/li>\n<li>I make an effort to give credit to any other\u00a0 photographers.<\/li>\n<li>Thank you to my ceremonial robe models the late Russ Eagle and my grand-daughter Amelie Haas.<\/li>\n<li>My friend Russ had been modeling for me for nearly 15 years until his passing in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Five-year-old Amelie had her debut this past March modelling my &#8220;Chilkat Child&#8221; 5-piece weaving ensemble.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have begun formatting my photographs larger; people want to SEE!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I also will aim towards shooting more interesting shots, maybe at different angles<\/li>\n<li>maybe I&#8217;ll even tweak them too, because I CAN!<\/li>\n<li>Click photos on my website to enlarge; the blog photos are what they are<\/li>\n<li>Ursala says I ought to buy myself a SLR camera to produce better photos, though at this time I cannot afford spending $500-$1000.<\/li>\n<li>Blogs and websites are much more interesting with better photography and golly, shooting from my old iPhone I guess just doesn&#8217;t tickle anybody&#8217;s fancy does it!<\/li>\n<li>Hold on, dear readers, the money for a real camera will come some day!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As time permits, I will be adding one more topic to my website:\u00a0 a &#8220;Tributes&#8221; page to honor\u00a0 mainly Tlingit elders who have helped me on my path as a full-time Tlingit artist for nearly 40 years.\u00a0 My &#8220;Tributes&#8221; page will include those of have passed including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grandparents, Juan and Mary Sarabia<\/li>\n<li>parents William and Irene Lampe<\/li>\n<li>very first mentor\/teacher Tlingit chief from Yakutat, Harry K. Bremner, Sr. who gave me my very first sewing lessons along with Tlingit song and dance instruction, and<\/li>\n<li>mentor\/teacher of Chilkat weaving, Jennie Thlunaut<\/li>\n<li>my apprenticeship with Jennie Thlunaut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you to my daughter, Ursala Hudson for working hard last weekend to create and launch\u00a0 my website by my deadline!\u00a0 Check Ursala&#8217;s graphic design\/web design work on her website at:\u00a0 <a title=\"White Rabbit Studio\" href=\"www.whiterabbitstudio.us\" target=\"_blank\">www.whiterabbitstudio.us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new website with a few new tweaks to my blog, just launched last week on April 13th; I HAVE GRADUATED to a simpler, cleaner, and easy-to-navigate format to update:\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to celebrate!\u00a0 (Most artists that I know would rather spend their time creating instead of working on the computer, so the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[65,29,4,50,27,150],"tags":[90,62,43,9,135,7,52,146,63,36,100,147,205,38],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-two-cents-and-then-some","category-latest-art-projects","category-northwest-coast-art-shows-and-art-exhibits","category-tlingit-cultural-events","category-marketing","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-alaska-native-art","tag-alaskan-artists","tag-button-blanket-robes","tag-buttonrobes","tag-cecil-touchon","tag-chilkat","tag-chilkat-weaving","tag-harry-k-bremner","tag-irene-loling-sarabia-lampe","tag-jennie-thlunaut","tag-native-american-art","tag-sr","tag-ursala-hudson","tag-william-lampe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5104,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}