Ed Gray / Jikiwe

 

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Sincerity, humility, honesty and respect for all people and for the universe are the guiding directors which I gather to forge my work with the old ones...melding my hands with their ancient hands.

Creating art with a celebration and an embrace of cultural differences - past and present - I enthusiastically weave all into a moving vortex, never to stop creating impressions and visions.


 

RESUME

HERITAGE

Born August 1939 in Traverse City, MI
Great Lake Basin Ojibway, Norwegian, Swedish and English heritage

 

EXPERIENCE

Full-time self-taught studio artist since 1962
Traverse City, MI area from 1962-1984
Saugatuck/Fennville, MI area from 1985 to present

 

GALLERY REPRESENTATION (partial listing)

Synchronicity Gallery, Glen Arbor, MI
Indian Hills Gallery, Petoskey, MI
American Indian Community House Gallery, New York City, NY
Miskwabik-Ed Gray Studio, Fennville, MI
Northwind Books, Eagle Harbor, MI

 

EXHIBITIONS

American Indian Community House Museum/Gallery, New York City, "Native Survival: Response to HIV/AIDS," group show, October 6 - December 9, 1995. Group show traveled to: Two Rivers Gallery, March 9 - April 19, 1996, Minneapolis, MN; Foreman Gallery-Hartwick College, October 7 - November 2, 1996, Oneonta, NY; Heard Museum, December 1 - 15, 1996, Phoenix, AZ
Holland Arts Center, Holland, MI, "Celebration '96," June 1996
Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo, MI, "Common Ground," four-person show, September 1996
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI, "All Michigan All Media," April 4 - June 15, 1997
First United Methodist Church of Christ, Grand Rapids, MI, "Celebration - A Festival of Religious Arts," February, 1998; Honorable Mention award
University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI, "Gift of Art," Spring 1998
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, "1998 Small Format Area Show," February 1998

 

CORPORATE COMMISSIONS

Phelps Dodge, Dow Chemical, E.F. Hutton, Handy and Harmon, Kerr Corporation, Joseph Lamb Company

 

PERMANENT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Children's Museum of Detroit, Brooklyn Museum of Fine Arts, American Indian Community House Museum, New York City

 

WORKSHOPS

John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, 1985-1992
Allison's Wells School of Arts and Crafts, Canton, MS, October 1993
OX-BOW (Summer School for the Chicago Institute of Art), Saugatuck, MI, 1994-1998
Miskwabik / Ed Gray Studio, Fennville, MI

 

PUBLICATIONS

Sculpture Magazine's MAQUETTE (1993 Resource Directory) for the International Sculpture Center, "Patinas: Chemical Reactions with Copper"
FIBERARTS October/November 1994, "The Working of Metals and Fibers"
Directory of Michigan Artists, 1997 Edition, by Marilyn Fosburg
MICHIGAN - Celebrate the State, 1998, by Marilyn Targ Brill