Ronald Senungetuk
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Ronald Senungetuk is an Inupiat artist
originally from Wales, Alaska
who works primarily in wood and metal. He is a sculptor
and silversmith
and is known for his abstractions of animal figures. He trained at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology
and in Oslo, Norway, on a Fulbright Fellowship at Statens Håndværks og Kunstindustriskole. He and his wife, Turid, an accomplished silversmith, live in Homer
.
Senungetuk started the University of Alaska Fairbanks
' metalsmithing program and was director of its Native Art Center. He received the Rasmuson Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Artist Award, and has received many other awards and recognitions for his work.
References
See also: *Alaskakool interview
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
originally from Wales, Alaska
Wales, Alaska
Wales is a town in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 152. It is the westernmost town on the American mainland.-Geography:...
who works primarily in wood and metal. He is a sculptor
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
and silversmith
Silversmith
A silversmith is a craftsperson who makes objects from silver or gold. The terms 'silversmith' and 'goldsmith' are not synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are or were largely the same but the end product varies greatly as does the scale of objects created.Silversmithing is the...
and is known for his abstractions of animal figures. He trained at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located within the town of Henrietta in metropolitan Rochester, New York, United States...
and in Oslo, Norway, on a Fulbright Fellowship at Statens Håndværks og Kunstindustriskole. He and his wife, Turid, an accomplished silversmith, live in Homer
Homer, Alaska
Homer is a city located in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population was 5,364. One of Homer's nicknames is "the cosmic hamlet by the sea"; another is "the end of the road"...
.
Senungetuk started the University of Alaska Fairbanks
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks, located in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska System, and is abbreviated as Alaska or UAF....
' metalsmithing program and was director of its Native Art Center. He received the Rasmuson Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Artist Award, and has received many other awards and recognitions for his work.
Awards and Recognitions
- 2008 Denali National Park Artist-in-Residence
References
See also: *Alaskakool interview