Teri Rofkar is a wonderful contemporary artist from Sitka, Alaska renown for her work with fabrics. Teri Rofkar was born in the year 1956. The artist produces hand woven garments and baskets of traditional and historical significance. To weave one of these ornamental masterpiece garments it sometimes takes up to 2,000 hours of time (and more importantly patience!)
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Teri Rofkar is one of few people to receive an endowment from the National Arts Foundation in order to improve her basket weaving in the Tinglet traditional style. The recipients of this award are known as living national treasures! What a great idea! I think many of the Northwest Coast artists deserve more exposure. Rofkar received this extraordinary grant in 2009.
Calls herself a “basket case” because she is weaving or gathering materials all of the time!
In this clip she talks about learning to weave from grandmother and her parents. She talks about her working environment in her art:
In this clip we view some works from Rofkar and Shelly Laws. Both are nationally collected artists that work in the traditional Tlingit ways of weaving and basketry.
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