MEZTLI PROJECTS
Meztli Projects supports the creative development of Native and Indigenous artists.
We were founded with the intent to address the severe lack of artistic opportunities for Native and Indigenous Artists as-well-as systems-impacted youth living and creating in Los Angeles County (Tovaangar). This work takes shape in several forms such as for-hire opportunities, advocating for truly equitable resources such as but not limited to funding and culturally authentic (not just relevant) programming, and training future and emerging cultural workers.
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Ishi Glinsky,
Tohono O'odham
the1451@gmail.com
@1451
Ishi Glinsky (b. 1982, Tohono O'odham; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) works in a variety of media, including painting, drawing and sculpture. Ishi Glinsky investigates the traditional practices of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation, as well as other North American First Nations to create contemporary homages to sacred events and customs. These investigations often consist of a close study of the history and significance of a craft tradition, the committed apprenticeship of its technique, and its assimilation or transformation within Glinsky’s artistic practice. Each immersive installation, sculpture or painting is a fusion of intertribal celebration and resourcefulness, permanence, or evolution, all of which is intimately reflected in the carefully crafted material nature and composition of a given work. Glinsky’s production consists of creating disproportionate shifts in scale to both amplify Indigenous practices and stories, while memorializing them in the form of monuments to survival.
Working in sculpture, painting, and installation, Ishi Glinsky looks closely at Indigenous craft traditions to create new works rooted in cultural knowledge and intertribal trade. Using traditional weaving techniques as a guide, Glinsky changes the size, shape, and material to create monuments that honor Indigenous strength and cultural survival.
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For Over Walls, Glinsky references O'odham weaving, burden baskets, the folklore of these cultural objects and the ceremonial ritual of smoke cleansing. Burden baskets were traditionally used to gather and carry materials such as harvested plants, firewood or even pots and vessels for sale and trade. Ascending like smoke, through arranged aluminum poles (which convey the traditional silhouette of a burden basket but also allude to kindling), is woven and chain linked wire. The over 3000-feet of varying woven wire is a nod to O’odham wire baskets. Interlaced through this network of wire are oversized feathers which act to symbolically guide this mass like healing smoke.
Similar Artists:
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Marie Watt
Jeffery Gibson
More Work:
https://www.ishiglinsky.com/