Chairs!!!

Cyborg 1

Oil on Wood Panel

8 x 10 inch. 2022

Another square piece. This is my drawing "Crepuscular", which I finished over the weekend. Colored pencil on 12x12 inch 140lb watercolor paper. I've been creating more artwork using the square sizes lately, and they are working well for me. I created this piece for my series of black cat artwork. 

SteelArt By N.E.Thompson

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Magical Spot on the River

Island in the mist

Experimenting with a random panel from my in-progress graphic novel!

Pacific Northwest artist

The fact that the class is being taught remotely, with students from across the state and the nation, actually contributes in a way. On a virtual map from native-land.ca, Bunn-Marcuse asks students to plot where they currently are, and the map converts it to Native terms—most of which are still recognizable to us. Today’s students are in land that first belonged to the following tribes: Seattle, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Puyallup, Tulalip, Yakima, Spokane, Nooksack, Stillaguamish, Butte, Okanagan, Massachusett, and Cherokee. This exercise lets the students think about how the class is inhabiting or occupying a wide swath of Indigenous land because they’re not at UW.

The class has a particular weight this quarter because of the passing of the legendary Bill Holm in December 2020. Holm, a leading scholar of Native art and art history, mentored Bunn-Marcuse, ’98, ’07, and was like a grandfather to her children. Even though Holm is no longer with us, students at the UW continue to learn through the people who learned from him, teaching the classes he helped shape. Holm taught a three-quarter sequence of Native art to UW students in the 1970s, inviting anyone in the community to sit in on the class. The auditors included Indigenous artists like Pacific Northwest artist Ron Hamilton and Joe David. People crowded in and sat in the aisles in Kane Hall.

That’s because Holm knew his stuff. As an outsider to Native arts and culture, he had immersed himself in the Burke Museum beginning as a teenager in the 1940s, learning from director Erna Gunther before traveling the region to meet Native artists and learn about their craft. “They were really interested in talking to him, because he was really interested in talking to them,” says Bunn-Marcuse. “His strength was that he was incredibly humble and generous.”Holm became an encyclopedia of archival history and a bridge between cultures, mastering the contents of museum collections and traveling the world to give what he had learned to the next generation. In 1965, he published the book “Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form,” which became a Rosetta Stone for generations of Native artists looking to converse with their ancestors. His personal collection of 30,000 images of Northwest art was the stuff of legend: Young artists and scholars reached out by letters, then emails, asking him for copies of images or for advice about technical instruction or cultural history.

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Love your Mabel and Dipper art! Just curious, do you plan to do more Gravity Falls art? Like Pacifica?

I will never abandon gravity falls don’t worry. It’s one of my favourite things

Lewis River Falls, Washington

Three Sisters

Oil in Wood Panel

11 x 14 inch. 2022

Punch Bowl Falls

Mossy River Embankment on the Olympic Peninsula

Toadstool

Mount Rainier National Park

A secret lake