Nathan Jackson (artist)
Nathan Jackson (born August 29, 1938[1]) is an Alaska native artist. He is among the most important living Tlingit artists[2] and the most important Alaskan artists.[3] He is best known for his totem poles, but works in a variety of media.
Jackson belongs to the Sockeye clan on the Raven side of the Chilkoot Tlingit.[1] As a young adult, he served in the military in Germany, and then became involved in commercial fishing.[1] While ill with pneumonia and unable to fish, he began to carve miniature totem poles.[1] His interest in art was piqued, and he enrolled in the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[1] Since then, Jackson's work has included large totem poles, canoes, carved doors, wood panel clan crests, masks, and jewelry.[1] Jackson has worked to pass on traditional Tlingit carving skills to younger artists, and has offered many demonstrations and workshops in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.[1]
Jackson has created more than 50 totem poles,[4] some of which are on display in the National Museum of the American Indian,[5] the Field Museum in Chicago,[6] Harvard University's Peabody Museum,[7] and other museums in the United States, Europe, and Japan.[1] Other totem poles stand outside Juneau-Douglas High School,[8] Juneau's Centennial Hall,[8][9] in Juneau's Sealaska Building,[8] in Totem Bight State Historical Park,[10] at the Alaska Native Heritage Center,[3] at Saxman Totem Park,[11] and at the Totem Heritage Center in Ketchikan.[9] He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship (1995),[1] a Rasmuson Foundation Distinguished Artist Award (2009),[12][13] and an honorary doctorate in humanities from the University of Alaska Southeast.[1]
Jackson currently resides in Ketchikan, Alaska.[14] His wife and son are also artists.[6]
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