Tacoma Art Museum Docents Blog TAM Docents Blog: FW: Carving update

Here is the latest Carving update, but not the last!

I would also like to add that there are 2 female carvers working on the canoes which is obviously something new and non-traditional.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Rock Hushka
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:01 PM
To: All Employees; Visitor Services Group; Visitor Services Leads
Subject: Carving update

Good afternoon, this is a reminder that the carving project is moving forward. Yesterday afternoon Phil Red Eagle telephoned with great news. The canoe carvers have secured a location to complete their work at Tacoma’s Working Waterfront Museum on Dock Street (a few blocks north of the museum). This location will allow the public to watch their progress and learn more about the canoe tradition of the Salish. They anticipate a completion date in May. Afterwhich, they will test their new canoes on Puget Sound. James Porter and I will work to help move the logs with the carvers sometime in the next couple of weeks. This process will involve loading the segments of the log currently in our parking lot and moving them down to Dock Street. We’ll forward more detail when we’ve coordinated everyone’s schedule: the two museums, the carvers, and the moving specialists.

Additionally, the University of Washington–Tacoma has offered one of their buildings for Shaun and Greg Colfax to complete their work on the Welcome Figure. The building is the tan, unused warehouse is awaiting conversion into a lecture hall this winter. (It’s the building next to Grassis.) The date that they will commence carving will be determined by Shaun and Greg. More soon, I’m sure!

If you have any questions, please, don’t hesitate to ask. Thanks.

rock

Rock Hushka