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Ronald Senungetuk BIOGRAPHY
1933 Wales, Alaska - 2020 Homer, Alaska. Known for: Native Inuit figure animal imagery.
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Hailed as one of the finest Alaska artists of his generation, Ron Senungetuk, 86, died last week on Jan. 21 at his Homer home with family present. His wife, Turid Senungetuk, said he died of... Read full biography
Hailed as one of the finest Alaska artists of his generation, Ron Senungetuk, 86, died last week on Jan. 21 at his Homer home with family present. His wife, Turid Senungetuk, said he died of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disorder. Artists, professors and leaders of art... Read full biography
Hailed as one of the finest Alaska artists of his generation, Ron Senungetuk, 86, died last week on Jan. 21 at his Homer home with family present. His wife, Turid Senungetuk, said he died of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disorder. Artists, professors and leaders of art organizations praised Senungetuk not only for his work in wood and metal, but for his advocacy of treating indigenous art as fine art. “Ron shaped the way we support and celebrate Alaska’s culture in a... Read full biography
Hailed as one of the finest Alaska artists of his generation, Ron Senungetuk, 86, died last week on Jan. 21 at his Homer home with family present. His wife, Turid Senungetuk, said he died of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disorder. Artists, professors and leaders of art organizations praised Senungetuk not only for his work in wood and metal, but for his advocacy of treating indigenous art as fine art. “Ron shaped the way we support and celebrate Alaska’s culture in a complex, nuanced way that has been game changing,” wrote Bunnell Street Arts Center Artistic Director Asia Freeman in an email. Da-ka-xeen Mehner, associate professor of Native art and the current director of the Native Art Center that Senungetuk founded... Read full biography
Hailed as one of the finest Alaska artists of his generation, Ron Senungetuk, 86, died last week on Jan. 21 at his Homer home with family present. His wife, Turid Senungetuk, said he died of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disorder. Artists, professors and leaders of art organizations praised Senungetuk not only for his work in wood and metal, but for his advocacy of treating indigenous art as fine art. “Ron shaped the way we support and celebrate Alaska’s culture in a complex, nuanced way that has been game changing,” wrote Bunnell Street Arts Center Artistic Director Asia Freeman in an email. Da-ka-xeen Mehner, associate professor of Native art and the current director of the Native Art Center that Senungetuk founded at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, called him “the grandfather of contemporary Native art in Alaska.”. In a video... Read full biography
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Hailed as one of the finest Alaska artists of his generation, Ron Senungetuk, 86, died last week on Jan. 21 at his Homer home with family present.
His wife, Turid Senungetuk, said he died of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disorder.
Artists, professors and leaders of art organizations praised Senungetuk not only for his work in wood and metal, but for his advocacy of treating indigenous art as fine art.
“Ron shaped the way we support and celebrate Alaska’s culture in a complex, nuanced way that has been game changing,” wrote Bunnell Street Arts Center Artistic Director Asia Freeman in an email.
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