Rainbow Rain #2

Edna Davis Jackson

Rainbow Rain #2, Sculpture by Edna Davis Jackson
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Savvy Price $2,800.00
Gallery Price $3,500.00
Title
Rainbow Rain #2
Artist
Edna Davis Jackson
Medium
Cast paper, hand-made paper attached to black felt in Plexiglas box
Image size
32 1/2" height X 13" width
Frame
Plexiglas shadow box
Frame size
35 1/2" height X 16 1/2" width
Signed
"E. Jackson 1983" at viewer's lower right on yellow paper
Date of creation
Circa 1990
Condition
Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
Provenance
LF
About The Rainbow Rain #2
About Edna Davis Jackson

(Born 1950) Originally a resident of the isolated Alaskan Native village of Petersburg where she grew up, Edna Jackson is a papermaking artist whose sensitivity to local materials is immediately evident in her work. She gathers grasses, bark and plants to cook into pulp for her handmade papers. Abstracted Tlingit motifs serve as the "decorative" elements, as do more personal images of her husband and child with the cast paper elements. 

Her work was exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum during April 13 - May 28, 1989. The prior year she received a solo exhibition at the Southern Plains Indian Museum and Crafts Center in Anadarko, Oklahoma. In 1984 her work was featured at the Sacred Circle Gallery in Seattle.  

Jackson earned her BFA at Oregon State University (1980) and her MFA at the University of Washington (1983). She has taught papermaking both to high school and college students at the University of Alaska.

 Her native name is "Ka-Swoot".

Cultures

American Indian, Women Artists

Medium

Sculpture

Subject

Contemporary

Keywords

Edna Davis Jackson, Edna Jackson