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Transforming scrap silver into earrings

Sep 22, 2024 | Jessie Morgan (Skweit) Learns Silverworking from Jenny Lyn Smith

Kneeling silver Crowning

Honoring Tradition

Sep 20, 2024 | Jessie Morgan (Skweit) Learns Silverworking from Jenny Lyn Smith, Uncategorized

Skweit Jessie Morgan is an apprentice with master artist Jenny Lyn Smith in Haines, Alaska. Skweit’s designs reflect her ancestral connection to the land through art representative of Lingit peoples for tens of thousands of years. Formline depicts the environment with...

We are imitating our ancestors

Sep 16, 2024 | Jessie Morgan (Skweit) Learns Silverworking from Jenny Lyn Smith

Drifting ashore

Sep 7, 2024 | Jessie Morgan (Skweit) Learns Silverworking from Jenny Lyn Smith

Enjoy three videos of some of the process in working with metal. Melting scrap silverDrawing on iPadPolishing...

Continuity

Sep 5, 2024 | Jessie Morgan (Skweit) Learns Silverworking from Jenny Lyn Smith

In October 2023 the opportunity “Business Basics for Artists” workshop via Spruce Root and Chilkoot Indian Association came up. After the panel discussion with local artists, I was inspired to learn formline and silver carving. I had long been seeking my place on...
Taking the Leap

Taking the Leap

Apr 30, 2024 | Jessie Morgan (Skweit) Learns Silverworking from Jenny Lyn Smith

I am honored to apprentice with master artist Jenny Lyn Smith in silver carving. Jenny Lyn Smith learned Northwest Coast art by Leo Jacobs, Sr., John Hagen, Ed Kasko, Johnnie Avotock, and Nathan Jackson at Alaska Indian Arts. Northwest Coast art has created an...

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