He says that after he moved to Seattle, he started creating his own designs to cure his homesickness for Alaska.
G̱at X̱wéech Nick Alan Foote, whose art was chosen to represent Sealaska Heritage Institute ’s Celebration 2024 , wears a sweater with his piece “Sacred Embrace” at Village Street in Juneau on June 6, 2024.
My name is Nick Foote, Nick Alan Foote. My Lingít name is G̱at X̱wéech. I’m kind of from all over Southeast Alaska. I’ve lived in Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka and Klawock in the summer. And I currently live in Seattle, but I’m up here for Celebration this year. My parents always kept a lot of Alaska Native artwork around the house. My Aunt Kathy is an artist, and she would give us a lot of artwork. It was always on our walls. So I would just try to mimic and trace the shapes. And just, that was definitely, you know, the starter, the kicking off point into formline.
I think I really started to take formline design seriously as like a career when I moved to Seattle because I kind of got homesick a little bit for, you know, Alaska. And so I started drawing a lot, creating my own designs to kind of cure my homesickness.
G̱at X̱wéech Nick Alan Foote Sealaska Heritage Institute Sheet’Ka Ḵwáan Sitka Native Education Program
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