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ARTIST STATEMENT
Charlie
Miller was born in
Hanna, Wyoming; his mother was Lummi, his father German and Cherokee.
He was a Stonemason by trade and in the late sixties it was this
profession that inspired him to sculpture in stone. Charlie’s Spanish
style sculptures were exhibited from Florida and Georgia to Louisiana
and Mississippi. However, in 1985 he made his way back home to the
Lummi Nation, where he had to learn all over again. He began by carving
animal imagery before he attempted to carve in wood, which became
second natured as soon as his knife became embedded in the red cedar.
Charlie has received international acclaim and recognition in Japan,
where his bone, stone and woodcarvings are widely sought, and he
published a children’s book in Japanese. |
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