Announcement from Tacoma Arts Listserv:
THE BRIDLE SHOW by Lisa Kinoshita
What: Artist Talk
Where: Fulcrum Gallery, 1308 South, MLK Street Tacoma, WA 98405
When: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 5 pmCost: Free
Where: Fulcrum Gallery, 1308 South, MLK Street Tacoma, WA 98405
When: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 5 pmCost: Free
Lisa Kinoshita's Bridle Show
explores the vanishing art of horsehair hitching, a traditional Western
art whose most skilled practitioners are amongst the inmates at Montana
State Prison (MSP). Kinoshita traveled to the prison to interview some
of the inmates who are making horsehair art, and she took up the
parallel art of leather braiding and knotting, a time-honored practice
of vaqueros and cowboys, to collaborate on a single horse's bridle which
demonstrates the beauty of a functional art form revered in centuries
past.
Since the 1800s, prisoners at MSP have kept this incredibly intricate and increasingly rare art alive inside prison walls, passing on their knowledge from hand to hand (mostly) under supervised conditions. Hitching exists at other prisons, in Washington (Walla Walla), Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona, but none surpasses the quality of work coming out of Deer Lodge, MT. Prisoners are allowed to sell their finished pieces, such as horsehair bridles, for up to thousands of dollars in the prison gift shop. In the process, they are keeping alive a skill that few modern artisans have the time or patience to master.
Since the 1800s, prisoners at MSP have kept this incredibly intricate and increasingly rare art alive inside prison walls, passing on their knowledge from hand to hand (mostly) under supervised conditions. Hitching exists at other prisons, in Washington (Walla Walla), Wyoming, Colorado, and Arizona, but none surpasses the quality of work coming out of Deer Lodge, MT. Prisoners are allowed to sell their finished pieces, such as horsehair bridles, for up to thousands of dollars in the prison gift shop. In the process, they are keeping alive a skill that few modern artisans have the time or patience to master.
This project was funded in part by the Tacoma Artists Initiative Program.
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