General Meeting

Speaker

Jill HH Lipka

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Jill HH Lipka is a full-time studio artist based in Lodi, California.  She is primarily a sculptor working in wood, copper, plaster, and her own hand-made modeling compounds.  Her abstract contemporary work largely draws upon nature for inspiration but also includes more realistic figurative pieces.

 

Jill's artistic path and world view have been influenced by her childhood in California and also by the eighteen years she spent living on the Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island in Alaska.

 

She attributes the largest impact of her life and art to the time she spent working at the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository in Kodiak.  From remote field archaeology and exhibit design and fabrication to teaching nearly lost indigenous cultural traditions to children in the villages, Jill's world was full of interesting and exciting ideas and adventures.  Over time, Jill discovered herself in the old traditions of a culture that had not been her own, in the words of Alaska Native Elders, and in the wild landscapes where humans are not at the top of the food chain.  Across these experiences she learned to value and treasure lifeways so different from what she had previously known.