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Artwork copyright Duane Pasco. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Artwork copyright Duane Pasco. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Untitled, 1983
Duane Pasco
American (born 1932)
Location: Salem Woods Elementary, Monroe
About the Artwork
The relief design of this carved wood panel by artist Duane Pasco features two figures. Their clothing and other elements are based on traditional Native American Northwest Coast cultures but Pasco is a non-Native artist. The figures are also framed by patterns based on traditional Native American Northwest Coast curved and ovoid designs.
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Monroe School District.
About the Artist
Artist Duane Pasco is a non-Native wood carver and sculptor. His artworks are very strongly influenced by the Indigenous artistic traditions of the Northwest Coast. He has made the study of these Northwest Coast Indigenous artistic traditions his life’s work. Many credit him as an outstanding craftsperson and a generous teacher, who nurtured emerging Native carvers. Others are critical that he benefitted financially from opportunities that could have gone to Native artists, using traditions that are not his own.Born in Seattle, Pasco's family moved to Alaska early in his childhood. In the early 1970s, he served as an art instructor in Northern British Columbia, Canada, before returning to the Seattle area. Pasco is based in Poulsbo, on the Kitsap Peninsula, southern Puget Sound, Western Washington.
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