{"id":6193,"date":"2010-10-23T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2018-09-23T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T19:51:21","slug":"cultural-naratives-told-with-a-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/cultural-naratives-told-with-a-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural narratives&#8230; told with a pencil!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charles_Learjaw_Gerald_Kuehl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6194\" title=\"Charles_Learjaw_Gerald_Kuehl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charles_Learjaw_Gerald_Kuehl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"573\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Luke_Moose_Gerald_Kuehl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6197\" title=\"Luke_Moose_Gerald_Kuehl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Luke_Moose_Gerald_Kuehl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"529\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Luke_Moose_detail_Gerald_Kuehl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6198\" title=\"Luke_Moose_detail_Gerald_Kuehl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Luke_Moose_detail_Gerald_Kuehl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve long held that <em>\u201cwe live in stories,\u201d<\/em> (a notion I first heard expressed in those four eloquent words by colleague Bruce Brown of Brighton, UK, at a Vancouver GDC conference I was participating in a decade ago). This leitmotif was driven home once again for me yesterday morning while attending a keynote presentation by Gerald Kuehl to hundreds of Manitoba art teachers at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>Gerald enraptured those present with passionate, poignant story-telling of his ventures into Manitoba\u2019s and Nunavut\u2019s far-flung communities of First Nation peoples\u2026 where he has devoted the past decade-and-a-half to the exquisite portrayal (by means of graphite on paper) of elders\u2014the spontaneous standing ovation at the end of his presentation could hardly do justice to the devoted narrative loosed by his illustrative talents.<\/p>\n<p>This evening Gerald shared an e-mail with me from someone else in the audience on Friday (I hope it\u2019s OK if I pass that on here): <em><span style=\"color: #ffcc00;\">\u201cWow\u2026 today was so moving.\u00a0 I can\u2019t begin to find the words to say how much of what you do touches my heart. I cried throughout, it was so good. You understand us and what we have gone through as a people. I wish there were more people like you. I wish people didn\u2019t hate us just because of who we are but, they do. It\u2019s everywhere and then I have the very good fortune to meet someone like you, someone who does not judge. You are such a good man with a good heart. As my future daughter-in-law says, \u201cI may be white on the outside but, I am brown on the inside.\u201d And this is something you can say too. Thank you so much Gerald and I thank the Creator for showing me you.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>The images above are of Charlie Learjaw and <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Luke Moose<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>. You can view more of Gerald\u2019s incredible graphite portraiture on his website <span style=\"color: #999999;\"><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.portraitsofthenorth.com\/gallery.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span> In case you\u2019re wondering, Gerald spends approximately one month on each portrait\u2014he only works in monochrome, in part, because he is colour-blind).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada I\u2019ve long held that \u201cwe live in stories,\u201d (a notion I first heard expressed in those four eloquent words by colleague Bruce Brown of Brighton, UK, at a Vancouver GDC conference I was participating in a decade ago). This leitmotif was driven home once again for me yesterday morning while attending a keynote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,19,9,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}