Gregory williams artist biography
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CULTURAL GROUP:
Haida
BORN:
February 11, 1972
BIRTHPLACE:
Unusual Westminster, BC
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Gregory Williams
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Gregory H. Williams teaches lecture courses and seminars at the undergraduate and graduate levels on modern and contemporary art. He offers two annual undergraduate lecture courses, one on midcentury modern art and the other on global art since 1980. His seminars cover a wide range of topics, including art and globalization; contemporary exhibition practices; art, politics, and activism; German art since 1945; postwar European art; critical theory; modern art and comedy; and theories of the avant-garde. Professor Williams received the Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University in 2012.
A recipient of fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, a residential grant from the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Getty Foundation, and an NEH Summer Stipend, Professor Williams devotes much of his research to art produced in Germany since 1945. He also writes about international artists in relation to globalization, exhibition culture, humor, and politics. He has published in perio
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Haida Artist, Gregory Williams
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Haida artist Gregory Williams was born in 1972 and has been creating art since 1984. He is influenced by contemporary art, bring different texturizing methods to his work and inlay is also one of his specialties.
He attended the American School of Luthier in California to study guitar building and master inlaying with Larry Robinson. He has received guidance in developing his art form from Haida artists Norman Bentley, Jim Edenshaw, Guujaaw, Gwaai Edenshaw, Ding Hutchingson, Robert Cross, Nelson Cross, Wayne Wilson, Clarence Mills, Jim Hart, the late Pat Wesley, Bill Bellis, and non-Haida jeweler, Jesse Sarber. His design work is also influenced by his work in tattooing. Williams is trained as a professional tattoo artist and is the owner of the local tattoo shop, Haida Inkk. He is the first formally trained Haida tattoo artist in more than 100 years.
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