There was an interesting catalog from a museum in New Brunswick (or
PEI?) based on lawn art in their neighborhood - photos of real stuff, and
photos of "installations" - a mobile home with alternating red and white
painted rocks lining the walk, a carriage wheel mounted on a shaft with
red and white petunia baskets hanging from the spokes, etc.  I sent it on
to a professor friend in Fairbaanks, so can't pull it out of the files.
SOMEONE in Canada will remember it.  Don't know if they dealt with kitch
vs tacky specifically, but lawn art by definition.....
     Contemporary ethnic beadwork is alive and well in Alaska.  We
occasionally house a Tlingit beadwork class, the Athapaskans do great
involved stuff still, and beaded sealskin slippers are common, made by
both Yupik and Inupiat.  If you need names of contemporary beaders, give
a holler.
     Diane Brenner, Anchorage Museum
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