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 [log in to unmask]