Eighth Generation by Louie Gong

at 93 Pike St. #103, Seattle , 98101 United States

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>>>>QUESTIONS?<<<< Please drop by the website. http://WWW.EIGHTHGENERATION.COM/ Louie Gong is Canadian artist, activist, and educator who was raised by his grandparents in the Nooksack tribal community. Although he is best known for his highly sought after, hand-drawn custom shoes, Louie has received international recognition for a body of work that - like his mixed heritage - defies categorization. A former Child and Family Therapist, Louie started addressing the mixed race experience professionally in 2001. He went on to become President of MAVIN, a national non-profit that raises awareness about mixed race people and families, and co-developer of the Mixed Heritage Center. His commentary on race and cultural identity has been featured, in MSNBC.com, the New York Times, NBC Nightly News and BBC. He continues to serve on the Advisory Board of MAVIN and Mixed in Canada. Louie is also the founder of Eighth Generation, through which he merges traditional Coast Salish art with icons from popular culture and influences from his mixed heritage to make strong statements about identity. His trend-setting aesthetic has been featured at the Smithsonian's NMAI and the cover of Native People's Magazine. Rather than following the well-worn pathway for artists toward working with galleries, Louie has pursued product development as a means of making his work sustainable while keeping it accessible. In 2012, Louie’s launched “Mockups”, a DIY art toy based on his work with youth and his desire to a make the experience of personalizing a pair of shoes more accessible. He followed up by launching a home decor and phone cases in 2013. By financing and developing these products on his own, he hopes to blaze a trail to a greater degree of self-determination for other artists and entrepreneurs. Collectively, Louie's unique merger of art and activism has been the subject of UNRESERVED: the Work of Louie Gong, a Longhouse Media film that was selected to screen at prestigious film festivals around the world, including Festival De Cannes and National Geographic’s All Roads Film Festival, and Schuhe Machen Leute, a 2013 documentary produced in Germany. In 2012, Louie began an artistic partnership with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian called Design Yourself: I AM NMAI, and a collaboration with Manitobah Mukluks that led to the "LG Gatherer", a limited edition boot that has already sold out of it's first 3 runs. Louie was recently honored with the cover of Native People's Magazine, and Native Max Magazine's list of the "Top 10 Inspirational Native's: Past and Present". He also received the Seattle Indian Health Board's Adeline Garcia's Community Service Award, through which the nation's largest Urban Indian Health Clinic recognizes community leaders for volunteer service.

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• Mondays: 10:00- 17:00
• Tuesdays: 10:00- 17:00
• Wednesdays: 10:00- 17:00
• Thursdays: 10:00- 17:00
• Fridays: 10:00- 17:00
• Saturdays: 10:00- 17:00
• Sundays: 10:00- 17:00

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Eighth Generation by Louie Gong is Seattle based place and this enity listed in Product/Service category. Located at 93 Pike St. #103 WA 98101. Contact phone number of Eighth Generation by Louie Gong: (206) 430-6233