{"id":34694,"date":"2018-08-23T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bronze-house-posts-to-be-unveiled-sunday-downtown\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:05:00","slug":"bronze-house-posts-to-be-unveiled-sunday-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bronze-house-posts-to-be-unveiled-sunday-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze house posts to be unveiled Sunday downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three bronze house posts will take their place in front of the Walter Soboleff Building in downtown Juneau this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Each post is made by a different emerging Alaska Native artist &mdash; Tlingit Stephen Jackson, Haida TJ Young and Tsimshian David R. Boxley &mdash; and the Sealaska Heritage Institute is holding a public ceremony to unveil them at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The ceremony is open to anybody, and will be streamed live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SHInstitute\/\" target=\"_blank\">SHI&rsquo;s Facebook page<\/a>. The posts will be at the former of Front and Seward streets. <\/p>\n<p>A house post is similar to a totem pole, but is usually a little bit smaller. Each post tells a different story that is specific to Tlingit, Haida or Tsimshian culture, and the explanation of each one can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sealaskaheritage.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.sealaskaheritage.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of SHI&rsquo;s goal to make Juneau the capital of the Northwest Coast art world, and SHI President Rosita Worl said efforts like this are vital to the survival of Native artwork.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s exciting to see these posts carved in a traditional way in wood and then cast in a contemporary material,&rdquo; Worl said in a press release. &ldquo;These pieces demonstrate that our cultures and our art are alive, thriving and evolving through our younger generations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three bronze house posts will take their place in front of the Walter Soboleff Building in downtown Juneau this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":34695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[185,87,322,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska-natives","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-events","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34694"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}