More on (traditional) stone carving and lung hazards HazArt

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Study probes link between soapstone and cancer – Waterloo Record
Forty-six-year-old Jimmy Cookie feels dizzy and has trouble breathing every time he carves into a slab of soapstone.
Now, University of Manitoba researchers are looking at whether Cookie’s lung problems could be linked with the traditional [...]

Other examples for use in HazArt mitigation

I still don’t have access to my deep storage of projects (wouldn’t your community like its very own “overqualified” thinker?) but there are other sources of information to understand and protect one’s self and environment. I will point to these sources here.
Pottery (shaping and firing) has already been mentioned here
| Native Crafts Health Effects [...]

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

As part of the HazArt project | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) | we tested the ambient air quality during a firing of black-on-black (reduced) pottery. This field project was a collaboration of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., Sandia National Laboratory, and Tewa Women United.
The project [...]

On-line exhibit Maria Martinez

Following up on

http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/10/07/ maria-martinez%e2%80%99s-open-source-earthenware/

there is an on-line exhibit, fairly superficial, but will give a taste of the quality and history.

Touched by Fire: The Art, Life, and Legacy of Maria Martinez -
http://www.miaclab.org/exhibits/maria/index.html

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Maria Martinez’s open-source earthenware

This newstory gives the background to the revitalization of Pueblo traditional pottery styles in the early to mid-20th century. Kathy Sanchez and her sister were colleagues in the HazArt study of potential occupational hazards. | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) |
Maria Martinez… drew no lines between art, [...]

Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show

[revised 2008july15, 2008july19]
“Friday morning people from various pueblos hustled in the hot sun to prepare for the weekend’s 35th Annual Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Arts & Crafts Show.”
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/46448.html This link no longer works.

A direct link to this year’s show is
2008-07-15
http://www.eightnorthernpueblos.com/
My apologies. There has not been a permanent link to ENIPC, Inc or to the [...]

science superstition religion 1992

December 2, 1992
Larry Calloway, Albuquerque Journal (http://www.larrycalloway.com/biography.html)
Dear Mr. Calloway:
As you pointed out in your column yesterday, there are federal (as well as state and tribal) environmental laws against pothunting **. These secular sanctions need to be publicized better.
It is incorrect, however, to state as you did, that the supernatural sanctions [...]

AUTHENTIC ALASKAN ARTS AND CRAFTS

AUTHENTIC ALASKAN ARTS AND CRAFTS
http://www.dced.state.ak.us/ oed/student_info/learn/nativearts.htm

The stores and gift shops of Alaska are filled with delightful items – fine art pieces worked in walrus ivory, soapstone, jade and other natural materials prints, paintings and pottery; clothing and jewelry; and fun souvenirs to bring home to family and friends. But not all of these items are [...]

How to Buy Genuine American Indian Arts and Crafts

Because I have been concerned with the

Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) -
safety and environmental aspects

[and here, http://13C4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/pueblo-envtl-concerns-solutions/] of Native crafts and art, and in

Small Business in Western Alaska -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/small-business-in-western-alaska/

selling such crafts to the public for artisans, I have also had to learn [...]

Survey of Environment, Safety, and Health Concerns of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople

Survey of Environment, Safety, and Health Concerns of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople (Summer 1993)
The Environmental Office of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council and the Northern Pueblos Institute of Northern New Mexico Community College are interested in knowing if artists and craftsmen are concerned about whether there are health, safety, or environmental risks to [...]

Lung Protection Pamphlet Released

[please note contact info is out of date] Press Release For More Information, Call:

Karen Young, Coordinator, Northern Pueblos Institute, Northern New Mexico Community College, 505-747-2194
M. Pamela Bumsted, Ph.D., Assoc. Director, Environmental Office, Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, 505-852-4265

For Release
October 4, 1994 [...]

HazArt1 Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople

FOR RELEASE ON 18 JULY 1993
Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project

The Environmental Office of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc. and the Northern Pueblos Institute of Northern New Mexico Community College are interested in knowing if artists and craftsmen are concerned about whether there are health, safety, [...]