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Pintail Turnhead, 1983 Tupelo gum; 18 x 9 in. Nick Spitzer, American Routes Collections 322 ART IN CONTEMPORARY LOUISIANA IRVAN PÉREZ b. 1923, Delacriox, Louisiana d. 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana Irvan Pérez, a woodcarver, singer, and storyteller, was a vocal spokesman for the preservation of the culture of the Isleños community. Centered in St. Bernard Parish, the Isleños are the descendants of Spanish-speaking Canary Islanders who settled in Southeast Louisiana two hundred years ago. Pérez was a master of the traditional crafts of his community and created elaborately detailed and realistic carvings of wildfowl and songbirds painted with hand-mixed oil pigments. Pérez was also a skilled storyteller and singer of decimas, traditional a cappella Isleños ballads that he performed at Carnegie Hall and countless festivals throughout the nation. He received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991. LEH  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1329 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1329

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