Andrew Gronholdt

Visual Artist

1915 – 1998

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Who was Andrew Gronholdt?

Andrew Gronholdt was a famous Aleut from Sand Point, Alaska in the Shumagin Islands south of the lower Alaska Peninsula and became famous for rejuvenating the ancient Unangan art of carving hunting hats called chagudax. In January 2012, a book was published posthumously by Gronholdt titled "Chagudax: A Small Window into the Life of An Aleut Bentwood Hat Carver" Gronholdt's woodworking techniques, wood steaming and bending methods, and instructional design methodologies were legendary.

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Born
Aug 26, 1915
Sand Point
Lived in
  • Sand Point
Died
Mar 13, 1998

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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