Study for Two Views by Shan Goshorn
name: label: Artist
content: Goshorn, Shan
label: Names
content: United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
label: Names
content: Torlino, Tom
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Study for Two Views was donated by NAA archivist Gina Rappaport in 2019, who received it as a gift from the artist in 2018.
creator: label: Artist
content: Goshorn, Shan
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Shan Goshorn (1957-2018) was an Eastern Band Cherokee Artist whose work addresses human rights issues, particularly those of indigenous peoples.  Goshorn worked with many different media, including photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture. In 2008, Goshorn was commissioned to create illustrations of Cherokee basket patterns for the Department of the Interior Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Having closely studied the baskets and their construction, she then decided to try making them, and soon mastered complex designs. Goshorn became best known for her baskets, which represent a contemporary approach to a traditional art.

Goshorn's baskets are made of paper splints, and often incorporate historical texts and photographs. The paper is printed with either text or photographs, sometimes hand-painted, and then cut into splints. Typically the baskets  have photographs as the warp, and text as the weft so the photographs are reformed with words running through them. 

In 2013, Goshorn received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and spent time studying the  Carlisle Indian School photographs by John N. Choate at the National Anthropological Archives. From this fellowship came more than five baskets that address the trauma inflicted by the boarding schools on young Indian children. Her work has been widely exhibited and is held in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian and many other private and public collections.

Sources used:

Philip Earenfight, ed. Shan Goshorn: Resisting the Mission. The Trout Gallery: Dickinson College, 2018.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.75 Linear feet
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Artwork)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2018
container: label: Container
content: Box 2019-06
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2019-06
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Works of art
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Finding aid encoded by Gina Rappaport, 2019.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Study for Two Views is a woven reproduction of before-and-after portraits of Tom Torlino (1879), a Diné  student at the Carlisle Indian School. The two portraits are woven together, creating one face out of two portraits. 

Ink-jet print and acrylic paint on paper mounted on board. Signed, titled, and dated on mount recto.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds photographs of Carlisle Industrial Indian School, made by John N. Choate, which include the before-and-after photographs of Tom Torlino.

The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College holds Goshorn's basket Two Views, which weaves together the before-and-after portraits of Tom Torlino with several texts, including a Diné (Navajo) prayer for well-being, Torlino's school records, and family stories of Torlino's life.