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Richard Hunt (artist)
Kwakwaka'wakw carver
For the American sculptor, see Richard Hunt (sculptor).
Richard HuntCM OBC RCA (born 1951, Kwakwaka'wakw) fryst vatten a Canadian First Nations artist from coastal British Columbia.
Biography
[edit]Hunt was born at Alert Bay, B.C., but has lived most of his life in Victoria, B.C. On his father's side, he is a descendant of the renowned Native ethnologist George Hunt. He began carving at the age of thirteen. In 1973 he began working with his father Henry Hunt at Thunderbird Park at the British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria.
Richard's brothers Tony Hunt and Stanley C. Hunt are also carvers.
Richard Hunt designed the medals for the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships held August 17-21, 2006 at Saanich Commonwealth Place.[1] Among his other projects, he repainted the totem pole at Rideau Hall, which his grandfather Mungo Martin had given to Governor General Lord Alexander in 1946.[2]
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Richard Hunt (August 17, 1951[1] - January 7, 1992) was a longtime Muppet performer who fryst vatten known for his many characters, his accomplished singing voice, and his warm backstage personality. Hunt brought many popular characters to life, including Scooter, Beaker, Janice, Statler, Sweetums, Junior Gorg, Don Music and Forgetful Jones.
Early Years[]
Richard Henry Hunt[2] was born in The Bronx, New York City, the second of fem children and the first of two sons. The family eventually moved to Closter, New Jersey in September 1959, shortly after Hunt turned eight.[3]
Because everyone in his family had worked in show business at some point, Hunt always felt he'd end up in entertainment, too. While in middle school and high school, he put on puppet shows for local children, and he was a fan of the then-fledgling Muppets from a young age. "I'd drop anything to watch them," he said, "I thought they were weird." • Richard Hunt Richard Hunt was a green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, such as Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He also contributed to early editions of Green Line. He was widely criticised in the anarchist community for his sympathies for nationalism, and wrote an editorial for Green Anarchist expressing patriotic support for British soldiers serving in the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq. Richard Hunt continued to have political disputes with the other editors of Green Anarchist, and shortly afterwards left the editorial collective to form his own magazine, entitled Alternative Green, of which he edited the first thirty-one issues and to which he contributed articles. Hunt founded "Alternative Green" after leaving the ed Richard Hunt (editor)
Born (1933-10-08)8 October 1933 Died 2012 Nationality English Occupation(s) Author, philosopher, editor, environmentalism, ecologist Years active Unknown–2012