Indigenous artists help skateboarding earn stamp of approval -
The artists see the stamp as a small canvas, a functional art piece that will be seen across the U.S. and beyond.
Alcalá used social media to seek out artists who, besides being talented, were knowledgeable about skateboarding culture. Worl was already on his radar because her brother, Rico, designed the Raven Story stamp in 2021, which honored a central figure in Indigenous stories along the coast in the Pacific Northwest.
“I was born and raised with my great-grandmother, who looked at a stamp kind of like how a young kid would look at an iPhone 13,” Greenwood said. “She entrusted every important news and every important document and everything to a stamp to send it and trust that it got there.” So he is wary of the mainstream’s embrace, as well as the sometimes clique-ish nature, of today’s skateboarding world.
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