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Sven V. Ortquist (Apia, January 16, 1938 – Seattle, June 15, 2013) was a Samoan artist, wood-carver, and sculptor. Besides a carver, he was a boat builder, book illustrator, and painter. He has been awarded the Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures’ Heritage Award and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has been the Master Carver for the American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture and the Humanities. He has also been the resident artist at Jean P. Haydon Museum. Ortquist was the founder and first president of the , Aiga Tautai o Samoa. Ortquist has been an artist-in-residence at the territory’s largest college, American Samoa Community College and has also worked with a United Nations program teaching and constructing cheap plywood fishing boats for the poor.

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  • Sven V. Ortquist (Apia, 16 de enero de 1938-Seattle, 15 de junio de 2013) fue un escultor, ebanista, naviero y pintor samoano. Su obra sale en el documental “The Samoan Heart” (1996)​ Su madre era samoana, y su padre un comerciante cocotero sueco, y se crio con su familia en Apia. En su infancia contrajo la lepra, y fue formándose en distintas instituciones gracias al apoyo de misiones católicas. Su obra se centra mucho en la figura de San José y tiene un gran mural frente al museo de Fagatogo y otro en la Catedral de la Sagrada Familia en Tafuna. (es)
  • Sven V. Ortquist (Apia, January 16, 1938 – Seattle, June 15, 2013) was a Samoan artist, wood-carver, and sculptor. Besides a carver, he was a boat builder, book illustrator, and painter. He has been awarded the Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures’ Heritage Award and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has been the Master Carver for the American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture and the Humanities. He has also been the resident artist at Jean P. Haydon Museum. Ortquist was the founder and first president of the , Aiga Tautai o Samoa. Ortquist has been an artist-in-residence at the territory’s largest college, American Samoa Community College and has also worked with a United Nations program teaching and constructing cheap plywood fishing boats for the poor. (en)
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  • Sven V. Ortquist (Apia, 16 de enero de 1938-Seattle, 15 de junio de 2013) fue un escultor, ebanista, naviero y pintor samoano. Su obra sale en el documental “The Samoan Heart” (1996)​ Su madre era samoana, y su padre un comerciante cocotero sueco, y se crio con su familia en Apia. En su infancia contrajo la lepra, y fue formándose en distintas instituciones gracias al apoyo de misiones católicas. Su obra se centra mucho en la figura de San José y tiene un gran mural frente al museo de Fagatogo y otro en la Catedral de la Sagrada Familia en Tafuna. (es)
  • Sven V. Ortquist (Apia, January 16, 1938 – Seattle, June 15, 2013) was a Samoan artist, wood-carver, and sculptor. Besides a carver, he was a boat builder, book illustrator, and painter. He has been awarded the Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures’ Heritage Award and the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. He has been the Master Carver for the American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture and the Humanities. He has also been the resident artist at Jean P. Haydon Museum. Ortquist was the founder and first president of the , Aiga Tautai o Samoa. Ortquist has been an artist-in-residence at the territory’s largest college, American Samoa Community College and has also worked with a United Nations program teaching and constructing cheap plywood fishing boats for the poor. Ortquist was born in Western Samoa and is the son of a Swedish coconut trader, Gustav Adolph Ortquist, and a Samoan mother, Muimui Vale from Vailima. His father first came from Sweden to Apia, Samoa in order to work as an accountant. Ortquist was profiled in the documentary “The Samoan Heart” (1996). (en)
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