A Journey To What Matters- Tlingit Cedar Woven Hat Class

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A Journey to What Matters Project Grant Tlingit Cedar Woven Hat Class From Teal Hansen, Project Participant After receiving the honor of this grant, the Native Village of Eyak (NVE) in Cordova, Alaska proudly offered Ilanka Cultural Center (ICC) members the opportunity to create a cedar woven hat taught by master Haida weaver, Holly Churchill, … Read more

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2021 Golga Oscar in Tununak: Yup’ik Regalia

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A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2021 Golga Oscar in Tununak: Yup’ik Regalia The ARTShops program is a collaboration between the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation and The CIRI Foundation’s A Journey to What Matters: Increased Alaska Native Arts and Culture grant program. Established in … Read more

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2021 Ciivalek Kameksak

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A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2021 Ciivalek Kameksak Story by Merna Wharton The ARTShops program is a collaboration between the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation and The CIRI Foundation’s A Journey to What Matters: Increased Alaska Native Arts and Culture grant program. Established in … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Unangax̂ Regalia Making Workshop in Akutan

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Unangax̂ Regalia Making Workshop in Akutan Grantee: Native Village of Akutan Story from Haliehana Stepetin, Workshop Leader The Regalia Making Workshop held in Akutan on August 3rd through 13th, 2021 was a wonderful community event that brought together an intergenerational group of participants around a shared desire to learn and revitalize Unangax̂ Ancestral clothing and … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Exploring Alaska Native Gut: Exhibition Collections, and Artistic Development

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An Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project funded through A Journey to What Matters Exploring Alaska Native Gut: Exhibition Collections, and Artistic Development Grantee: Alaska State Museum, Story by Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Artist All the indigenous cultures of Alaska have historically used gut, a material with unique physical and metaphysical properties, to … Read more

A Journey to What Matters and ASCA Partnership- Graduate ARTShops 2021: Cauyaq Making

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A Journey to What Matters and ASCA Partnership- Graduate ARTShops 2021 The ARTShops program is a collaboration between the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Alaska Native Heritage Center and The CIRI Foundation’s A Journey to What Matters: Increased Alaska Native Arts and Culture grant program. Established in 2016, ARTShops support emerging Alaska Native … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Ancient Whistle Virtually Bringing Us Together

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Ancient Whistle Virtually Bringing Us Together Grantee: Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center Story from Karla Booth, Project Participant I am Karla Booth, Ts’msyen of the Raven Clan and my family comes from the community of Metlakatla, though I live on Dena’ina lands in Anchorage. I want to express gratitude for The CIRI Foundation, Journey to … Read more

A Journey to What Matters and ASCA Partnership- Graduate ARTShops 2021: Hide Work in Continuous Community

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A Journey to What Matters and ASCA Partnership- Graduate ARTShops 2021 The ARTShops program is a collaboration between the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Alaska Native Heritage Center and The CIRI Foundation’s A Journey to What Matters: Increased Alaska Native Arts and Culture grant program. Established in 2016, ARTShops support emerging Alaska Native … Read more

TCF Recipient- Hannah Lowery

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Thank you TCF! Story and Photo from Hannah Lowery I am going into my senior year of college in the nursing program at Arizona State University. Currently, my plan is to become a postpartum nurse or further my education with graduate school. These scholarships made it possible for me to further my education and begin … Read more

TCF Recipient- Jacob Schmidt

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The Gift of Continuing Education Story and Photo from Jacob Schmidt Dear The CIRI Foundation, I wanted to take a moment and try to put into words what the support I have received over the years has meant to me. Financial support from The CIRI foundation has allowed me to pursue educational goals beyond my … Read more