A Journey to What Matters Project Grant Wellness & Healing Through Our Culture & Connections From Rochelle Adams, Project Facilitator The Drum Making Workshop was amazing. It was a great way to bring people together over a difficult issue and to uplift one another and promote healing while practicing culture and connecting with the community. … Read more
Participating in the INDIGEFI “Native Artist” Podcast Series By Golga Oscar, INDIGEFI Featured Artist Project funded in part by A Journey to What Matters Project Grant Program My experience interviewing with Producer Alexis Sallee (TCF Recipient) for the INDIGEFI “Native Artist” podcast series was great. For my art career, I’ve been researching the means of … Read more
A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2021 Sonta Hamilton Roach in Shageluk Deg Hit’an Carving Traditions 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 … Read more
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 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 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
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
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 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
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