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

A Journey to What Matters- Alaska Native PLACE in the Pandemic

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Alaska Native PLACE in the Pandemic Grantee: Alaska Native Heritage Center Story from Melissa Shaginoff, TCF Recipient and Project Coordinator Over the past year, the grassroots collective Alaska Native PLACE (Providing Living Artists Creative Environments) undertook the planning of seven intergenerational art workshops with mentor Alaska Native artists and Alaska Native participants from all over … Read more

A Journey to What Matters and ASCA Partnership- Graduate ARTShops 2021: Caribou Tufting and Beading Medallions

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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 Arts and Culture Foundation 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 … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Revitalizing Cottage Industry and Intergenerational Work in Rural Alaska to Strengthen Community, Self-Reliance, and the Northwest Coast Weaving Traditions

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Revitalizing Cottage Industry and Intergenerational Work in Rural Alaska to Strengthen Community, Self-Reliance, and the Northwest Coast Weaving Traditions Grantee: Friends of the State Library, Archives and Museum Story from Weavers of Chilkat and Ravenstail, Photos by Sydney Akagi Photography Seasoned Weaver, Lily Hope (Tlingit), is a full-time artist, teacher and weaver of Northwest Coast … Read more

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2020 Bentwood Box Making Class

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A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2020 Bentwood Box Making Class Story by Robert Mills 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. … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- “Native Artist” Explores Identity and Lost History

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“Native Artist” Explores Identity and Lost History By Alexis Sallee, INDIGEFI Host and Producer I’m Alexis Sallee, host and producer of INDIGEFI, a weekly one-hour public radio show featuring an eclectic blend of modern Indigenous music. Aside from the weekly radio show, I’ve worked in audio for film and TV in the greater Los Angeles … Read more

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2020 Braiding Beach Grass

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A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2020 Braiding Beach Grass Story by Apay’uq Moore 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 … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Alaska Native Design: Parkas by Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Alaska

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An Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project funded through A Journey to What Matters Pilot Project- Alaska Native Design: Parkas Grantee: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Alaska, Story by Dawn Biddison, Museum Specialist For the 2020 pilot of the Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project, Amelia “Amy” … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Culture Box: Art Kits for Youth

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 Culture Box: Art Kits for Youth A Journey to What Matters Grantee: Alaska Native Heritage Center In the midst of a world pandemic, the world we knew then came to a halt and the impact was devastating to the Alaska Native Heritage Center (ANHC). In the spirit of our Alaska Native Heritage Center Ten Universal … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Artist in Residency at Anchorage Museum: Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn 

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Artist in Residency at Anchorage Museum: Sarah Ayaqi Whalen-Lunn Block and test print of Release, my project for the residency. During my month in residency with the Anchorage Museum I chose to work on one specific lino carving. It was interesting for me to have to slow down and think about my process and then … Read more