Project Grant

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2021 Sonta Hamilton Roach in Shageluk Deg Hit’an Carving Traditions

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A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2021 Sonta Hamilton Roach in ShagelukDeg 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 program. … Read more

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 AkutanStory 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 regalia. … 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 CenterStory 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 What … 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

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 CenterStory 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 the … Read more

Education Project Grant- Alaska Native Birthworkers Community Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula Training

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Alaska Native Birthworkers Community Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula Training Grantee: Alaska Native Birthworkers Community, Story by Helena Jacobs, Project Coordinator The Alaska Native Birthworkers Community (ANBC) contracted with Melissa Brown (Anishinaabe-Dine midwife) and Candace Neumann (Indigenous doula) of Zaagi’idiwin to offer a virtual Full Spectrum Indigenous doula training for current and aspiring Alaska Native/Indigenous birthworkers. … Read more