A Journey to What Matters - The CIRI Foundation

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2022 Tsimshian Panel Making in Metlakatla with William Bolton

March 21, 2023August 2, 2022 by Communications Manager

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2022 William Bolton in Metlakatla Tsimshian Panel Making 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- Indigenous Watercraft Educational and Research Project

March 21, 2023July 13, 2022 by Communications Manager

An Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project funded through A Journey to What Matters Indigenous Watercraft Educational and Research Project Grantee: University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum of the North, Story by Eduard Zdor I was fortunate to be involved in the Indigenous Watercraft educational and research project University of Alaska Fairbanks … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Litnaurluni Program: Tengautuli Atkuk “The Flying Parka”

February 10, 2023June 24, 2022 by Communications Manager

Litnaurluni Program: Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka Grantee: Calista Education and Culture Inc., Story by Ann Fienup-Riordan Thanks to The CIRI Foundation’s support, Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, and Marie Meade have been working with Calista Education and Culture and the University of Washington Press on a new book, Tengautuli Atkuk/The Flying Parka, to be … Read more

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership- ARTShops 2022 Nikki Corbett Qaspeq Sewing Workshop in Nome

March 21, 2023June 14, 2022 by Communications Manager

A Journey To What Matters and ASCA Partnership ARTShops 2022 Nikki Corbett in Nome Qaspeq Sewing Workshop 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- Traditional Yup’ik Fish Skin Hood

March 21, 2023May 4, 2022 by Communications Manager

Traditional Yup’ik Fish Skin Hood Grantee: Bunnell Street Arts Center, Story by Ilgavak (Peter Williams) Marlene Nielsen taught her mentee Ilgavak (Peter Williams) how to make a traditional Yup’ik fish skin hood from salmon and halibut skins harvested for food. Ilgavak harvested hemlock bark from fall and winter blown down trees. Rendering the bark into … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Lingit Shame Robe

March 21, 2023May 4, 2022 by Communications Manager

Lingit Shame Robe Grantee: Bunnell Street Arts Center, Story by Jennifer Younger & Carol Hughey Jennifer Younger, a contemporary Lingít artist, and Carol Hughey, a classically trained apparel designer, teamed up in the Mentorship program to create a ceremonial shame robe. The robe expresses outrage over the destructive commercial sac-roe herring fishery that violates the … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Parka Project by Bobbie Itta

March 21, 2023April 27, 2022 by Communications Manager

Parka Project by Bobbie Itta Grantee: Bunnell Street Arts Center, Story by Bobby Itta For the past 5 years, my mentee and I talked about doing a parka project. My mentee Bonnie was from Nome, and she never learned to make a parka from her family. Bonnie is a reindeer herder and needed the proper … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Parka Project by Bonnie Scheele

March 21, 2023April 27, 2022 by Communications Manager

Parka Project by Bonnie Scheele Grantee: Bunnell Street Arts Center, Story by Bonnie Scheele I am the recipient of mentorship funds to learn how to create a parka. Bobby Itta and I applied for the mentorship program through Bunnell Street Art Center. Our project was for Bobby to teach me how to make a traditional … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Baby Chilkat Robe Mentor Apprenticeship, By Sydney Akagi

March 21, 2023April 27, 2022 by Communications Manager

Baby Chilkat Robe Mentor Apprenticeship Grantee: Bunnell Street Arts Center, Story and Photos by Sydney Akagi In the fall of 2021 I began weaving a baby Chilkat robe as an apprentice under weaving mentor, Lily Hope. This would be a significant and crucial next step in my journey as a weaver, as it would be … Read more

A Journey To What Matters- Museum Sovereignty Fellowship

March 21, 2023March 2, 2022 by Communications Manager

A Journey to What Matters Project Grant Museum Sovereignty Fellowship From Patricia Wenstrup, Project Fellow In the fall of 2021 I was a fellow at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center. During my fellowship I worked with Dawn Biddison, a museum specialist. One of the most exciting aspects of our work together was learning about how … Read more