Investigating the life and work of Siberian Yupik artist Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk

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An Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project funded through A Journey to What Matters Investigating the life and work of Siberian Yupik artist Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk Grantee: Anchorage Museum Yup’ik artist Amber Webb is working as a Museum Sovereignty Curatorial Fellow with the Anchorage Museum on a project investigating the life … Read more

Healing Through Educational Programs

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An Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project funded through A Journey to What Matters Healing Through Educational Programs Grantee: Kodiak History Museum Fissions of Native Identity is an exhibit that was proposed and co-curated by Native community members in Kodiak, and it is the first exhibit created using Kodiak History Museum’s … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Salmon Culture

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An Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums Project funded through A Journey to What Matters Salmon Culture Grantee: Pratt Museum The exhibition project, Salmon Culture, was developed at the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska with an Alaska Native curatorial team including Anna Hoover, Erin Gingrich, Drew Michael, Ilgavak Peter Williams, Rochelle Adams and Nadia … 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 Ellen Carlee The CIRI Foundation funding recently brought together artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Athabascan) and Alaska State Museum (ASM) staff to begin a … Read more

A Journey to What Matters- Indigenous Watercraft Educational and Research Project

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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- 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- 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