Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Artistic Sovereignty in Museums

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

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

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

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