Three young Alaska Native artists, including one from Ketchikan and one from Hydaburg, have been chosen to carve cedar house posts that will be cast in bronze and displayed in front of the Walter Soboleff Building in Juneau.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
JACC sports new paint thanks to Anchorage graffiti artist
Anchorage artist Will Kozloff the Alaska State Council of the Arts and the Alaska Humanities Forum to do the set pieces for the Governor’s Awards for the Arts in January. The mural outside of the JACC is his.
Islands of the Four Mountains’ artifacts exhibited for the first time
Unalaskans can now explore one of the chain’s most isolated areas thanks to a new exhibit at the Museum of the Aleutians.
Descendants gather to welcome Chirikof ancestors home
After years of work, ancestral remains from a 19th century settlement on Chirikof Island have returned home.
‘I Am Inuit’ goes from Instagram to Anchorage Museum
“I Am Inuit,” a new photography exhibit more than a year in the making, show is a body of images from artist Brian Adams that premiered last week at the Anchorage Museum.
Presbyterian Church formally apologizes to North Slope Natives for denouncing culture
The idea is to start a process of healing by acknowledging that the Church, however well intended, was wrong, when it denounced the cultures of Native people, both in Alaska and across the nation.
Red Carpet Concert: ‘Listen’ from ‘They Don’t Talk Back’
Skyler Ray-Benson Davis performs “Listen” from the play “They Don’t Talk Back.”
Alutiiq language documentary almost complete
A documentary team just came to Kodiak to screen its Alutiiq language film and get feedback. “Keep Talking” covers the revitalization of the Alutiiq language on the island, and records the effort of passing the language down from elders to the younger generation.
‘They Don’t Talk Back’ comes home to Southeast with Perseverance Theatre premiere
“They Don’t Talk Back” opens at Perseverance Theatre tonight (Friday, Jan. 27). Among other themes, it’s a play about family, identity, colonization and cultural preservation. It features three generations of Tlingit men in Southeast Alaska facing change.
Ernestine Saankalaxt’ Hayes to be named 17th Alaska State Writer Laureate
The Alaska State Council on the Arts facilitates the selection of the Writer Laureate. The Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities can be seen on 360 North beginning at 8 p.m.