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Native art reflects traditions, new media and techniques

Native art reflects traditions, new media and techniques

A virtual gallery of art from Celebration 2012 that’s now on display at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.

UAF partners with Google to preserve Alaska Native languages

UAF partners with Google to preserve Alaska Native languages

Alaska’s 20 native languages are a generation away from disappearing. But a new effort is adding technology to the list of tools for saving the languages.

Revisiting the 2012 Alaska Folk Festival

Revisiting the 2012 Alaska Folk Festival

An audio slideshow of the Alaska Folk Festival, 2012.

Festival celebrates Buddy Tabor, Barb Kalen

Festival celebrates Buddy Tabor, Barb Kalen

Southeast Alaska lost two well-known and much-loved acoustic musicians during the past year.

Video: Tennessee jug band plays folk fest

Video: Tennessee jug band plays folk fest

Alaska Folk Festival guest artists The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band perform the song “Big Daddy” at Centennial Hall in Juneau on April 12, 2012.

JDHS Theatre selected for International Fringe Festival

The Juneau Douglas High School Drama Department has been selected to perform next year at the prestigious International Fringe Theatre Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.

New director hired for Alaska State Council on the Arts

Shannon Daut of Denver takes over from the retiring Char Fox.

Graceman exits “Talent” stage

Eleven-year-old Juneau songstress Anna Graceman failed to advance to the final four on NBC’s America’s Got Talent this week.

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SongShine helps people struggling to speak find their voice

Losing the ability to speak clearly is one of the most devastating aspects of having Parkinson’s disease, stroke, or other neurological damage. For years, experts … more

Finding a link to On Your Knees Cave man

What if you could trace your family to a single man who lived over ten millenia ago? It’s a mind-boggling concept that Southeast Alaskan Natives … more