Arts

Months after the local Joann store closed, the gap in craft supplies in Juneau is being put to the test at a crucially creative time of year: Halloween.

Delivering a blend of indie rock and folk, Ford’s Crystal Salon show was the first in her eight-stop tour spanning Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California.

The cuts involve millions of dollars in grant funding doled out through the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Artists have until Jan. 12 to pitch design concepts for “Together we live in balance.”

“What I want to do is to talk about that feeling of not being accepted between two worlds that really are one,” said artist Daniel Firmin.

Sealaska Heritage Institute put up storyboards last week to educate visitors and protect the poles from mistreatment. 

One of those poles, carved by Gyibaawm Laxha David Robert Boxley, represents the Tsimshian people.

Getting fellowships and awards like this has given Hayes more than funding, she said. It has made her feel valued.

“So they have the benefit of an artist who’s got 50 years of Northwest coast art under my belt. And I bring that all here to the University of Alaska, at Áak’w.”

Growing up, Crystal Worl remembers looking up at the 120-foot-long mural on G Street that showed major events in Anchorage’s history. But there wasn’t anyone in the painting who looked like her.