"skin sewing"

With no large-scale tanneries in Southeast Alaska, hunters have few options to continue their traditional cultural practices of skin-sewing sea otters.

Pavlik says the sustainability of her work honors the approaches her ancestors took to crafts.

Sealaska Heritage Institute aims to expand the practice of traditional Alaska Native skin-sewing with a series of workshops in communities around Southeast Alaska.

Alaskans may know Iñupiaq artist Holly Nordlum as a graphic designer, jewelry maker and creator of art that provokes conversations about the painful history of organized religion’s impacts on Native people.

Yup’ik artist Peter Williams of Sitka is headed to the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, under a Rasmuson Foundation-funded artist-in-residence program.