A grant approved by Great Falls’ Public Schools has allowed for Native Americans across the United States to bring their ...
Alison Marks marked the spot. Marks, an artist, recently became perhaps the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. The finished piece was raised at noon Oct. 27 in Yakutat by the house ...
A rare wooden rattle attributed to a famous Tlingit artist sold at an art auction in California last month. The 230-year-old piece came from a private collector and sold for half a million dollars.
Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, Tlingit artist James Johnson uses his art as a means to connect with his cultural heritage, while combating the effects of colonization. As a self-taught artist, he is ...
Tlingit elders came together to share their cultural knowledge with the public in the first event of the Art of Place series on Feb. 17 at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau. “Our theme this ...
Allison Mills manually drilled a bit into the base of a massive yellow cedar tree on Prince of Wales Island, in Southeast Alaska. The drizzly August day filled with the dull squeak of metal rubbing ...
The Rasmuson Foundation recognized Haines master carver Wayne Price as its 2020 Distinguished Artist on Monday. Each year the foundation presents the $40,000 award to an Alaskan who has made ...
As customers strolled into a shop boasting authentic Alaska Native made artwork, a salesman humored them with stories of how he learned the craft from his family, according to federal authorities. But ...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Amos Wallace was a keeper. So his longtime home on Juneau’s Douglas Island held numerous documents from his nearly 70-year career. Since he and his wife Dorothy passed away, ...
The Rasmuson Foundation announced the 36 artists that will receive grant awards in 2020. In a first for the foundation, the awards were opened to collaborative groups as well as individual artists.
In 1899, railroad tycoon Edward Harriman put together an expedition of naturalists, scientists, painters and fellow robberbarons to explore the coast of southeast Alaska. The shrewd Harriman, head of ...