Hometown: I am Tlingit Indian from Southeast Alaska. I belong to the Dakl'aweidi Clan (killer whale). I was born and raised in Juneau, AK. The Tlingit art form goes back 10,000 years in Alaska, our ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The new Raven and the Box of Daylight exhibit at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art showcases over 60 blown-glass sculptures that weave together the rich ...
In the late 1990s, Megan Smetzer was an art history graduate student at Williams College in Massachusetts who hadn’t yet settled on a topic for her thesis. Having grown up in Fairbanks, she was ...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 36th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, ...
Zachary James, the registrar of the Haines Sheldon Museum in Haines, Alaska, had a little extra time on his hands during this pandemic and eight mysterious weathered bentwood boxes. ZACHARY JAMES: If ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo/Courtesy) The documentary The Story of Art in Alaska is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, bringing the creativity and ...
“Before here was here, Raven was named only Yéil. He was a white bird, and the world was in darkness.” So begins “Preston Singletary: Raven and the Box of Daylight,” an exhibition on view through ...
purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. "For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, ...
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Awards Visual Artist Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit-Unangax ) with the 2024 Don ...
You can hear the screams at Site Santa Fe. Multidisciplinary Tlingit and Unangax artist Nicholas Galanin’s solo exhibit “Interference Patterns” features a neon sign reading “Take a knee and scream ...
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 ...
Blending traditional Tlingit art forms with modern techniques and themes, Galanin’s work exemplifies the heart of the Don Tyson Prize – access and transformation. First awarded in 2016, the prize ...