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ASM Exhibitions & Events

Free Natural Dye Workshop for Ages 8-18 with Lily Hope

making a natural dye with wolf mossSaturday, June 10, 10 am-12 pm, APK (outdoors)

Learn how natural dyes blend art and science, and create your own dyed yarn with Tlingit weaver Lily Hope.

Lily is an artist, teacher, and community facilitator who specializes in Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving and has taught natural dye techniques, spinning, and weaving both locally and internationally. Recommended for youth ages 8 and up. Request a spot by filling out the participation form.

Learn more about Youth Art Activities at the APK.

This program is partially funded by the citizens of the City and Borough of Juneau through sales tax revenues and is sponsored by the Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum.

Summer Family Fair in the APK Plaza

2022 family fairFriday, June 23, 11 am-3 pm
Outdoors (weather permitting)

Bring the whole family for an afternoon of activities at the APK!

No registration is required and families may drop in any time.

This program is partially funded by the citizens of the City and Borough of Juneau through sales tax revenues and is sponsored by the Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum.

Visceral: Verity, Legacy, Identity

Friday, May 5, 2023
Opening 4:30-7 pm
Panel discussion 6:30 pm

Visceral: Verity, Legacy, Identity - Alaska Native Gut Knowledge and Perseverance is a group of three interrelated exhibitions co-curated by artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs that explore contemporary and historical Alaska Native issues, spotlighting gut as a conduit for Indigenous voices.

Co-curator and artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs, co-curator and conservator Dr. Ellen Carrlee, and anthropologist Dr. Sven Haakanson, Jr. will participate in a panel discussion at 6:30 pm.

The exhibit trilogy

Visceral: Verity, a new exhibition of work by contemporary artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs, includes mixed-media installations that combine natural and synthetic materials and evoke questions of authentic experience, truth, abuse, transparency, and credibility. Kelliher-Combs is one of only a few artists working with marine mammal gut. (See more below.)

Visceral: Legacy expands Kelliher-Combs’s solo exhibition themes through a selection of objects from the museum’s permanent collection.

Visceral: Identity features gut parkas from across Alaska to highlight technical and historical aspects of this remarkable material in cross-cultural perspective.

About Sonya Kelliher-Combs

formline design with bright pink, blues, greens, and brown against dark backgroundGuest curator Sonya Kelliher-Combs is one of only a few artists working with marine mammal gut. Her mixed-media installations combine natural and synthetic materials and evoke questions of authentic experience, truth, abuse, transparency, and credibility. She brings to her art the richness of her experience growing up in Nome, her career as an internationally recognized artist, her life in Anchorage, and her insights as a person of Iñupiaq, Athabascan, and European heritage.

Image credit: Idiot Strings, Credible (detail), Sonya Kelliher-Combs 2022.

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