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This is a list of artists from Alaska, for whom most of their working artistic career has been in the state. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Alaska Native cultures are rich and diverse, and their art forms are representations of their history, skills, tradition, adaptation, and nearly twenty thousand years of continuous life in some of the most remote places on earth. These art forms are largely unseen and unknown outside the state of Alaska, due to distance from the art markets of ...
Jackson at work in his studio in August 2012. Nathan Jackson (born August 29, 1938) [1] is an Alaska Native artist. He is among the most important living Tlingit artists [2] and the most important Alaskan artists. [3] He is best known for his totem poles, but works in a variety of media. Jackson belongs to the Sockeye clan on the Raven side of ...
This list includes notable visual artists who are Inuit, Alaskan Natives, Siberian Yup'ik, American Indians, First Nations, Métis, Mestizos, and Indigenous peoples of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. Indigenous identity is a complex and contested issue and differs from country to country in the Americas.
Birdsall was a prolific painter in Alaska for five decades. [1] He painted landscapes and portraits, both in watercolour and oil paintings. [1][2][4] He did many paintings of Anchorage. [5] Birdsall did prints from the early part of his career onwards. For example, he designed a limited edition of 500 prints for the commemoration of the ...
April 1, 2001. (2001-04-01) (aged 89) Alaska. Website. ahgupuk.com. George Aden Ahgupuk (October 8, 1911–April 1, 2001), also called Twok (Tuwaaq in the Modern Iñupiaq orthography), was an Eskimo -American artist known for his paintings and drawings of Inupiaq life. [1] In addition to works on paper, Ahgupuk created ink-wash artwork on ...
Kesler Edward "Kes" Woodward (born 1951) is an American artist, art historian and curator. Known for his colorful paintings of northern landscapes, he was awarded the first Alaska Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2004. [1] Woodward has also written extensively on the Art of the circumpolar North and has curated ...
Movement. Northwest Coast art, contemporary Native art. Robert James "Jim" Schoppert (May 28, 1947 – September 2, 1992) was an Tlingit Alaska Native artist and educator. His work includes woodcarving, painting, poetry, and essays. He has been described as an innovator, whose works pushed the boundaries of what was expected from Northwest ...