The Alaska State Museum broke new ground this year — not on the new building, but inside it, where Chilkat weaver Anna Brown Ehlers has been restoring a 100-year-old diving whale dancing blanket in ...

Ruth Hallows weaving "Nüüm Batsda Da Gyemsax - Carry Us Home" (photo courtesy @sydneyakagiphoto; all other images Ruth Hallows/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) This article is part of a series ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute selected Chilkat weaver Sydney Akagi to weave the first 100% mountain goat Chilkat robe in more than 150 years. A selected dancer will wear the robe at SHI’s biennial dance ...

It was not a pretty robe when it arrived at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage last spring. The tassels were frayed and twisted, the colors faded. The Tlingit ceremonial garment called a ...

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Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving is a skill and an artform that was almost abandoned in northwestern Canada. Now it is undergoing a renaissance. It began with Clarissa Rizal, from Juneau, Alaska. 25 ...

Chilkat weaving has been practiced for hundreds of years by Indigenous people on the Northwest Coast. The intricate design is a kind of woven record, documenting history and clan migration. In Juneau, ...

It has long been forbidden for men to weave in the Chilkat tradition, but Tlingit artist Ricky Tagaban is an exception. Using techniques practiced for thousands of years, Tagaban creates his trademark ...

Tlingit weaver Clarissa Rizal of Juneau is among 10 artists named as National Heritage Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts on Thursday. A press release from the national organization ...