Tlingit Archives - Native Arts and Cultures Foundation

Lily Hope

2018 Mentor Artist Fellowship2018, Alaska, Alaska Native, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Lily Hope is a weaver who brings in-depth ancient Indigenous knowledge and practice into her Chilkat weaving and teaches the tradition to perpetuate it for generations to come.

Chilkat and Ravenstail Weavers Celebrated in Interwoven Radiance

Blog2017, Alaska Native, Community Engagement, Cultural Preservation, Oregon, Support for Native Arts and Cultures, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Weavers Across the Water: Marsha Hotch, Michelle Gray, Debra O’Gara, Douglas Gray, Irene Lampe, Catrina Mitchell, Karen Taug, Nila Rinehart, Laine Rinehart, Crystal Rogers, Yarrow Vaara, Lily Hope (with child Louis standing, and holding Eleanor), and visionary Clarissa Rizal. ...

Jackson Polys

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Alaska, Artist, Carving, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Tlingit, Visual Arts

Jackson opens opportunity for dialogue to reconsider the meanings and functions of traditional Northwest Coast art forms through his carved sculptures.

Nicholas Galanin

2017 Mentor Artist Fellowship2017, Alaska, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, Mentor Artist Fellowship, Mentoring, Metalworking, Tlingit, Unangax̂, Visual Arts

Nicholas Galanin is an educator, lecturer, and multi-disciplinary artist with an exceptional skill in the metalsmithing and sculptural technique known as chasing and repoussé.

Remembering Clarissa Rizal

Blog2016, Alaska Native, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Weaver Clarissa Rizal, Tlingit T’ak Dein Taan Raven Clan, passed away in December 2016. While we at Native Arts and Cultures Foundation are deeply saddened by the loss of Clarissa, we are honored to have supported her heritage practice, and…

Remembering Teri Rofkar

Blog2016, Alaska Native, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Teri Rofkar. Still from Rasmuson Foundation Teri Rofkar passed away in December 2016. While we are deeply saddened by the loss of this artist, we are honored to have supported her heritage practice, and again reminded of the urgency...

Two NACF Fellows Honored as Master Artists by National Endowment for the Arts

Blog2016, National Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellows, Penobscot, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced on June 30, 2016 awards to nine artists, among them three of Native heritage: NACF 2015 Artist Fellow Clarissa Rizal (Tlingit T’ak Dein…

Preston Singletary

2016 National Artist Fellowship2016, Artist, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Tlingit, Visual Arts, Washington

Glass artist Preston Singletary combines the visual appeal of Tlingit designs with the transformational medium of glass to create intriguing and exquisite sculptural works rooted in his culture.

Clarissa Rizal

2015 National Artist Fellowship2015, Artist, Colorado, Cultural Preservation, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Textile Art, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Clarissa Rizal nurtures her creative vision by incorporating a deeply rooted daily spiritual practice in her traditional Tlingit button blanket robes, Chilkat robes, Ravenstail robes and weavings.

Da-ka-xeen Mehner

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Alaska, Artist, Grantee, N'ishga, National Artist Fellowship, Native Identity, Tlingit, Visual Arts

Embedded in photography and self-portraiture the work of multimedia Installation Artist Da-ka-xeen Mehner includes sculptural elements, sound and video projections.

Israel Shotridge

2014 National Artist Fellowship2014, Artist, Carving, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Tlingit, Traditional Arts, Washington

Israel Shotridge, 2014 NACF Artists Fellowship in Traditional Arts, continues the Tlingit art of cedar carving.

Teri Rofkar

2013 National Artist Fellowship2013, Alaska, Artist, Basketry, Community Engagement, Environmental Stewardship, Grantee, National Artist Fellowship, Textile Art, Tlingit, Traditional Arts

Teri Rofkar is an internationally renowned artist of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska, known for exquisite weaving.

Sealaska Heritage Institute

2011 MOBILIZING THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THE ARTS2011, Alaska, Alaska Native, Arts & Education, Community Engagement, Cultural Preservation, Haida, Native Organization, Program Support, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Youth Engagement

The Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) provides cultural programming for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people of southeast Alaska. SHI develops and implements programming for the preservation and perpetuation of Southeast Alaska’s Native arts and cultures. Primary constituencies are the approximately 22,000 Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian of the region and in the lower 48. While Alaska Natives comprise approximately 15% of Southeast Alaska’s total population, they comprise approximately 20% of the population in the region’s nine larger schools, and average 81% of the population in the region’s eight smallest school districts.

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