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Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a talk next week as part of its spring lecture series featuring Northwest Coast artists.
SHI will kick off the series with Jennifer Younger, an award-winning Tlingit artist based in Sitka.
In her talk, Younger will discuss her navigation through professional Northwest Coast arts practices. She will share motivations, inspirations and goals to provide a framework on why she chose the career pathway of an artist. She will lead her listeners along her journey and highlight key steps taken to become a viable artist, including arts education, training and the supports and planning guides along the way.
Younger is of the Eagle Kaagwaantaan clan. Raised in the Southeast Alaska town of Yakutat, she was surrounded by nature and traditional ways of life. Younger draws inspiration from traditional Tlingit formline designs, historic artifacts, spruce root basket weaving patterns and the contrast and texture of metals.
Younger strives to continuously push the boundaries of her medium. Each piece of jewelry is handmade and assembled by her. Every engraved creation is unique, as she does not use patterns. Freehand design work ensures everyone has their very own one-of-a-kind creation.
The lecture is scheduled for 10:15am, Tuesday, March 11, in Shuká Hít within the Walter Soboleff Building, 105 Heritage Way, in Juneau. The event will be live-streamed and posted on SHI’s YouTube channel.
Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. SHI also conducts scientific and public policy research that promotes Alaska Native arts, cultures, history and education statewide. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, a Native Artist Committee and a Southeast Regional Language Committee.
CONTACT: Kathy Dye, SHI Communications and Publications Deputy Director, 907.321.4636, kathy.dye@sealaska.com.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
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Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a talk next week as part of its spring lecture series featuring Northwest Coast artists.
SHI will kick off the series with Jennifer Younger, an award-winning Tlingit artist based in Sitka.
In her talk, Younger will discuss her navigation through professional Northwest Coast arts practices. She will share motivations, inspirations and goals to provide a framework on why she chose the career pathway of an artist. She will lead her listeners along her journey and highlight key steps taken to become a viable artist, including arts education, training and the supports and planning guides along the way.
Younger is of the Eagle Kaagwaantaan clan. Raised in the Southeast Alaska town of Yakutat, she was surrounded by nature and traditional ways of life. Younger draws inspiration from traditional Tlingit formline designs, historic artifacts, spruce root basket weaving patterns and the contrast and texture of metals.
Younger strives to continuously push the boundaries of her medium. Each piece of jewelry is handmade and assembled by her. Every engraved creation is unique, as she does not use patterns. Freehand design work ensures everyone has their very own one-of-a-kind creation.
The lecture is scheduled for 10:15am, Tuesday, March 11, in Shuká Hít within the Walter Soboleff Building, 105 Heritage Way, in Juneau. The event will be live-streamed and posted on SHI’s YouTube channel.
Sealaska Heritage Institute is a private nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. SHI also conducts scientific and public policy research that promotes Alaska Native arts, cultures, history and education statewide. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, a Native Artist Committee and a Southeast Regional Language Committee.
CONTACT: Kathy Dye, SHI Communications and Publications Deputy Director, 907.321.4636, kathy.dye@sealaska.com.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
facebook.com/SHInstitute
instagram.com/shinstitute
twitter.com/SHInstitute
