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November is Alaska Native Heritage Month

November is Alaska Native Heritage Month, and we are happy to be partners in this month-long series of events.

On Friday, November 6 the ANAF Gallery will be home to one of the heritage month exhibits, called "Sharing the Spirit." The group exhibition artists include; Aakatchaq Schaeffer, Ross Schaeffer, Francine Chikla, Holly Nordlum, Gretchen Sagan and others.

Opening reception November 6th at 5:30pm.

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Blogs Entries

	November is Alaska Native Heritage Month (Nov 01, 2009)

	Alaska Native Visionary Awards Deadline October 31 (Oct 28, 2009)

	Try out for a movie? Director Andrew MacLean is casting! (Oct 20, 2009)

	AFN Convention week has begun! (Oct 19, 2009)

	Wheel of Fortune winner visits ANAF gallery (and falls in love) (Oct 16, 2009)

	A little something about ANAF and our good friends at AMEP... (Oct 14, 2009)

	Alaska Native arts and artists in the news (Oct 05, 2009)

	Family Day schedule of events (Oct 03, 2009)

	CAPS Deadline extended to October 31! (Oct 01, 2009)

	America's First Lady, Michelle Obama, on art (Sep 29, 2009)

	It's getting hectic, it's getting crazy :: Alaska events are HAPPENING! (Sep 27, 2009)

	On the road again - ANAF at weekend Alaska arts conferences (Sep 18, 2009)

	Thank you + Announcing Dry Ice and Family Day at Princeton (Sep 16, 2009)

	See you @ Twestival Anchorage - TONIGHT! (Sep 15, 2009)

	Get your party clothes on...Anchorage Twestival @ 7pm on 9/15 (Sep 14, 2009)

	Two days to Twestival! (Sep 13, 2009)

	New Facebook page - come become a fan! (Sep 11, 2009)

	Last days of The Search for Nuchalawoyya + Photography exhibit opening First Friday, 9/4 (Aug 30, 2009)

	Keeping up with Anchorage Twestival and BUSY ANAF! (Aug 26, 2009)

	Whee! Anchorage Twestival - A Passion for Art announcement and tickets. (Aug 21, 2009)

	Anchorage Twestival to support ANAF! (Aug 18, 2009)

	First Alaskans Magazine features on ANAF board members Susie Bevins Ericsen and Alice Rogoff + Nicholas Galanin show in Denver (Aug 15, 2009)

	Thanks for joining us for First Friday! And see you at SWAIA Indian Market? (Aug 12, 2009)

	First Friday reception tonight! (Aug 07, 2009)

	ADN story about Erica Lord and The Search for Nuchalawoyya: Resistance and Reconciliation (Aug 03, 2009)

	Ok...speaking of baskets - a baleen basket on CSI: NY? No way!! Yes way!! (Jul 24, 2009)

	Weaving of Life exhibit photo + Maria Williams and Alaska Native Reader on Native America Calling (Jul 24, 2009)

	Weaving of Life opening today! Right now! Plus one more artist biography - Emma Hildebrand (Jul 21, 2009)

	Weaving of Life artists Victor Tumulak, Diane Douglas-Willard, Delores Churchill and Margie Sparks (Jul 20, 2009)

	Weaving of Life artists Coral Chertoff and Sharon Kay (Jul 20, 2009)

	Weaving of Life artists James Omnik, Sr. and June (Simeonoff) Pardue (Jul 20, 2009)

	Weaving of Life exhibit and artists + weaver article + old tales (Jul 20, 2009)

	Photos photos photographer! (Jul 14, 2009)

	"Weaving with wood" - An article about Daisy Demientieff (Jul 05, 2009)

	First Friday thanks and Happy 4th of July (Jul 04, 2009)

	Eiteljorg + Lind family in the news + Upcoming shows (Jun 28, 2009)

	The ice went out. Photos from spring in Kotzebue. (Jun 16, 2009)

	Daisy Demientieff DVD available online in ANAF shop + KSKA radio piece and links (Jun 08, 2009)

	First Friday reception and second premiere of "Beautiful Journey" (Jun 05, 2009)

	A good word + Daisy Demientieff movie premiere + Yup'ik choreographer recognized +... (Jun 03, 2009)

	Congratulations Teri Rofkar! + World premiere of A Beautiful Journey. (May 21, 2009)

	Wish lists! + Spring photos, Big event at Alaska House, New York, and more... (May 11, 2009)

	ANAF on Facebook + a bunch of interesting news. (Apr 28, 2009)

	Killerwhales, potatoes, foxglove and "gawk gawk" (Apr 12, 2009)

	Our board members rock and roll! (Apr 09, 2009)

	Famous Yup'ik blogger on "Art and the Land," Phillip Charette rocks SWAIA fellowship, good hair (Mar 25, 2009)

	Blowin' up the spot :: Mt. Redoubt, Cama'i 2009, Tlingit Clan Conference and Fairbanks Art Expo (Mar 23, 2009)

	Fine feathered friends - molten hot (Mar 17, 2009)

	Iditarod and not so (Mar 06, 2009)

	Haida Dorothy Grant @ New York Fashion Week! (Mar 04, 2009)

	Alaska village life makes it to CNN (Feb 12, 2009)

	A window into life in rural Alaska (Feb 05, 2009)

	AK Art and Culture Conference :: Emeritus board member in NYT (Jan 29, 2009)

	Hot deals in cool times (Jan 22, 2009)

	ARTIST OPPORTUNITY :: Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Awards (Jan 13, 2009)

	Busy, busy! Holiday shipping information and neat Alaska news from all around (Dec 15, 2008)

	Announcing...Fall 2008 CAPS Grantees! And, you know, our December exhibit. (Dec 03, 2008)

	BIG congratulations to Andrew Okpeaha MacLean and Alvin Aningayou (Nov 17, 2008)

	Storytelling :: A young filmmaker, StoryCorps in AK, Dr. Soboleff himself, a Wassilie wins, Larry McNeil previews NYC show (Oct 28, 2008)

	Indigenous Alaskan arts and artists in the news :: Helen Simeonoff and the Sugpiaq masks + photographers (Oct 14, 2008)

	Akiachak in the New York Times + Native language information and links (Oct 06, 2008)

	Governor Sarah Palin wears wonderful Alaska Native jewelry! You can too! (Sep 26, 2008)

	"My First Body of Art" opening reception photos + AHNY + News articles (Sep 14, 2008)

	Opening tomorrow, 9/6 :: Spring Pungowiyi's show, "My First Body of Art" (Sep 04, 2008)

	@ the ANAF Gallery - one show closes, another will open AND Fashion for Fall (Aug 24, 2008)

	Review of Sonya Kelliher-Combs' show "Walrus Family Portraits" (Aug 18, 2008)

	Artist Outreach in Togiak - photos! (Aug 12, 2008)

	ADN reviews Aakatchaq's show at the ANAF Gallery (Jul 22, 2008)

	WEIO kicked off in Fairbanks! Plus Eiteljorg Fellowship information posted. (Jul 17, 2008)

	Gallery :: Aakatchaq July-August/2008, opening Friday, July 4 (Jul 01, 2008)

	Aakatchaq in the ANAF Gallery and ANAF at Eiteljorg (Jun 25, 2008)

	June First Friday - More Mehner! (Jun 06, 2008)

	No wonder. (May 16, 2008)

	Rasmuson Awards, "Weapons of Mass Defense," Andrew Paukan, Mekoryuk (May 12, 2008)

	ANAF (and more!) in the news (May 06, 2008)

	Monday, Monday \|\| Phillip Owens, Da-ka-xeen Mehner, Celebration 2008 (May 05, 2008)

	Da-ka-xeen Mehner and "Weapons of Mass Defense" First Friday, May 2 (May 01, 2008)

	"Weapons of Mass Defense" - opening this Friday in our Anchorage gallery (Apr 29, 2008)

	The athletic arts (Apr 25, 2008)

	What got caught in my net (Apr 17, 2008)

	Brought to you by the letter "T" (Apr 10, 2008)

	Totally NOT funny (Apr 03, 2008)

	Fun and Games (Apr 02, 2008)

	Get over here! (a.k.a. another exhortation to see "New Work" by Sonya Kelliher-Combs) (Mar 15, 2008)

	ANAF Executive Director Carrie Irwin Brown on APRN's AK show! (Feb 29, 2008)

	Catch it while you can! (and how to make sure you do...) (Feb 27, 2008)

	On qayaqs and indigenous genius (Feb 15, 2008)

	True blue from artists to you (Feb 11, 2008)

	Saying goodbye (Jan 24, 2008)

	Photo album of "Alutiiq Creations" exhibit up (Jan 24, 2008)

	First Friday reception for "Alutiiq Creations - Making Up For Lost Time" exhibit (Jan 04, 2008)

	And now back to our regularly scheduled programming (Jan 01, 2008)