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Our goal is to promote and support Alaska Native arts and artists! We buy directly, give grants for indigenous arts education, and work to increase awareness of Alaska Native arts and cultures.

Hand to hand, eye to eye

Strength and fortitude. Shoulder against shield. Solid in hand, a weapon to wield.
Whether inner battles, outer struggles, daily hunts, or surprise attacks,
Native Jedis have long been striking back.
Artists carry on making blades for usual use, dolls with a full complement of gear and other working or display pieces of traditional hunting and fighting tools and scenes. Honoring Da-ka-xeen Mehner, teacher and artist, we celebrate and feature indigenous intrepidity, ingenuity, and invention.

The Alaska Native Arts Foundation’s online shop and bricks-and-mortar gallery feature the work of the over 900 Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Inupiat, Yup’ik, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Cup’ik, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, "Eskimo," and "Indian" artists the Alaska Native Arts Foundation has worked with.

Truly functional and an excellent example of the "make it beautiful" idea of "art" in Native Alaskan cultures. Take an item you need. Make it better.

This needlecase is an ivory carving of a seal shaman. He has a man

This is a painting of an Inupiaq Eskimo in a kayak throwing a harpoon.

This ivory carving has an awl decorated with designs of blue and green paint. Connecting the awl to an ivory fish are ivory chain links. The chain links and the fish are also decorated with designs of blue and green paint.

Aged whalebone hunter with baleen and ivory inlay, polar bear tufting holding a spear with sinew.

We live, surrounded by space, and by things with shape, mass, volume. We carve our own forms into the air around us, pressing it away with our skin. As three-dimensional beings, sculptural artists define and express inner landscapes, visions, thoughts through materials with thickness, heft, and dimension.

Stone. Ivory. Wood. Bronze. Bone. Alaska Native sculptors impress the images of their minds onto, into these deep, rich materials. As skins became qayaqs, wood became hunting helmets, rye grass became baskets, hubcaps became sculptures; the resources of people

An ivory carver, a skin sewer, a sculptor, and a painter - The DVD "When the Season is Good" depicts the lives and art of four contemporary Alaska Native artists from the Bering Sea and Alaskan Arctic. Through their personal stories, the film explores the juncture of art, culture, economics and survival in some of the most remote places in the world, where long-held cultural traditions and lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and gathering exist alongside everyday modern life.

Subsequent films in this series will focus on indigenous artists from other regions of Alaska.

(2005, 65 minutes)

Pocket knife with an ivory handle and gold bead.

Wooden walrus mask with real walrus whiskers and ivory tusks; surrounded by two ulus with ivory handles, two ivory arrowheads, and two steel knives with ivory handles being supported by brass covered steel pegs.

We live, surrounded by space, and by things with shape, mass, volume. We carve our own forms into the air around us, pressing it away with our skin. As three-dimensional beings, sculptural artists define and express inner landscapes, visions, thoughts through materials with thickness, heft, and dimension.

Stone. Ivory. Wood. Bronze. Bone. Alaska Native sculptors impress the images of their minds onto, into these deep, rich materials. As skins became qayaqs, wood became hunting helmets, rye grass became baskets, hubcaps became sculptures; the resources of people

This is a half size Aleut paddle carved from wood. It is painted primarily brown and black with red and white accents. Perfect for the mantle or the wall.

Truly a maritime people, the Aleut long-ago engineered what

Knife with antler and ivory handle. Leather sheath has polar bear fur.

Visit Our Gallery

In town? Come visit our gallery located in downtown Anchorage at 500 W. 6th Avenue.
Current Exhibit:
"Weapons of Mass Defense" by Da-ka-xeen Mehner. First Friday 5:30-8pm.

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	Did you know...
	Qiviut is wool from the Alaskan musk ox
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Phone: 907.258.ANAF (2623) Email: info@alaskanativearts.org

Visit our Gallery: 500 West 6th Avenue :: Anchorage, Alaska

Gallery Hours: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM