ART RESOURCES

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Opportunities

• Juried Art Show and Competition
• Juried Youth Art Exhibit
• Artist-in-Residence Program
• Workshops
• Sharing Our Box of Treasurers
• Haa Latseen Community Project
• Art Markets
• First Fridays
• Northwest Coast Native Artist Database
• Volunteer
• Other
  • Alaska State Council on the Arts
  • Rasmuson Foundation

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Northwest Coast Formline Design Art Kit

• Textbook (To order hardcopy, contact the Sealaska Heritage Store at thestore@sealaska.com or 907.586.9114)

• Flash cards

• Curriculum boards

• Support Materials:

  • Formline by Steve Brown: Day 1

  • Formline by Steve Brown: Day 2

  • Shuká Hít House Front Presentation by David A. Boxley and David R. Boxley

  • Northwest Coast Indian Art by Bill Holm

  • Other SHI Curricula

  • Juneau School District Art Kits

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How-To Books

• Tlingit Wood Carving: How to Carve a Tlingit Mask

• Tlingit Wood Carving: How to Carve a Tlingit Hat

• Tlingit Wood Carving: How to Carve a Tlingit Tray

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Instructional Videos

SHI videos are posted online on our YouTube channel (here) and on our Vimeo page (here).

• How to digitize formline: Ovoid construction with David R. Boxley using Adobe Illustrator.

• Spruce-root weaving: This how-to video series shows spruce root weaving in practice, from harvesting the roots to weaving and finishing the basket, as well as some time talking with Delores Churchill, a master Haida weaver. This series was created to help revive the endangered art form of spruce root weaving and features several apprentices. The video documentation was gifted to SHI by Linblad Expeditions as a way to give back to the cultures that their clients (tourists) are exposed to. 

• Delores Churchill on a basket she donated to SHI

• Weavers Present: The Revival of Northwest Coast Textiles

• Horn spoon carving: These instructional videos on how to make horn spoons were created in an effort to save this endangered Northwest Coast art practice. Horn spoon instructor Steve Brown narrates the videos. 

• The making of a traditional, dugout canoe in Sitka, Alaska

• 3-D scan of a dugout canoe

• Formline by Steve Brown: Day 1

• Formline by Steve Brown: Day 2

• Formline: An Evolving Art by Bill Holm

• How to draw an ovoid

• How to draw a salmon-trout head

• How to stretch a sea otter hide

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Lecture Videos

SHI videos are posted online on our YouTube channel (here) and on our Vimeo page (here).

• Documenting Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian jewelers, 1850-present
• Indigenous Issues in Native Handicrafts and Intellectual Property (part 1)
• The Fertile Environment for Legal Protections of Native Alaskan Handicraft Heritage (part 2)
• Discovering Haida Art: A Personal Journey by Robert Davidson
• Northwest Coast Art Into the Future, a panel discussion
• Art of our Ancestors: Kodiak Island by Perry Eaton
• The Antiquity and Evolution of Northwest Coast Art by Steve Brown
• The Revival of Tsimshian Art by David A. Boxley
  Formline: An Evolving Art by Bill Holm
• Three Hundred Years of Tlingit Art by Aldona Jonaitis
• Basketry and Alaska Native Art Revival by Delores Churchill
• On the Origins and Diversity of Northern Northwest Coast Headgear by Steve Henrikson
• Tlingit Carver Amos Wallace
• Hoonah Weaving Program
• Southeast Alaska Totem Parks by Emily Moore
• Being Successful is no Accident: The Business of Art by Robert Davidson
• Tlingit Wood Carving Book Series 

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Art Supplies

• Artificial sinew

• ​Beaver fur, drum making kits, and more

• ​Copper, silver, and jewelry products

• Moose and deer leather

• Real sinew

• Red cedar bark

• Regalia kits

• Robe weaving kits

• Robe weaving materials

• Wood carving tools

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Research

• SHI Vitality of Northwest Coast Arts Survey

• SHI Survey on Alaska Native Art and Artists

• Q & A with Rosita Worl: When is it okay to use Northwest Coast formline designs and crests?

Legal Information

• Migratory Bird Policy: How it Affects American Indians and Alaska Natives (PDF)
• A Customs Guide to Alaska Native Arts: What International Travelers, Shop Owners and Artisans Need to Know
• Silver Hand Program and Permit Application
• Certified Tribal Artist Certification Application (Brochure)
• News story on federal and state ivory bans