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Since 1980, Sealaska Heritage Institute has beena steward of our past and a catalyst for our future.LEARN MOREShop Juneau's best collection of Native-and animal-themed gifts and souvenirs.Learn more New Arts Campus SHI kicks off campaign (Website) (Brochure) (Donate) (Construction Begins!) SHI has officially launched its fundraising campaign to build a Native arts campus at Heritage Square, kicking off what will become a preeminent cultural space in downtown Juneau.The Sealaska Heritage Arts Campus is phase two of SHI’s vision to make Juneau the Northwest Coast arts capital of the world and to designate NWC art a national treasure. By Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine — When it comes to art capitals, Rome, New York, Paris and Berlin are a few of the global hot spots that come to mind. However, if the city of Juneau, Alaska, has any say in the matter, it could very well earn a coveted spot on the list. SHIhas published four new books through its award-winning Baby Raven Reads program, including an original Raven story written by children and three books that teach the Lingít and Sm’algya̱x languages.The release includesRaven and the Hidden Halibut, an origin story based on traditional oral narratives. In the story,Halibut invites Raven to a game of hide and seek, and Raven is surprised how well Halibut, a bright white fish, can hide. Two artists participating in Sealaska Heritage's spruce-root mentorship program have discovered what is thought to be an old weaving technique that was lost to time.Haida master weaver Delores Churchill and her apprentice, Tlingit and Haida artist Debbie Aanutein Head, made the find while studying an old spruce-root hat housed at the Alaska State Museum. SHI and the University of Alaska Southeast are offering scholarships for language and culture classes at UAS.Application is only for scholarship funding; student must register for UAS course independently. Offered through the Preparing Indigenous Teachers and Administrators for Alaska Schools (PITAAS).Application deadline: Jan. 15, 2021 SHI is accepting applications for Sealaska scholarships for the 2021-2022 scholar year. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2021. However, SHI is offering a $50 incentive to those who complete their scholarship application on or before Feb. 1 and who are accepted as scholarship recipients...(more) SHI has sent 1,300 learning kits to middle school students in six communities enrolled in its Opening the Box: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) education program. The boxes, known as “Maker Kits,” were delivered to middle schools in Angoon, Sitka, Hoonah, Wrangell, Klawock and Juneau. SHI is accepting applications for its community language sessions, which will begin in February 2021. These Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian sessions will be offered virtually and open to learners at all language levels. Offered through a partnership between Sealaska Heritage and the University of Alaska Southeast. SHI has unveiled its first-ever virtual 3-D exhibitin an effort to open the space to people worldwide during the pandemic.The site offers visitors a free tour of SHI’s exhibitWar and Peace, which closed in April due to the pandemic and was reinvented as a virtual platform for the first Friday of December...(more) SHI is offering fall 2021 scholarships to undergraduate or graduate students who are pursuing arts and science degrees with a focus in Northwest Coast arts, studio arts, performing arts, cinematic arts and technology, or creative writing; or a degree with a concentration in museum studies. Deadline: Dec. 15. SHIhas released a video series that teaches how to prepare materials to make Chilkat and Ravenstail robes in an effort to support artists and spark a cottage industry, especially in rural areas.The six-part series, which features the noted weaver Lily Hope, gives step-by-step tutorials on how to boil bark, prepare wool, thigh-spin warp and dye weft with copper, hemlock bark and moss. The U.S. Postal Service has tapped a Tlingit artist based in Juneau to create a Northwest Coast art stamp for distribution in 2021.The design of the stamp, titled “Raven Story” by Rico Lanáat’ Worl, was unveiled this week by the Postal Service as part of its Forever Stamps series.SHI is working with the agency to hold a release ceremony next year. A virtual memorial ceremony has been scheduled for Shangukeidí (Thunderbird) Clan Leader David Katzeek, who Walked Into the Forest on Oct. 28 at the age of 77.The event marks the first time a traditional memorial ceremony will be held virtually in order to keep the clan leaders, family members and well-wishers safe during the pandemic.(Watch Ceremony) (Memorial Website) The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has pledged $400,000 toward construction of the Sealaska Heritage Arts Campus, currently being built in Juneau by SHI.The donation, which will be given only when the institute raises the remaining balance needed to finish construction, would put SHI a step closer to its fundraising goal of $13 million. The institute still needs to raise about $2 million. SHI will sponsor a free online lecture series on Northwest Coast art featuringartists David R. Boxley, Lily Hope, Nicholas Galanin, Melissa Shaginoff and Joel Isaak, Preston Singletary, Crystal and Rico Worl and Alison Bremner, scholar Christopher Green and former president and CEO of the Peabody Dan Monroe. SHI will sponsor the following lectures and special eventin honor of Native American Heritage Month and Walter Soboleff Day.All lectures will be live streamed on SHI’s YouTube channel at noon. The series, which focuses on citizens and shareholders in Alaska Native corporations and tribes, is also offered as part of a one-credit course through the University of Alaska Southeast. SHI is offering a free, online class for people who want to give back to their community by becoming a coach for Native Youth Olympics.No experience needed! For more info, contact NYO Coach Kyle Worl at kyle.worl@gmail.com or 907.227.4998. (Flyer) Sealaska Heritage and Hoonah Indian Association are collaborating on a study exploring the potential biological impact of historical trauma in Alaska Native Peoples and how participation in cultural events may mediate this potential impact.Researchers planned to return to Juneau and Hoonah this year to discuss preliminary results and next steps. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers will be postponing their visit for a year. A Washington State man has donated an old Frog button blanket to Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) that is thought to date to the late nineteenth century.The blanket was owned by the late Ethel Kiley, who was born in Klukwan and may have been a Tlingit Raven of the Gaanaxteidí clan, which uses a Frog crest. SHI'sBaby Raven Reads program is one of five recipients in the state chosen for the 2020 Contributions to Literacy in Alaska award given by the Alaska Center for the Book.The center, which is affiliated with the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book, gaveBaby Raven Reads its Sue Sherif Literacy Award for excellence in early childhood literacy. Sealaska Heritage has received a federal grant to expand itsaward-winningBaby Raven Reads program to five additional communities in Southeast Alaska.The grant, awarded by the Alaska Native Education Program, will allow SHI to offer the early-literacy program to Alaska Native families with children ages 5 or younger in Kake, Klukwan, Haines, Metlakatla and Ketchikan. SHI is seeking a culture and history director, a finance associate,an education project manager, a STEAM project coordinator, Baby Raven Reads community liaisons, and an art administrative assistant to provide support on art projects. SHI will sponsor a free weekly lecture series in September to acquaint the public with culturally-responsive education in Southeast Alaska and delve into the educational system as perceived through the Native world view.The goal is to unveil the educational inequity and social injustices that have long been a part of the educational system and history in Alaska. (Lectures) SHIhas won a federal grant to process and make available a large archives left by the late scholars Richard Xwaayeenák̲ and Nora Ḵeixwnéi Dauenhauer, who played a critical role in documenting Tlingit oral traditions and producing the Tlingit language materials students use today. The $150,000 grant will allow SHI to process the entire Dauenhauer Literary Estate.Juneau, Alaska 99801Phone: (907) 463-4844Email: Heritage@Sealaska.com

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