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SEALASKA HERITAGE PUBLISHES BIOGRAPHY ON PROLIFIC CHILKAT WEAVER Book offers first profile of the Klukwan artist July 5, 2022 (Get the Book) (About Chilkat Weaving) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published the first-ever biography of the prolific Klukwan artist Clara Newman Benson (Deinḵul.át), who lived from 1856 to 1935 and was a significant Chilkat weaver [...]

SEALASKA HERITAGE AND CITY MUSEUM TO HOST LECTURE ON JUNEAU "FOUR STORY POLE" Free event to be offered virtually, in-person July 5, 2022 (Flyer)  Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI), in partnership with the Juneau-Douglas City Museum (JDCM), will co-sponsor a lecture by Native art scholar Dr. Emily Moore next week on a shaman totem pole in [...]

SHI TO BRING MARC BROWN & THE BLUES CREW TO NEW ARTS CAMPUS PLAZA FOR JULY 4TH WEEKEND Public invited to free inaugural performance at the campus, SHI to livestream June 28, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has hired noted Fairbanks musicians Marc Brown & The Blues Crew to play at its newly-opened arts campus [...]

SEALASKA HERITAGE DIGITIZES, POSTS CELEBRATION 1990 Video series shows fifth Celebration, more years to follow June 24, 2022 (Watch) (About Celebration)  Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has digitized and posted online video of Celebration 1990. Celebration is a dance-and-culture festival first held in 1982 that has grown into the world’s largest gathering of the Tlingit, Haida [...]

SHI TRUSTEES NAME LEAD DANCE GROUP FOR CELEBRATION 2024 Group hails from Whitehorse, Canada June 23, 2022 The Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) Board of Trustees has named Dakhká Khwáan Dancers (People of the Inland) as the lead dance group for Celebration 2024. Dakhká Khwáan Dancers, a Tlingit group based in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, will lead [...]

NATIVE FOOD CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED June 9, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has announced the winners of its popular traditional food contests, held as part of Celebration 2022. The winners are as follows: Back Seaweed Contest Mike Allard, first place Theresa Wellington, second place Christina Weber, third place Dry Fish Donna James, first place Kenneth [...]

SEALASKA HERITAGE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2022 JURIED ART COMPETITION, YOUTH ART EXHIBIT June 8, 2022 (Juried Art Show and Competition Catalog) Thirteen artists have taken top prizes and one honorable mention at Sealaska Heritage Institute’s eleventh biennial Juried Art Show and Competition, and three young artists also placed in SHI’s fourth biennial Juried Youth Art [...]

CELEBRATION 2022 TO KICK OFF NEXT WEEK Event to be broadcast, streamed live June 1, 2022 (Schedule of Events) (Venue Map and Admission Rates) (Tickets) (Flyer) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will kick off its biennial Celebration next week, marking the 40th year since the inception of the popular dance-and-culture festival. Celebration is a major, four-day [...]

SHI TO HOLD GRAND OPENING FOR SEALASKA HERITAGE ARTS CAMPUS Facility to officially open during Celebration in JuneMay 16, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will hold a grand opening for the Sealaska Heritage Arts Campus in June during its biennial dance-and-culture festival, Celebration. The opening will include the unveiling of the new Sealaska Cultural Values Totem [...]