Saturday, June 10, 9-11 am, APK (outdoors)

Learn how natural dyes blend art and science, and create your own dyed yarn with Tlingit weaver Lily Hope.

Lily is an artist, teacher, and community facilitator who specializes in Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving and has taught natural dye techniques, spinning, and weaving both locally and internationally. Recommended for youth ages 8 and up. Request a spot by filling out the participation form.

^{This program is partially funded by the citizens of the City and Borough of Juneau through sales tax revenues and is sponsored by the Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum.}

Friday, June 23, 11 am-3 pm
Outdoors (weather permitting)

Bring the whole family for an afternoon of activities at the APK!

No registration is required and families may drop in any time.

^{This program is partially funded by the citizens of the City and Borough of Juneau through sales tax revenues and is sponsored by the Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum.}

Alaska State Museum
through October 2023

Three interrelated exhibitions co-curated by artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs explore contemporary and historical Alaska Native issues and spotlight gut as a conduit for Indigenous voices.

Visceral: Verity, a new exhibition of work by contemporary artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs, includes mixed-media installations that combine natural and synthetic materials and evoke questions of authentic experience, truth, abuse, transparency, and credibility. Kelliher-Combs is one of only a few artists working with marine mammal gut. She brings to her art the richness of her experience growing up in Nome, her career as an internationally recognized artist, her life in Anchorage, and her insights as a person of Iñupiaq, Athabascan, and European heritage.

Visceral: Legacy expands Kelliher-Combs’s solo exhibition themes through a selection of objects from the museum’s permanent collection.

Visceral: Identity features gut parkas from across Alaska to highlight technical and historical aspects of this remarkable material in cross-cultural perspective.

Fridays, noon-1 pm, online

Story hours for kids are great but why should they get all the fun?

Currently reading Good Company: a Mining Family in Fairbanks, Alaska

From the book jacket: Good Company is a vivid and compelling story of life in early twentieth-century Alaska. During the lean years of the depression through World War II and Vietnam, Sarah Isto's family made a home in "company housing" in the small mining town of Fairbanks. With a wry sense of humor and an eye for detail, Isto tells of the courtship and marriage of her parents and her own Fairbanks childhood, weaving rich descriptions of daily life and northern living into her story. Good Company celebrates the joys and challenges of family life on the Alaska frontier.