The arts

THE ARTS

Dance Since 1990
• Member, Northwest Inupiat Dancers. Public performance for the NANA Regional Corporation’s informal shareholder’s meeting at SeaTac, WA. Advisor on cultural resource protection/intellectual property of traditional dances/songs in the film industry.
• Teaching of Round Dance to non-natives at meetings, weddings, gatherings
• Judge at pow-wows of Shawl/Fancy and Women’s Traditional dancing

Storytelling and Inupiaq Drumming 2008
• Inupiaq storyteller and drumming. Multicultural Cultural Fair, La Venture Middle School, Mount Vernon, WA

Singing Since 1991
• Member of Skagit Valley Singers. Coastal plateau traditional family round drum. Performances at Indian naming, memorials, funerals and social pow-wows

Visual Artist Since 1975
• Current student of John Simon
• Inupiaq mask maker
• Mediums of watercolor, conté and mixed media

Business Management Since 1989
• Business Manager, K. Paul Carvings. Sales, contracts, community outreach and coordination of art shows and art donations

Policy Since 2006
• Board of Director, Longhouse Media. Specific tasks include drafting or reviewing Conflict of Interest Policy, Request for Proposal, Strategic Plan, Evaluation of Directors and Board of Directors; Public Speaking

Sponsor 2004
• Sponsored Holly Graham as an artist-in-residence, Wa He Lut Indian School, Frank’s Landing. Residence included creating masks and personal legends in writing.

Family DNA from my mother's side of the family

Pacific Northwest

Although raised in the Interior of Alaska (now called Central Alaska), I have lived many years in the Pacific Northwest. Acclimated to the wet, blustery winters.