Meet Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval
Meet Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval
 Director Jill Sprecher on Clockwatchers
Director Jill Sprecher on Clockwatchers
 Studio Visits: Richard Haines
Studio Visits: Richard Haines
 Studio Visits: Ping Zhu
Studio Visits: Ping Zhu
 Studio Visits: Riccardo Vecchio
Studio Visits: Riccardo Vecchio
 Art-House America at Alaska’s Gold Town Nickelodeon
Art-House America at Alaska’s Gold Town Nickelodeon
 Art-House America: The Roxy Theater
Art-House America: The Roxy Theater
 Hunting caribou by bike off Alaska's Denali Highway
Hunting caribou by bike off Alaska's Denali Highway
 Byron Nicholai of I Sing, You Dance
Byron Nicholai of I Sing, You Dance
 31st Athabascan Fiddle Festival, old-time music and a sober good time
31st Athabascan Fiddle Festival, old-time music and a sober good time
 Family ties: adapting to the land at Graveyard Point
Family ties: adapting to the land at Graveyard Point
 Jim Power and the Mosaic Trail
Jim Power and the Mosaic Trail
 Handmade Portraits: The Bone Carver
Handmade Portraits: The Bone Carver
Meet Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval
Director Jill Sprecher on Clockwatchers
Studio Visits: Richard Haines
Studio Visits: Ping Zhu
Studio Visits: Riccardo Vecchio
Art-House America at Alaska’s Gold Town Nickelodeon
Art-House America: The Roxy Theater
Hunting caribou by bike off Alaska's Denali HighwayPunk anarchists, subsistence caribou hunting and bikepacking may seem like an unlikely combination, but as Birch Block, one of the founders of Anchorage’s Off The Chain Bicycle Collective says, “We’re not your typical hunting party.”Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1Pqgb3E
Byron Nicholai of I Sing, You DanceByron Nicholai never thought he'd be anything more than a regular teenager from a remote Alaska village. But when his Facebook page "I Sing, You Dance" began to take off, he suddenly found himself a celebrity and role model for Alaska Native youth.Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1Rh02hu
31st Athabascan Fiddle Festival, old-time music and a sober good timeThe Athabascan Fiddle Festival in Fairbanks had its first show 31 years ago, in 1983. Since then the festival has grown, and seen changes in the music, but is still thriving. The event is inter-generational, and it is not uncommon to see an elder and dancing with a young teenager. The dance feels like a throwback to the Gold Rush days, when such gatherings really started going gangbusters.The popular dances back then were reels and jigs, but over the years other dances entered the mix: Jitterbug, swing, two-step, waltz and foxtrot. But the old days are not lost. Today's dances feature a jigging competition, in which dancers sport their best beaded mukluks and moosehide regalia, and dance an Irish-inspired jig that a someone from the 19th century would recognize.Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch. j.mp/akdsptchfiddlefest
Family ties: adapting to the land at Graveyard PointIt's at Graveyard Point -- where there are rusted canning vessels, broken boardwalks and literal human skulls poking out of the ground -- that a group of fishermen are helping to change what it means to catch fish in Bristol Bay.Read the full article on Alaska Dispatch News: http://j.mp/1dWxObZ
Jim Power and the Mosaic TrailFor over thirty years, Jim Power a.k.a. Mosaic Man (mosaicmannyc.etsy.com) has been transforming the Lower East Side of Manhattan with mosaics, one lamppost at a time.Read the Etsy blog post: etsy.me/mosaicmanetsy.
Handmade Portraits: The Bone CarverSylvester Ayek (sylvesterayek.etsy.com) continues to uphold the traditions of his Iñupiat elders: hunting, foraging, and the craft of carving walrus ivory and wood.Read the Etsy blog post: etsy.me/thebonecarver.
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