Alumni
Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site
2019
Hannah Perrine Mode | Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram | Sara Tabbert
2018
Josh Winkler | Kristin Link | Hilary Lorenz
2017
Anthony Wallace | Cameron Quevedo | Virginia Mitford
2016
Dan Hudson | Julie Zhu | Andrea Nelson
2015
Kevin Curry | Heather Callaghan | Michelle Latimer
2014
Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas | Steve Snell | Daphne Mennell
2013
Cassandra Loomis | Nicole Bauberger | Kara Sievewright
2012
Jay White | Corrie Francis Parks
2011
2019
Hannah Perrine Mode
Hannah is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland California. Through her work she helps people gain a more empathic and intimate understanding of climate science, geologic forces, and human geography. She has studied the relationship between people and place while living on fault lines around the world, and can usually be found making (mostly blue) art in the Bay Area and Southeast Alaska.
Hannah works with the Juneau Icefield Research Program to implement visual art as a tool for interdisciplinary learning and science communication. She was the Icefield Research Program Artist-in-Residence in 2017. She will be continuing this work as part of a larger Polar Art + Science initiative in 2018 and 2019, partnering with a number of organizations and participating in residencies in Alaska, Svalbard, Patagonia and Iceland.
In the Bay Area, Hannah organizes community storytelling projects and works as a freelance designer and illustrator. She has a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College and an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College. Her work has been shown at venues throughout the United States in California, Boston, MA, Brooklyn, NY, and Juneau, AK.
www.hannahpmode.com
www.instagram.com/hannahpmode
www.vimeo.com/hannahpmode
Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram
Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram ('Brent') works on the cusp of public art and environmental design. Much of his work embodies conversations touching on traditional indigenous knowledge, modern science, and contemporary practices working towards sustainability and social reconciliation. Living and working on Salt Spring Island, north of Victoria BC, he often explores his Métis heritage rooted in northern British Columbia, such as work with willow, and the aesthetics of the local Salish community in which he grew up. Brent's indoor and outdoor installations, combine photographs, drawings, text, and video, and have been exhibited in British Columbia, Canada, and internationally.
www.gordonbrentingram.ca/
Facebook: Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram
Sara Tabbert
Sara Tabbert is a printmaker and mixed media artist from Fairbanks, Alaska. She returned to her hometown in 2000 after college and graduate school in the Midwest US. Since 2010 she has been a full-time artist. All her work is tied to the material of wood. She carves and prints wood blocks on paper, or the carved pieces become the art itself. In addition to smaller work, Tabbert’s large scale commissions can be found on display in public buildings throughout Alaska.
Sara’s projects have been supported by grants from the Rasmuson Foundation and the Alaska State Council on the Arts. In addition to residencies in: the US, Canada, Argentina, and Italy, she has been a summer and winter artist in residence through the National Park Service in Denali, as well as Zion and Isle Royale National Parks.
Sharing art with young people is one of her priorities and she has worked actively over the past ten years as a teaching artist with schools from the Seward Peninsula to the end of the Aleutians. Her work will be exhibited in 2018 in a solo show at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau.
2018
Josh Winkler
Josh Winkler from Mankato, Minnesota, works primarily with traditional and contemporary print media. Since receiving his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2010, he has been creating works on paper, running a small gallery, building a stone cabin, and exhibiting work nationally and internationally. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Minnesota State University – Mankato, Minnesota.
Kristin Link
Kristin Link from Glennallen, Alaska, has been working as an artist in Alaska since she received a graduate certificate in Science Illustration from California State University Monterey Bay in 2010. Her ambition is to create images that explain and inspire people about their natural surroundings. Her work may be found on interpretive signs, in books about national parks, and in museums. She has exhibited her illustrations and field sketches at the Alaska State Museum and received grants from the Rasmuson Foundation and the Alaska State Council on the Arts. She calls the wilderness of the Wrangell-St. Elias her home.
Hilary Lorenz
Hilary Lorenz from Brooklyn, New York, focuses on visually translating the visceral experience of urban and rural landscapes into linoleum block prints, drawings, and room- size installations. Her solo exhibitions include Birding, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY (2016), Lean-to-Me, Lake George Courthouse Gallery, NY (2015), Nomadic Geography, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (2014); Lorenz was an artist-in-residence at LMCC Governors Island, NY, (2016), National Seashore C-Scape Residency, Cape Cod, MA (2008, 2016); Outpost Studio, KS, (2014) and ARTSTasmania, Tasmania, Australia (2008); She is an NEA and Fulbright Fellow. Lorenz received an MFA from the University of Iowa.
2017
Anthony Wallace
Anthony Wallace is a composer, sound artist and filmmaker. Anthony’s music has been played on the CBC radio, his sound installations have toured nationally, and he has worked on film/TV productions for CBC, APTN, Vision TV and Historica Canada. Anthony obtained an Honours BFA in composition from York University and is the founder of Studio 110 a multimedia production company based out of Toronto.
Cameron Quevedo
Cameron Quevedo is a filmmaker and ethnomusicologist currently based in Austin, Texas. His most recent film, El Tucán, has screened in both the U.S. and Mexico, and will be traveling the festival circuit through 2017. Cameron holds an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas, as well as an MC in Indigenous Documentary Film and an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Virginia Mitford
Virginia Mitford is an emerging Yukon artist. Her childhood, spent on a remote trapline in the Yukon with her family and dog-team, has had a huge influence on her art. Working with a variety of media, namely printmaking, photography and drawing, she examines her own personal history within broader concepts of feminism, nostalgia and change. After graduating from Memorial University with a BFA in Visual Arts, Virginia has taken part in artist residencies in Montreal and Newfoundland.
2016
Dan Hudson
Dan Hudson is a Canadian artist based in Canmore Canada. He received a BFA in Visual Art at York University (Toronto, Canada) and studied anthropology at UCSD (California, USA). Hudson maintains a project based art practice that incorporates and combines various media including photography, video, painting, and sculpture.
Hudson’s work has been shown internationally and is represented in the collections of museums, public galleries and private collections throughout North America and Europe. In recent years Hudson has received six international awards for his art projects.
Julie Zhu
Julie Zhu is an artist and musician and composer working in New York City. Her work stands at an intersection between mathematics, music, and visual representation. Zhu began as a Presidential-Scholar painter and cartoonist for the Washington Post, then majored in both art and mathematics at Yale University and graduated from music conservatory in Belgium in carillon performance. She has since exhibited her work—paintings, murals, sculpture, photographs, music compositions, sound—in Belgium, Holland, Finland, and the United States. Currently Zhu is pursuing an MFA at Hunter College and is the carillonneur at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue.
Andrea Nelson
There is no shortage of material remains in any human environment; their value, however, is of subjective and personal estimation. Assemblage and collage artist Andrea Nelson is predisposed to the possibility that treasure exists everywhere. She sees it in dirt, bones, nickel toys, diner menus, airport maps and other relics that wear the weight of their past or contemporary context. Her artistic arrangements illuminate a sense of wonder in the lost, discarded, antiquated and overlooked, drawing lines of association between seemingly unrelated ideas. Nelson’s perspective is greatly influenced by her rural Alaskan world and professional work in archaeology and museums.
2015
Kevin Curry
Kevin Curry is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Florida State University, where he teaches Digital Foundations, Sculpture and Public Art & Architectural Art. Kevin received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and his MFA in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University. Kevin has been an Artist-in-Residence in Houston, TX, Fort Collins and Denver, CO. and at Grand Canyon National Park. Besides numerous private collections and exhibitions, Kevin also completed a public art commission for the City of Denver titled “Face the sun” and recently exhibited a floating sculptural work at the Mourdes Collection in West Palm Beach.
Heather Callaghan
Heather Bell Callaghan is a local girl who loves the outdoors and was born and raised in the southern Yukon. Her first art mentor was her Grandma, Tlingit artist Eliza Bosely (nee Fox), who lovingly shared with her various technical skills that she thought were both useful and beautiful. Heather is from the Eagle-Killerwhale Clan and has spent the last ten years travelling, studying art, playing outside, taking dance classes, and learning as she goes. Her time as a patrol person on the Chilkoot Trail and growing up on the Haines Road allowed her much time in the mountains where she cultivated a deep love of our rugged home.
Michelle Latimer
Michelle Latimer is a filmmaker, producer, actor and curator. Her award-winning documentary, ALIAS, premiered at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival before screening internationally. Prior to that, her short film Choke premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, received a special Jury Honorable Mention in International Short Filmmaking, was named by Toronto Film Festival among Canada’s Top Ten of 2012 and nominated for a Genie Award. Michelle is currently starring in the critically acclaimed television series Blackstone, and appears as an industry judge on CBC’s, Short Film Face Off. In 2013, she was named among Playback magazine’s 10 To Watch.
2014
Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas
Jessica Auer and Andreas Rutkauskas are visual artists from Montreal, Quebec. They received their MFA degrees in Studio Arts from Concordia University, where they now teach photography. Jessica Auer’s work is largely concerned with the study of cultural sites. From the beaten track to the frontier, she explores places where history and mythology are woven into the landscape, and where contemporary landscape issues emerge. Through the use of photography, video, and mapping, Andreas Rutkauskas’ projects have addressed the impact of Internet-based research on wilderness recreation, the borderlands surrounding the Canada/US international boundary, and cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization. They are both members of the Field Workers, an artist collective that will be exhibiting at oslo8 in Basel, Switzerland in June 2015.
Steve Snell
Steve Snell (b. 1983) grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Miami University in 2006, Steve moved to Alaska and eventually became the art teacher in Yakutat. In 2011, he received his M.F.A. in Studio Art from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the HUB-BUB in Spartanburg, South Carolina and at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Steve is currently on the faculty at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, where he teaches painting, art history, and adventure-art. His work has been shown in galleries and film festivals throughout the United States.
Daphne Mennell
2013
Cassandra Loomis
Nicole Bauberger
Kara Sievewright
2012
Jay White
Jay White likes to bring his imagination to life through oil and watercolour paintings, animated short films, and through interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists. His career runs the gamut from creating music videos, animated television shows and video games to painting exhibitions and collaborations with theatre and dance companies.
His work as Art Director on the animated series Dragon Booster helped it garner a Gemini Award for Best Animated Series in 2005. Jay’s last short film, Boar Attack, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, won many Best Animated Short awards at festivals internationally, and was longlisted for Academy Award nomination in 2009. His current animated short film, The Perfect Detonator, premiered at the St Louis International Film Festival, and is now showing in festivals across the world.
Corrie Francis Parks
Corrie Francis Parks is a photographer and filmmaker based in Big Sky, Montana. An alumna of Dartmouth College and University of Southern California, her award-winning films have been exhibited at over 100 national and international film festivals. She combines photography and animation in time-based works for gallery exhibition and installation. Through long exposures and open-shutter camera movement, her still photography and animated light paintings bring a new palette of textures and rhythms derived from the natural world into the galley setting. She has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Fundación Valparaíso, a Fulbright Fellow to New Zealand, and a recipient of a Sierra Foundation Grant for her work in experimental photography.
2011
Emma Barr
Ava P. Christl
Ava P. Christl makes large scale oil paintings using colour, texture and form to evoke a sense of place. Recurring themes are those of nature and place, wilderness, and the human relationship with the living land. Ava holds a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has shown her work throughout Canada. Her works are held in private and public collections including the Art Bank of Canada. In 2011 her painting “First Snow, Richardsons” was selected by the National Capital Commission to represent Yukon in their banner project featuring the work of 13 Canadian visual artists, one from each province and territory. During her month on the Chilkoot Trail, Christl was inspired by the land and by the rich history of the Trail. Her resulting artworks “are reconstructions of places seen and remembered, and imagined memories of stories and people unknown who left their mark on that land”.
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