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Homer writer Erin Coughlin Hollowell is photographed in 2019. Photo by Joshua Veldstra

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Homer author to debut her third poetry collection

By Christina Whiting

Provided by Asia Freeman, taken by Akagi A woman wears Sydney Akagi’s art mask in the fall of 2020, in Tlingit Aani, Juneau, Alaska.

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Bunnell Street Arts Center’s collaboration with Alaska Native artists begins yearlong tour

The tour began May 19 in Portland, Oregon

Photo provided by artist Quentin Simeon is photographed in Homer in February 2023.

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Quentin Simeon has stories to tell

He will present the living tradition of contemporary Yup’ik storytelling

Rachel Nesvig with Hardanger fiddle. Photo provided by Rachel Nesvig.

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Norwegian traditional arts workshop and performance come to Homer

Homer Council on the Arts hosted a week of Norwegian traditional arts, featuring musician Rachel Nesvig on the…

A black tote holding Alaska Native artifacts sits on the ground of the Juneau International Airport Thursday afternoon. It was flown from Seattle after being filled with 25 Alaska Native artifacts held at George Fox University in Oregon. ( Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)

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Kake to welcome artifacts — some over 200 years old — back home

‘When I looked at them it was like looking at my past and my elders’

Black soldiers of Company L, 24th Infantry, famously known as "Buffalo Soldiers," parade on 5th Avenue in Skagway, between Broadway and State streets, in front of the Daily Budget newspaper on July 4, 1899. A recent book from a University of Alaska Anchorage history professor traces the long history of Black Americans in Alaska. (Courtesy image / Alaska's Digital Archives)

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Book traces over 150 years of Black history in Alaska

Before the gold rush.

Dana Zigmund / Juneau Empire Siblings Lea Skaggs, left, and Drake Skaggs, right, show off work by their brother Avery Skaggs at the opening night of a show at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum featuring a selection of work Avery Skaggs created during the pandemic lockdown. The exhibition is titled “Home: Disability Creativity in a Pandemic Lockdown.”

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Creating without community

‘Capitvating’ new exhibit contains artist’s lockdown work

Dana Zigmund / Capital City Weekly Tlingit and Athabascan artist, designer and activist Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl places a portion of what will become the 60-by 20-foot public mural depicting Elizabeth Kaaxgal.aat Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights icon, into place at Centennial Hall on Aug. 13. Once complete, the mural will appear on the currently blank south wall of the Marine Parking garage, the structure on which the downtown branch of Juneau’s public library sits.

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A mural comes to life

Team of artists assemble pieces

Participants burn an example of a commercial garment that led to a now-settled intellectual property lawsuit in a ceremony commemorating the settlement with the fashion company on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire)

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Saga over garment design copyright infringement ends with ceremonial fire

The case was settled in March.

Sketches for a new 60 -by- 25-foot mural depicting Elizabeth Kaax̱gal.aat Peratrovich, a Tlingit civil rights activist who worked for equality for Alaska Natives in the 1940s, are laid out for sorting in the studio of Tlingit and Athabascan artist, designer, and activist Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl. (Courtesy photo / Crystal Kaakeeyaa Worl)

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New mural to honor Alaskan civil rights leader

The 60-by-25-foot mural will greet visitors.

Veterans and active duty servicemembers carry the totem pole on July 24, 2021 as hundreds gathered in Hoonah for its raising. (Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire)

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Hoonah honors veterans with totem pole, future memorial park

From the Alaska Territorial Guard to today’s servicemembers, the Southeast has a legacy of service.