Yup'ik/Alaska Native contemporary and traditional arts and crafts
Highlights 🐿️ 2024 Part 1
January started off with an idea and I was ahead of my timeline, surprisingly! There were three events for this project. My goal was I had to work extra hard to finish a parka in at least two transformations. Imagine an imaginary transformation in Narnia! Yes, the book written by C.S. Lewis – in Yup’ik perspective! More amazingly, a book compiled by Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden and Marie Meade, titled “The Flying Parka” Tengautuli Atkuk!!
Merna Wharton “Nasektaq” is Yup'ik from Akiacuaq (Akiachak) lives in Anchorage Alaska. Merna is an Alaska Native artist, poet, traditional and contemporary seamstress, carver, gatherer of greens and berries, and loves the outdoors of Alaska! Merna enjoys finding art in natural elements and shares her experiences through her website, nasektaq.com. Merna crafts to preserve her culture and art and shares her worldview from a remote village Yup’ik girl’s perspective with a glimpse of life in Alaska in her writing and poems. More information about her art can be found at https://www.rasmuson.org/49writers/artist-profile/merna-wharton/.
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