Local Conversation Series: Alaska Art Alliance with Leon Kinneeveauk

Learn about life in Anchorage, from the residents who know it best.
This session features the Alaska Art Alliance with speaker Leon Kinneeveauk, who will demonstrate walrus ivory scrimshaw and share insights about the organization’s carving shop and artistic practice.
Award winning Inupiaq Eskimo artist Leon Misak Kinneeveauk was raised in Point Hope, Alaska where he learned the Inupiaq style art from his uncle Jacob Lane. Leon currently resides in Anchorage, Alaska where he runs his art business, Misak Inupiaq Art and is the founder and director of Alaska Art Alliance, a nonprofit that provides free carving space to carvers in the Anchorage area. His style of Inupiaq art ranges from carving walrus ivory, bowhead whale bone, soapstone, wood, he does bowhead whale baleen and ivory scrimshaw, Inupiaq ivory hunting scenes, Inupiaq prints, Inupiaq greeting cards, Inupiaq masks, qayaqs, whale hunting boats, ivory jewelry, ivory snow goggles, etc. In 2022 he entered his work in the world-renowned Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico and won best of Division A sculpture and first place in sculpture. In 2023 he entered his work in the world renowned Pheonix, Arizona Heard Museum Indian Market where he won best of class in sculpture, first place in mixed media, innovation award, judges' choice and honorable mention. Leon Misak Kinneeveauk has a passion for brining Inupiaq art and culture to the world.
Sessions will be held outside the log cabin this year, weather permitting and depending on park construction progress.
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