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Salmon Skin Sewing with Rochelle Adams

1 - 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 & Friday, Sept. 13

Reynolds Room, First Floor, East Wing

In-Person Event

Salmon is a resource that has nourished Alaskans for thousands of years, both physically and spiritually. Connect with salmon traditions and learn about sewing salmon skin with Rochelle Adams. Students will learn about how to work with the material over two afternoons. Program participants will create a set of earrings and a matching necklace from beads and salmon skin. All materials provided. $100; includes museum admission. Registration required.
 
Scholarships available upon request, email Sierra Young at syoung@anchoragemuseum.org. 
 
About The Artist
Rochelle Adams, Gwich'in, is from the interior villages of Beaver and Fort Yukon in the Yukon Flats. She was raised with a close connection to the lands and waters, living a traditional lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and gathering with her family. Rochelle is a passionate language educator and artist who loves to share cultural teachings through art.

This program is part of the Salmon Culture exhibition at the Anchorage Museum. Salmon Culture celebrates the connections between salmon and Alaska Native peoples and honors salmon as a resource that has nourished communities physically and spiritually for thousands of years.

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