GLIMPSES OF WHO WE ARE
Sven Haakanson and the art of collaboration
In the green-walled corner of Kodiak's Alutiiq museum, I survey masks, twelve remarkable masks. Carved out of wood, elaborately adorned with feathers, shells, lacquered in white, rust, black and other shades of earth. But these are not ancient masks; they were carved this summer. And they were not fashioned by native elders or master carvers; they were made by students, Native and non-Native alike, part of a summer art program sponsored by the museum.
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