Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Videos
- Listen & Learn: Iñupiaq Language and Culture Video Lessons
© Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, 2014
These videos feature footage from a 2011 language and culture seminar with fluent Iñupiaq speakers. Each video is based on their discussion of an object from the exhibition Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska and includes archival photos, illustrations and film footage. A teacher's guide and lessons with worksheets are provided, offering teachers, students, parents and lifelong learners access to Iñupiaq language and lifeways.
- Listen & Learn: St. Lawrence Island Yupik Language and Culture Video Lessons
© Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, 2014
These videos feature footage from a 2012 language and culture seminar with fluent St. Lawrence Island Yupik speakers. Each video is based on their discussion of an object from the exhibition Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska and includes archival photos, illustrations and film footage. A teacher's guide and lessons with worksheets are provided, offering teachers, students, parents and lifelong learners access to Yupik language and lifeways. - The Art of Aleutian Islands Bentwood Hats
© Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, 2014
In March 2012, two master artists and two apprentices worked together to demonstrate and document how to make bentwood hats, supporting the passing on of an endangered traditional art. They shared a week of teaching, learning and studying museum pieces created by previous generations.
- Sewing Salmon
© Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, 2014
In December 2012, three contemporary Alaska Native artists – who had been experimenting individually to piece together the tradition of rendering fish skins into beautiful, durable clothing and art – worked together for a week of teaching, learning and studying fishskin objects made in previous generations. Each of the three artists has a unique approach to her work and a commitment to this nearly lost art.
- Dene Quill Art
© Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, 2014
In October 2013, three artists who work with porcupine quills – two Athabascan and one from Montana – worked together for a week, exchanging ideas and techniques and studying masterworks from museum collections to re-discover historical techniques.
