Inuit Premiere 2010 classes

Award winning Inuit soapstone sculptor

Ohito Ashoona

will be back to participate in

Sivertson Gallery's

10th Annual

Inuit Premiere

Saturday, March 13th.

Ohito will again be teaching students

at North House Folk School

the basics and advanced techniques

of soapstone carving.

Inuit Soapstone Carving Traditions (March 11-12)

http://www.northhouse.org/courses/courses/course.cfm/cid/253

Inuit Stone Sculpting - Movement On Ice (March 14-15)

http://www.northhouse.org/courses/courses/course.cfm/cid/252

To view Ohito's profile page, click here.

http://www.northhouse.org/courses/courses/instructor.cfm/iid/7

Inuit Premiere 2010 Guest Artists

Karen Olanna of Nome, AK

is one of the featured artists for

Sivertson Gallery's

10th Annual 

Inuit Premiere

Saturday, March 13.



Karen Olanna is a

noted Alaskan sculptor

who creates mystical

native Eskimo inspired

works from indigenous

Alaskan caribou antler,

musk ox horn, whalebone

and ancient Alaskan

wooly mammoth bone,

which dates back  thousands

of years.  She creates both

animal forms and human figures

from these natural materials

which she and her husband,

Bryan Weyauwanna gather

from the tundra and beaches

west of Nome.