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Artist Opportunities at Sheldon Jackson Museum

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Alaska Native Artist Residency Program

Collage showing artist residency activities at the museum

2025 Program Info

Now accepting applications for the 2025 summer season!

We have four residency openings available:

  • July 16-August 4
  • August 11-31
  • September 3-22
  • September 23-October 14

Positions will be filled as funding allows and is contingent upon grant awards.

Residencies will offer a $2,300 artist stipend, a $735 food stipend, lodging, and travel to and from Sitka.

For more information on the 2025 Alaska Native Artist Residency Program, read our Call for Native Artist Residency Applications.

2025 Native Artist Residency Flyer

How to Apply

Complete the form and email it, along with any attachments, to SJM Curator Jackie Hamberg.

NARP application (fillable pdf)

Applications are due January 15, 2025.

About the Program

Since 1988, summer visitors to the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka have enjoyed the opportunity to meet Alaska Native artists-in-residence at the Sheldon Jackson Museum. Artists discuss their culture, artwork, and creative process with visitors as they work in the gallery and give lectures and hands-on workshops and lead other public programs of their own design.

Individuals interested in making a donation to the residency program should contact the Friends of the Sheldon Jackson Museum by calling 907-747-6233 or emailing Friends of SJM.

Read more about the Native Artist Residency Program.

Spring Lecture/Culture Share Series

father and daughter two women in regalia from back

Past speakers in the Friends Winter Series. Left: Dr. Sven Haakanson (Sugpiaq, Danish, Norwegian, Russian American) shows his daughter how to use a traditional throwing board. Right: Pamela Johnston's (Tlingit) daughters wear regalia, including robes, she made.

Now Accepting Applications

The Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum are seeking proposals for the 2025 Spring Lecture/Culture Share Series. Speakers are invited to propose a 50-60 minute Zoom presentation in one of six categories:

  1. Talk on your art form, culture, or relevant topic.
  2. Storytelling–share a traditional story or several stories.
  3. Provide an art-making demonstration.
  4. Teach a dance/song or several dances and songs.
  5. Share a traditional Alaska Native recipe and give a cooking demonstration showing how to make the dish.
  6. Give a presentation on a topic connected to Alaska Native cultures or interests you have researched for higher education purposes, publications, professional interest, or work for tribes, villages or corporations. Presentations on sovereignty, boarding schools in Alaska, subsistence, language, TEK (traditional ecological knowledge), museum collections you have studied with Alaska Native material and artwork, etc. and more are welcome.

How to Apply

Email Jacqueline Fernandez-Hamberg for details.

Logistics

  • Speakers will need computer access and internet with sufficient bandwidth for Zoom.
  • At the end of each event, the speaker will give a short Q & A. 
  • If selected, speakers will need to provide a brief bio and images to help advertise the event.
  • A test run will be done ahead of the event to ensure sufficient connection quality. 
  • Speakers will receive a $200 honorarium from the Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum for their participation.
  • If speakers are in Sitka at the time of the event, they may do their presentation in-person at the museum and simultaneously on Zoom.

Page last updated 12/03/2024