The Sheldon Jackson Museum and Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum are pleased to announce the 2026 slate of artists in the Alaska Native Artist Residency Program. In this popular program, artists from around the state fill residencies at the museum, during which time they study the collections, provide cultural consultations to museum staff, and share their work with the public through artist lectures, hands-on workshops, and demonstrations, and work with 4H youth and visit elders at the Sitka Pioneer Home.
This year, in May and August through October, the museum is hosting three artists-in-residence including Koyukon Athabascan caribou tufter and beader Selina Alexander (May 2-20), Sugpiaq boat model builder and jeweler Larissa Kramer (Aug. 26-Sept. 15) and Iñupiaq & Peruvian sculptor, skin sewer, beader, and ceramic artist Kris Waymire (Sept. 16-30). During their residencies, Alexander will tuft caribou and do beadwork; Kramer will work with fish skin, resin, botanicals, beads and on a boat model; Waymire will focus on sewing their mother’s sealskin parka.
The 2026 Alaska Native Artist Residency Program at the Sheldon Jackson Museum is made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Alaska Airlines, Alaska Arts Southeast, Maxwell Hanrahan Foundation, and private donors.