Virtual Artist Talk: Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Athabascan)

Join us online for dynamic conversations with Indigenous artists exploring identity, heritage, and contemporary expression. In conjunction with the Zimmerli Art Museum’s exhibition Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Sonya Kelliher-Combs virtually joins us to discuss her artwork “Remnant (Walrus Bone IV)” and her wider mixed media art making practice.

Selfie of Sonya Kelliher-Combs, a female presenting person wearing a navy v neck top, tortoise shell patterned large frame glasses, and decorative purple earrings. Her hair is black and pull back in a bun or ponytail. She is lightly smiling and her eyes look toward the camera.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Koyukon) is a mixed-media visual artist whose family hails from the North Slope and Interior of Alaska. Her work focuses on the changing North and our relationship to nature and each other. Through visual art, community engagement, curation and advocacy, Sonya works to create opportunities to feature Indigenous voices and contemporary artwork that inform and encourage social action. Traditional women's work taught her to appreciate the intimacy of intergenerational knowledge and material histories. These experiences and skills allow Sonya to examine connections between Western and Indigenous cultures. Sonya lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska.

Free & open to the public. Please register in advance for this webinar on Zoom.