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Indigenous cultures, and as a result offered programs to support Alaska Native artists and preserve cultural heritage. Funded by a combination of government grants and private funding in the form of donations from Alaska Native corporations, the organization distributed grant money through project support programs to provide in-residence art programs, educational programs for rural schools, funding for museum demonstrations, art workshops, and exhibitions and documentation of native artists' work.
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In 2023, the Alaska Native Arts Foundation was relaunched with new funding. As opposed to the curation and reopening of a physical gallery, the new concept consisted of an online portal for Alaska Native artists and an innovative digital marketplace that directly connects buyers with Indigenous art.
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The Foundation went dormant in the spring of 2016 as the result of lost state funding and low markups on sold art. The physical gallery in downtown Anchorage was closed. At the time of closure, the stock of the Foundation gallery was made available for private sale, and services were phased out to
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community. Its mission is focused on the advancement of Indigenous art into global marketplaces to enhance economic development in the state of Alaska and create fairly-priced markets for Alaska Native art. The Foundation also seeks to provide general awareness and public education of Alaska's
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The Native Arts Foundation gallery in Anchorage, which opened in 2006 presented and curated the works of Native artists, including visual art, spoken word, performance art and choreography, dance, fashion, and video, as well as presenting works created during privately organized workshops and
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Anchorage, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska; Sharman, Haley; Ginny, Fay; Joel, Ainsworth; Jane, Angvik; Alexandra, Hill; Stephanie, Martin (2009-07-07).
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In addition, the Foundation maintained extensive inventory of Native art and utilitarian handmade items of all sorts, based on the "subsistence" lifestyle of their makers:
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dolls dressed in traditional sealskin clothing, bronze sculpture and oil and acrylic paintings; and wearable art and accessories: jewelry, carved masks, traditional "
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made using natural material, summer parkas, beaded gowns using quills and moose hide, bolo ties, walrus whisker earrings, "
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business training. Outside of Alaska, the foundation also promoted Alaskan Native art at events and festivals in
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Non-profit organizations based in Anchorage, Alaska
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