Selaska Heritage gets grant for totem pole trail<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\nHe said the SHI plans to erect the totem poles in late February or March and the carving of each is already underway. Each pole has been assigned to a master artist from a Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Alaska Native communities throughout Southeast Alaska to carve and teach the carving skills to two apprentices who will learn as well as help craft each pole.<\/p>\n
“It’s a little more than simply just carving a Totem pole. Not only does the master artist have to carve the pole, but they also have to teach to apprentices; and in that way, we’re able to pass along that knowledge,” he said.<\/p>\n
This installation project is just the first phase of a master plan to erect around 30 Totem poles along the waterfront and in Overstreet Park. Kadinger said the goal is comprise a totem pole trail — Kootéeyaa Deiyí. The funding for this phase comes from a $2.9 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which pays for the totem pole carving installation and apprenticeship as well.<\/p>\n
Kadinger said even though the first phase hasn’t even broken ground yet, SHI is already working on the future installations to come. “We’re already working on that,” he said, laughing.<\/p>\n
“The city is very supportive of it and was always supportive of public art in our public spaces, especially Alaska Native art. I think this trail will become a real visitor attraction and hopefully help tell the story of our community to visitors in an interesting way and a unique way,” said Alexandra Pierce, the CBJ tourism manager.<\/p>\n
Pierce said CBJ and SHI will work together in the future to continue to bring as many totem poles to life as envisioned by SHI. But, the exact location is up for change and will be based on the individual factors of each location.<\/p>\n
“It’s super cool to see SHI elevating the art in our public spaces. This is the next evolution of that,” Pierce said.<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or at (651)-528-1807. Follow her on Twitter @clariselarson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The installation is planned to begin in early 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":88527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[765,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-88526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-city-and-borough-of-juneau","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88526"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=88526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}