Processing and creating with salmon skin is a traditional skill with  modern applications. Learn from Audrey Armstrong, a self-taught artist  who learned how to process and work with fish skin. Armstrong uses this  resource as a functional medium to create baskets and other objects.

Audrey Armstrong is Koyukon Athabascan from the villages of Huslia and Nulato,  currently living in Anchorage. She has been creating art from fish  skins for more than 20 years. She currently creates fish skin baskets  and teaches about fish skin sewing.

This  program is part of the Salmon Culture exhibition at the Anchorage Museum. Salmon Culture celebrates the connections between salmon and  Alaska Native peoples and honors salmon as a resource that has nourished  communities physically and spiritually for thousands of years.

Past Recorded Event - In Context: Creating with Salmon Skin (September 6th, 2024)