Contact ClarissA & view our links
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Email:
clarissa[at]clarissarizal[dot]com
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Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 21453, Juneau, Alaska, 99802
Phone:
970.903.8386
Links
We enjoy being of service to our fellow artists. If you are an artist, gallery or arts organization and would like to be a part of the links on my website, be brave and just Contact Me! The following are a few favorites:
- Artstream Cultural Resources is the non-profit arts organization based in Colorado and Alaska supporting artists and musicians from around the country since 2000 - Clarissa is a co-founding Board of Director
- Alaskan Tlingit Totem pole & canoe carver Wayne Price at Silver Cloud Art Center located in Haines, Alaska, Wayne is one of the few Tlingit carvers skilled in the making of the traditional Tlingit dugout canoes - Silver Cloud Center also hosts cultural events including Chilkat weavers gatheirngs, drum-making, regalia-making, traditional song & dance, and subsistence knowledge & skills.
- Alaska Native Storyteller Ishmael Hope shares stories from his Inupiaq and Tlingit heritages, perfoming across Alaska and the U.S., for all ages and a variety of audiences. A writer, actor and an enthusiastic learner and educator of Alaska Native art and culture, he is deeply involved in cultural events of his people frequently sharing through workshops, classrooms and conferences.
- Alaskan Tlingit Native Basketry & Ravenstail Weaver Teri Rofkar award-winning Ravenstail and basket weaver, has been teaching these traditional art forms for almost 20 years, she is from Sitka, Alaska who now lives part-time in Hilo, Hawaii
- Alaskan Tlingit carver & multi-media artist, Israel Shotridge is a traditional carver with a humble sense of humor specializing in carving totem poles and house posts, as well as a print-maker, from Ketchikan, Alaska presently living on Vashon Island, Washington State
- Alaskan Woodcarver & Silversmith Greg Horner also does etched print-making, taught the traditional art forms from Native elders back in the early 70's who took Greg under their wing, he has lived most of his adult life in Haines, Alaska
Alaskana Botanicals Jan Parrish is a longtime alchemist who wildcrafts in Hoonah, Alaska. She spends many an hour seeking wild plants to create her all natural line of products. She has practied Chinese acupuncture and herbal/nutritional medicine for over 20 years. Check out her salves including Devil's Club, Spruce tip, and Comfrey!
- Alaskan Artists John & Sharon Svensonmulti-media artists working in glass, fiber, print-making, bead-making, and painting built their studio home/gallery in Haines, Alaska over 30 years ago
- Alaskan Tlingit Multi-media artist, Donna Beaver is a graphic artist, photographer, poet and writer presently working for the U.S. Geological Survey as a web-designer/media specialist, currently living in New Jersey, she creates exhibits featuring Northwest Coast Native art motifs combined with images of Nature
- Haiku Chronicles Husband and Wife team, Donna Beaver and All Pizzarelli are the co-founders/co-directors of this on-line international newsletter featuring writings and podcasts from writers across the nation.
- Alaskan Tlingit photographer, Larry McNeil was THE Alaska Native photographer since the late 70's, he is currently an art professor at the University of Idaho, Boise
- Alaskan Basketweaver, Pam Credo-Hayes a student of Chilkat weaving as well, currently living in Juneau, Alaska, comes from long line of artists
- Coast Salish Native artist, Susan Pointa truly fantastic, prolific artist from the Coast Salish traditions
- Coast Salish Native artist, Shaun Peterson one of the few young Coast Salish artists with innovative works in glass, paper, and wood
- Tsimpshian Carver and Culture Bearer, David Boxley also is the leader of the famed Tsimpshian dance group "Git Hoan"
- Ravenstail & Chilkat weaver, Cheryl Samuel is noted for reviving the Ravenstail traditional weaving of the Northwest Coast
- Alaskan Tlingit Film-maker/Director Kahlil Hudson received his Masters from the UCLA in both film-making and cinematoraphy, traveling the world over, currently living in Santa Fe with his wife and daughter, he is the son of Clarissa
- Alaskan Tlingit Storyteller/Actress Lily Hudson is receiving her Masters in Educatiion striving to be one of Alaska's few Native school teachers, currently living in Juneau, Alaska with her husband and daughter, she is the oldest daughter of Clarissa
- Alaskan Tlingit Webdesigner/artist/photographer Ursala Hudsona multi-faceted, multi-media artist who home-schooled the first 9 years of her life, is receiving her BFA and is currently living in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, with her husband and daughter, she is the youngest daughter of Clarissa
- Alaska Indian Arts, Inc.one of the few early organizations and art center that supported Tlingit arts started in the early 60's based in Haines, Alaska at Ft. Seward
- Contemporary painter/collage artist, Cecil Touchon astounding paintings and collagesinfluenced Clarissa's contemporary paintings, he presently lives in Ft. Worth Texas
Northwest Coast Galleries, Publishers, Non-profits, NPR's, etc.:
- Inuit Gallery, Vancouver B.C
- Sealaska Heritage Institute
- Stonington Gallery, Seattle WA
- Garfinkels Publications
- Tapestry Institute
- Snowchange.org
- Potlatch Fund
- 1st People's Fund
- Evergreen Longhouse
- New England Foundation for the Arts
- Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
- KNBA Radio, Anchorage
- Alaska Native Heritage Center
Pagosa Springs Community Web Sites:
Check out the latest addition to Clarissa's website: the blog! Read about the latest classes, cultural events, shows, exhibits; life in Alaska (and wherever Clarissa happents to be traveling and living); all posted with photos, videos and/or podcasts.
Check out the frequently updated calendar:
Are you interested in learning about weaving?
Classes, apprenticeships & RETREATS
Interested in hosting a Chilkat weaving demonstration and presentation?
Demonstrations & presentations
Read a biography on Jennie Thlunaut, the last, traditional Chilkat Weaver; read about the places she gathered her supplies, lived a subsistence lifestyle, and the Chilkat Valley; read about the origin of Chilkat weaving:
Read about Clarissa's apprenticeship with Jennie Thlunaut:
jennie thlunaut apprenticeship
Read bios of folks who have recently passed having influenced Clarissa in her career as a multi-faceted artist:
Read magazine and newspaper reviews on Clarissa's work
Contact Clarissa for permission to use text or images for educational purposes only.