Alaska Native Heritage Center

STARTING TODAY! Don’t miss Anchorage’s favorite holiday shopping event featuring over 60 Alaska Native artists!🎁Shop jewelry, authentic Alaska Native art, clothing, accessories and more one-of-a-kind gifts at the 2025 ANHC Holiday Bazaar. Free entry!

GET YOUR TICKETS - 25% OF PROCEEDS TO SUPPORT TYPHOON HALONG RECOVERY EFFORTS! This Saturday (just 3 days away!) at our 2nd Annual ANHC Benefit Concert, we’ll be donating 25% of all proceeds to support the Typhoon Halong relief efforts. TICKETS: tinyurl.com/3vkkd7t6

Thank you all for standing together in compassion, unity, and love for our Western Alaska communities. By following these coordinated efforts, we can ensure our support truly reaches those in need without overwhelming local response systems. #WesternAlaskaStrong #CommunityCare

🎉 Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day at ANHC! 🛍️ Visit the Ch’k’iqadi Gallery for 10% off authentic Alaska Native art & gifts. Oct 13-17: Alaska Native artist vendors will be selling their work at ANHC all week long! Support local Indigenous businesses 💫

Growing Our Own: Please join us in celebrating Kelsey Ciugun Wallace's (Yup'ik and Irish) promotion to President & CEO of the Alaska Native Heritage Center!  Quyana to the Future Elder team for creating this video announcement. Audio by Torin Jacobs (Yup'ik).

ANHC's Tiamuna (Future, Iñupiatun) program just ended after 5 years. Funded by the Office of Indian Education, it connected Indigenous families to cultural enrichment & education. 🔗Reflection on Tiamuna’s legacy by Family Liaison Anthony Nauska loom.ly/u7GbGcc

We’re honored to announce Kelsey Ciugun Wallace (Yup’ik and Irish) as the new President & CEO of the #AlaskaNativeHeritageCenter! Read the full press release here: tinyurl.com/mvpf76a6 🎉 Please join us in celebrating this momentous step forward!

🌟Learn how to make Yup’ik dance breastplates with Golga Oscart! This workshop is made possible through support provided by Providence Alaska Foundation and in partnership with Kuskokwim Campus Native Arts Department UAF. 🔗 Details & Application: loom.ly/79O-Zh4

Didn't get a table at the Elders & Youth Conference or AFN? ANHC is offering a great alternative for artists to showcase and sell their work during Native New Year. 📞Contact the Ch'k'iqadi Gallery at (907) 330-8009 to pay over the phone. First come, first served.

✨ Elders & Youth Conference, AFN, and Quyana Nights are almost here! ✨ 📅 Oct 14–17: ANHC spaces are reserved free of charge for dance groups. 📅 Before Oct 14: Email Julissia King at jking@alaskanative.net or call (907) 330-8000 with your group size and preferred date/time.

Sept 30 is #OrangeShirtDay, a day of remembrance for our relatives who went to assimilative boarding school institutions. At ANHC, we believe it’s important that Alaska Native Peoples tell this story. 🔗View ANHC's interactive boarding school map & more: loom.ly/NNdEW8Q

Happy 80th Birthday to Marge (Yup’ik and Iñupiaq), the Alaska Native Heritage Center’s beloved Elder-in-Residence! She is ANHC’s honorary Aaka ❤️, and is cherished for her incredible storytelling and masterful sewing skills. 📷 Photo by Amber Maalouf

🎉 After a record-breaking summer, ANHC is transitioning to the winter season ❄️ 🔗Read the full announcement here: loom.ly/eJVRlME

A moose was seen visiting the whale jaw bones at the Alaska Native Heritage Center! Photo credit to Tiamuna Program Manager, Veronica Boerger (Cup'ik).

Learn to make soft-bottom piluguks with Yup’ik artist Eva Bryant at Alaska Native Heritage Center. Free 10-day workshop—apply by Fri, Sept 19 at 12PM! 🔗loom.ly/hzCt38g

✨ One of the highlights of our summer was hosting the inspiring cohort of grantees from the America’s Cultural Treasures Initiative, sponsored by the Ford Foundation. ANHC is honored to stand alongside institutions shaping the future of arts and culture.

All are welcome to our free family-friendly celebration marking the naming of Chanshtnu Park! Sept 12, 2025, from 4:30 – 7:30 PM Chanshtnu Muldoon Park 🔗loom.ly/Q-0b7SM 🎨 Face Painting 🎶 Music 🎣 Fish On Camp Grill Food Truck 🤩 Outdoor Games ✂️ Arts & Crafts!

Earlier this month, ANHC welcomed the Kato family of Japanese Taiko drummers 🎶 This cultural exchange marked their 539th free U.S. performance. Their goal: 1,000 free shows in all 50 states to share the beauty of their stories. Arigatou. Quyana. Taikuu. #CulturalExchange

🎉ANHC's Community NYO Practice starts up again next week! 🎉 loom.ly/WTGOB-E

Through a generous endowment from the Stanley and Kleehammer families, the Melissa Beth Kleehammer Memorial Scholarship honors ANHC's former Director of Marketing & Sales. She was instrumental in positioning ANHC at the forefront of cultural tourism in Anchorage.