Alaska Native Arts Foundation

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting, promoting, and preserving Alaska Native arts and culture.

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Portrait of Amber Webb by Howdice Brown

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Portrait of Melissa Shaginoff by Jenny Irene

Quyana, Gunalchéesh, Enaa baasee’, Mahsi’ choo’, Haw’aa! 

ANAF is dedicated to supporting Alaska Native artists by addressing identified gaps, such as the absence of a directory for sustainable economic opportunities in Alaska’s most remote regions. ANAF brings Alaska Native art to the global marketplace by increasing awareness of the cultural expressions of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples and stimulating demand for Native works of art.

The services and opportunities ANAF provides to its diverse artist population cannot be underestimated. Many artists registered with ANAF reside in some of Alaska’s most remote and economically challenged communities. The tenacity and self-determination of these individuals, who express and share their personal and cultural information through tangible works of art, are twofold. 

Erin Gingrich

Alaska Native Arts Directory

Cama’i, Aang aang, Wáa sá iyatee!
The Alaska Native Arts Directory is a free online platform for all Alaska Native artists—no matter your medium or career stage. Whether you’re a visual artist, create customary arts or crafts, write, make music,  act, are a storyteller, or a language speaker, this space is for you. The Directory will be designed to showcase your work, foster connections, and offer business development resources. 

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News and Updates

Launch of Statewide Alaska Native Arts Directory During 2025 AFN Convention

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAnchorage, AK – October 15, 2025   Contact: Alaska Native Arts FoundationPhone: (907) 258-ANAF Email: https://alaskanativeartsdirectory.org/ Website: www.aknativearts.org  Board Chair thanks Senator Murkowski and Partners for Making Long-Needed Tool Possible Anchorage, Alaska — The Alaska Native Arts Foundation (ANAF) is proud to announce that the Alaska Native Arts Directory is now live, providing the

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February 28, 2026
2025 Alaska Native Workshop Series

In 2025 the Alaska Native Arts Foundation partnered with the Anchorage Museum Seed Lab to build an Alaska Native workshop series. Workshops ran from May through November 2025 and included mask carving with David Angaiak (Yup’ik), ladle carving with Eric Hamar (Haida), moosehide medallion beading with Rochelle Adams (Gwich’in), and seal skin bowtie making.  Thank you to our project

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December 2, 2025

Partners and Supporters

The Alaska Native Arts Directory was launched by the Alaska Native Arts Foundation and made possible through the guidance, partnership, and support of artists, culture-bearers, nonprofit leaders, public agencies, and organizations across Alaska, whose insight, generosity, and shared vision shaped every step of its development.