Decker, Julie; Berlo, Janet Catherine; Fry, Laura — Mark: Sonya Kelliher-Combs

Munich / Anchorage, AK / Calbe, Germany, Hirmer Verlag / Anchorage, AK / Cuno Druck, 2024. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Pictorial matte boards. No jacket, as issued. 239 pages : color illustrations, color portraits ; 30 cm. "Artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs creates works embedded in cultural values and knowledge. Mark speaks to Alaska, colonization, and the resilience and sovreignty of Indigenous people. Land is at the center of the work,, with materials derived from subsistence, marked by experience, historical tragedies and traumas, human and non-human agents, and self. The work honors what is harvested, respects what the natural world provides, and celebrates family and community."-- Back cover. Artist's statement -- Artist's statement [translated into] Iñupiaq -- Artist's statement [translated into] Koyukon Athabascan -- Introduction -- Buried and exposed: land in the work of Sonya Kelliher-Combs / Julie Decker -- Perseverance, continuity, ingenuity: Sonya Kelliher-Combs' community-centered practice / by Heather Igloliorte -- Sonya Kelliher-Combs / by Laura Phipps -- gathering buoyant / by Tanya Lukin Linklater -- Interview / by Candice Hopkins -- Works -- Drawings -- Paintings -- Poems -- Untitled / by Taqralik Partridge -- For Loretta, for Cindy / by Taqralik Partridge -- Sea Woman / by Taqralik Patridge. As new.