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. Practice your salmon skin sewing by creating a salmon skin key ring to take home.

In Context is a museum program in which experts provide context for the history, art, science and culture of Alaska and the North. Free; registration required.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
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.

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