Bunnell Street Arts Center is pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts has approved Bunnell Street Arts Center for an Our Town grant in the amount of $50,000 to work in partnership with the Ninilchik Village Tribe…
Join us on September 24, from 1 - 2 pm at Bishop’s Beach Park and Pavilion for Tuyanitun Qetitl’ Ka’a, a dedication ceremony for the installation of the Indigenous landmarking sculpture Tuyanitun : Tuggeht. The event is hosted by the…
Indigenous place name marker proposal Argent Kvasnikoff 2019 Wayfinding and geolocation are the inspirations of my proposed design for a future series of markers that denote the indigenous Dena’ina names of places and geographical features on the Kenai Peninsula to…
How can land acknowledgment spark other ways of knowing, being and listening into action? Argent Kvasnikoff shares the significance of Nichiłt’ana and birch for the Ninilchik Tribe, other materials, colors, the spatial organization of the types of structures that were…
Last fall Nichiłt’ana, Ninilchik Village Tribe, approved a sculpture design by tribal member, Argent Kvasnikoff for Tuyanitun. Last summer the City approved a gift of sculpture for Bishops Beach Park from Bunnell Street Arts Center. The sculpture, Tuyanitun was conceived…
Bunnell Street Arts Center’s ongoing focus on land acknowledgment aims to cultivate knowledge and respect for Alaska’s living cultures. Located in a historic trading post (est. 1937), a critical agent in settler colonization of this area, Bunnell today provides time…
"Marking Tuggeht: an Indigenous Land-Acknowledgement Initiative with Argent Kvasnikoff and civic partners." This is the third conversation in a five-part series of dialogues with Indigenous Alaska artists as part of a community process of education and transparency in decision-making about…
Artist Talk Q and A Ninilchik native artist Argent Kvasnikoff was born in Homer and studied linguistic anthropology and art history. He works with humanist themes illuminated by his indigenous culture, with most of his work involving his culture’s endangered…