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Artists are invited to participate in a wilderness artist-in-residence program in Alaska, to be inspired by the wilderness and create artwork that communicates its meaning and inspirational qualities to the community.
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Get matched →The Voices of the Wilderness artist residency is a unique opportunity modeled after traditional artist residencies, but with a twist: instead of staying at a remote wilderness cabin, participating artists are paired with a wilderness specialist and actively engaged in stewardship projects such as research, monitoring, and education. This aims to give artists a sense of the stewardship behind America’s public lands, fostering an artistic exploration of these natural and cultural treasures, and resulting in artwork that communicates something of the meaning of these lands.
As an artist-in-residence, you will experience the wilderness like few others, traveling alongside a ranger. There will be plenty of time to absorb the wilderness environment. As a volunteer, each artist will assist with some basic ranger duties, which may include boarding a tour boat to provide education, participating in research projects such as seal counts or climate change studies, walking a beach to remove litter, or other generally light duties. However, an emphasis for the artist will be experiencing the wilderness and exploring how to communicate its inspirational qualities through their artwork.
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