Chickaloonies Comic Art

The Chickaloonies Comic Art project provides engaging and creative educational resources to help empower Indigenous youth in Alaska and beyond. Our work focuses on the comic art form as a creative way to learn about, express and perpetuate Indigenous heritage and Indigenous ways of learning: honoring Elders and knowledge-keepers and seeking to learn from them; experiencing the impact of storytelling and traditional values; learning multi-faceted information from heritage pieces in museum collections; and creating contemporary arts inspired by historic arts. Find the project resources on Smithsonian Learning Lab at learninglab.si....
Project team: Artist Dimi Macheras (Ahtna Athabascan), 80% Studios; artist Casey Silver (non-Native), 80% Studios; cultural heritage collaborator Melissa Shaginoff (Ahtna Athabascan, Paiute); and project manager Dawn Biddison (non-Native), Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, Alaska office
. To contact the project manager, please send an email to Dawn at biddisond(at)si.edu. Contact 80% Studios at 80percentstudios(at)gmail.com and visit their Facebook page at / 80percentstudios .
This project was made possible through generous support by The CIRI Foundation's Education Heritage Grant program, the Recovering Voices program of Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, the Alaska State Council on the Arts, and supporters of the Arctic Studies Center in Alaska.