Tongass Voices

Carrlee is currently collaborating with artists and culture bearers across the state to better understand bead preservation.

The author and artist spent the last decade writing a graphic memoir about her family’s history. The memoir is called Feeding Ghosts, and it’s won three national awards.

Smith has performed at festivals with blues legends like B.B. King, James Brown, Son Seals and Taj Mahal, but he says he loves playing and producing for Alaskans more than anything.

The couple has picked up an interesting hobby in their retirement: researching true crime stories in Southeast Alaska’s history.

Father and son Jonas and Chris Nordwall came to Juneau from Portland to take a look at the inner workings of the only publicly available theater organ in the state.

Frank Henry Kaash Katasse is an Indigenous actor and playwright who incorporates Lingít language into plays performed on Juneau’s stages and airwaves.