Having grown up in Fairbanks, she was interested in Athabascan beadwork. So she met with Aldona Jonaitis, who was then director of the Museum of the North at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and ...

Sarah Knudsen has been beading for long enough that she says she can recognize where the artist is from in Alaska just by looking at their beadwork. “Gwich’in Athabascan beadwork is mostly ...