Seek and you shall find! When needing inspiration for any task at hand, you need only look around you, to find something of beauty. If you are able turn about 360 degrees. Look with your eyes, mind, and heart. What speaks to you!? For this is your inspiration! Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

Wow! Music, dancers, drummers, all gathered for the Pow Wow, friendship gathering at the Anchorage Dena'ina Center,  March 29-31.  Artist from all four directions and cultures, representing their tribes and communities, performed from noon till midnight each day!. Tebughna Foundation hosts this event annually. Special guests included RedBone, Medicine Dream, Bunny Swan and Johnny B, and so manny others. We best check the roof at the center! I have no doubt we hovered it! For more information on the gathering, go to Tebughna Foundation.Com. Chiqinik!

Today, May first, we await the song of  The Golden Crown Sparrow, giving signal to the arrival of the King Salmon, to the Kenai River.  May first, is also the day we set the Kenaitze Educational Fisheries, net. We gather on the beach, where my family and ancestors have always gathered to give thanks for this gift of  harvest. We gather to honor and celebrate this magnificent and nutritional, life giving resource! The Salmon.

The Third Annual  Friendship  Ida'ina Gathering commences Friday March 29 in Anchorage, at the Dena'ina Center. Hosted by Tabughna Foundation.  The three day event hosts drummers, dancers, cultural arts and Concert Night, Sat. March 30  featuring RedBone, Medicine Dream & Bunny Swan with Johnny B.  Addmision  to the Gathering is free  and open to the public. Friday, Saturday & Sunday, thru March 31st! A time to gather and celebrate Spring and each other!

Hello Out There! Looking for inspiration!?  I attended a program last evening,  at Kenai High Theater. Caring For The Kenai. Performances that bring community together, focusing on our youth, their education and their futures. Thank You Merrill Sikorski for continuing to inspire unity, creative thinkers, family, and industry alike gathering together with solution in mind, for seeking answers and partnerships. Yes, inspiration is everywhere in our own communities! For More info. Visit www.caringforthekenai.com

Find some Live Music this week-end!  It feels really good!! The Dinner Show was a huge success! What a talented and brilliant Artist, Johnny B is! we will be on stage again Saturday night in Anchorage, at he Dena'in Center. We are opening for Red Bone. Its danceable folks! Lets Dance in spring! Hope to see you out! BSG

How does it go? March-In like a Lion and out like a Lamb! For those of us receiving the White Fluffy Stuff  for Spring.  Not to fret.. keeping that top layer fresh & white! It Brightens your path! And its not staying! Think about Spring treasures appearing from under the winter's blanket! Enjoy!

Help others with words of encouragement. Help out wherever you can! Give someone your chair. If someone drops an item, do what you can to pick it up for them. This is giving of yourself. Practice, you'll be great at it! Its Fun!

Artworks Alaska is "Live", and looking forward to promoting original works of Art. If you do not see what you need, consider custom options.  Contact us or call us here in Alaska (Phone No. located in About Us)  Spring into "Spring" with  artful treasure! Music or an awesome new Jiggi pet collar!

Please consider if you will, a large volume of  materials involved in packaging and shipping. Bags of air, bubbles, foam, and cardboard varieties,  traveling to and from destinations supporting and securing treasure. With that said, I wish you to know here at Artworks Alaska Gallery,  We Recycle  Shipping Materials! When you receive an order from us, the exterior  packaging may not be visually what you may be expecting.  Look for our return address and know , inside this package, your Art will be  handsomely wrapped with care and safety in mind!

If  I give to you these items, white paper,  blueberries,  red cotton string, a wire hanger, black tea leaves, and a candle,  the task being to create, utilizing these items together, what would be your first thoughts? Endless posibilites, stumped, too busy, too messy, thrilled for a challenge, don't have the time!? Our imagination is our best way to a bright future! Challenge yourself  to use only what you have available at the time, and make something. Any size, any shape, eatable, useable, or simply for entertainment, and then share it with a friend! This can be a very rewarding experience!

Do you remember  when a picture from you, made by your own little hands, brought delight and joy, to your Mom's face? Do you now experience this with your own child's gift, created with innosence and love. Mother's day is just around the corner, think paper, scissors & glue, colors too. Make and present her a card,  just from you!! And if that simply will not do, find something special with us!