Virtual Artist Talk: Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Athabascan)

Join us online for dynamic conversations with Indigenous artists exploring identity, heritage, and contemporary expression.

In conjunction with the Zimmerli Art Museum’s exhibition Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Sonya Kelliher-Combs virtually joins us to discuss her artwork “Remnant (Walrus Bone IV)” and her wider mixed media art making practice.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq/Koyukon) is a mixed-media visual artist whose family hails from the North Slope and Interior of Alaska. Her work focuses on the changing North and our relationship to nature and each other. Through visual art, community engagement, curation and advocacy, Sonya works to create opportunities to feature Indigenous voices and contemporary artwork that inform and encourage social action. Traditional women's work taught her to appreciate the intimacy of intergenerational knowledge and material histories. These experiences and skills allow Sonya to examine connections between Western and Indigenous cultures. Sonya lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska.

Free & open to the public. You must register in advance for this webinar on Zoom. 

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The Zimmerli’s operations, exhibitions, and programs are funded in part by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and income from the Avenir Endowment Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Endowment Fund. Additional support comes from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the donors, members, and friends of the museum.

Generous support for bilingual text was provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund. For information on events, go to MiddlesexCountyCulture.com