Ketchikan area Artists and Creatives have been inspiring the communities of this area since the beginning. Whether it is beautifully engineered and created halibut hooks, or the magnificent totem poles of the area, to the stories, poetry and drawings for the inception of the Alaska Magazine, to the creation and evolution of Wearable Art in Alaska artists continue to make the world we live in meaningful and joyful.
This page is still a work in progress and will soon contain an Artist Directory of the area artists, and a catalogue of Public Art in the Ketchikan area, plus artists' resources.
Below are the Calls to Artists listed in deadline order. Local and Regional Calls to Artists are posted as we find them. If you know of a Call that is not listed on this page, please e-mail details to info@ketchikanarts.org we would love to include it here as a resource to artists!
Culturally Responsive Understanding by Design: Alaska Native History - Registration Form
Spring 2026 | 37.5 hours over 8 weeks | 1 UAS credit | Partially synchronous | $1,300 stipend
This course offers tools and training to develop and evaluate culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogy, including a finished, high-quality unit ready to pilot. Understanding by Design teaching will coincide with content on Alaska Native History to incorporate into final unit.
Further details:
Pass/fail grading.
If seeking the 1 credit offer, YOU MUST PAY APPLICATION FEE to UAS, which is typically around $90.
$1,300 stipend for all who fully complete and pass the class, regardless of credit.
The Final Project is a short ready-to-use UbD unit.
Course starts February 16th and ends after 8 weeks on April 13th. Please make sure you are able to fully participate in the course and deliver the required final project before filling out the application.
In order to receive the stipend at the end of the course participants should meet all the course deliverables, in addition to participation in post course survey and focus group conducted by SHI grant evaluator.
*Deadline to register: January 31st, 2026
*Limited to 20 applicants
*Due to the grant guidelines this course is only offered to Southeast Alaska educators
The Main Street Gallery, a program of the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council is a nonprofit, year-round fine art exhibition space, providing opportunities the experience the arts and explore the humanities. The Gallery will host 11 exhibitions from September through August, displaying a wide variety of mediums in Solo, Group, Invitational, Curated, and Open Call exhibits from local and national artists and curators.
Prizes for adults and youth participants.
Celebration 2026 Native Market Application
Thank you for your interest in our upcoming Native Artist Market! The market is held in conjunction with SHI’s biennial Celebration event. Celebration will take place June 3-6 Juneau, Alaska. The market will begin June 4. SHI reserves the right to determine the final placement and location of vendors.
Market dates: June 4-6, 2026.
Notification Date: April 24, 2026
FEES: A $25 NON-REFUNDABLE application fee is due today (this application payment does not guarantee a vendor spot at Celebration). If selected, an additional $275 fee is due for the table. Non-payment of fees may result in exclusion from the market. If you need assistance, please contact Natasha Phillips at natasha.phillips@sealaskaheritage.com or (907)586-9167.
ELIGIBILITY
The artist must meet at least one of the following eligibility requirements:
- Alaska Natives
- Native Americans who are members of an Indian tribe or
- Alaska Native or Native American who are certified as an Indian Artisan by an Indian Tribe.
Artists must provide documents to prove that they are Alaska Native or Native American. Indian artisans must provide documentation from a tribal government certifying that the artist is endorsed as an Indian Artisan.
Market applicants must provide 3 photos of the kinds of work they intend to sell. All art sold at the Native Artist Market must be created 70% or more by hand. Participating Artists may not have had a violent crime conviction, within the last five years.
The Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council has been producing the Blueberry Arts Festival since 1975! Since that time we have supported artists as they developed their work, highlighted many, many bands, heard thousands of poems, cleaned up so many gallons of slug slime, made a gazillion blueberry pies, seen sooooo many pets and dolls, hung extraordinary art, added space for more artists, added food booths, invited other nonprofits to showcase their organizations, added booths to the Methodist Church parking lot, added booths to Main Street, seen some pretty amazing handmade, humanpowered Blueberry boats!, added booths to the City parking lot....moved to Mission, dock and Main streets.
We are able to place a little over 160 booths, and estimate at least 8000 attend the 3-day Festival.
Please join us! You won't be disappointed.
ARTISTS - applications to participate in the Blueberry Arts Festival are always opened during the Celebration of the Sea Art Walk, the first Friday of May.
