Friends of SJM 2024 Annual Meeting, April 3, 2024

Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum Annual Meeting with a presentation from the Director of Alaska State Libraries, Archives & Museums and Guest Speaker Chuna McIntyre (Yup’ik).
Chuna McIntyre is a Yup’ik garment maker, painter, storyteller, and cultural expert. Born in Eek, a small village on the coast of the Bering Sea, McIntyre learned traditional Yup’ik dance, stories, and songs from his grandmother. He later founded and directed the Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers & Dancers, a troupe that has traveled the world. In 2007, he was an artist demonstrator at the Sheldon Jackson Museum and in 2019 the Sheldon Jackson Museum brought him back for a consultation project focusing on documenting the Yup’ik mask collection.