Art by NW: Face to face with Jennifer Angaiak Wood’s carved masks | Cascade PBS
Meet the Yup’ik artist blending tradition with contemporary vision in carvings that reflect the smiles, smirks and swerves of human emotion.| Cascade PBS
Meet the Yup’ik artist blending tradition with contemporary vision in carvings that reflect the smiles, smirks and swerves of human emotion.| Cascade PBS
Jennifer Angaiak Wood is an artist of Yup’ik, Irish and Italian descent, and was born and raised in Fairbanks, AK. The Yup’ik side of her family comes from Tununak, AK, on the coast of the Bering Sea. Jennifer started carving masks when she took an Alaskan Native Art class in high school, and she has been mostly self-taught after the unexpected passing of her teacher, Ron Manook. Since moving to the Seattle area in 2015, she has met and worked with other artists, who are helping her learn...| Stonington Gallery
