Heather Kangas

 I would like to show case the works of art found through out our great state of Alaska. Our state is vast and wide and also the works of art vary widely from one Culture to the other. I have found the works of art done in the Early 20th centuries and older to be fascinating and interesting to the meaning behind them. I've come across beautiful works of art traveling from one part of the state to the other. And each time has left me in awe of the creativeness of the people there. Life in Alaska can be very harsh and unforgiving, and to see art come through even during the hardest of times is uplifting and encouraging to myself.  Yup'ik Dance Masks Yup'ik masks - Wikipedia The Yup'ik peoples of Southwestern Alaska are my people. I've grown up learning about the dance masks I've experienced first hand in observing a dance during one of the potlatch gatherings in our home town. I remember the fear I had when the dancer first came out in front of the drummers, weari

   I want to focus this blog period on the Post Modern Era Architectures.  There are beautiful works of art formed into functioning buildings, and that is what I like the most about the Architectures.  Burj Al Arab  Burj Al Arab - Wikipedia The Burj Al Arab is a high end, seven star hotel located in Dubai, United Arab Emarites.  The structure of the hotel is to resemble that of a sail of the ship. The sail of the build was built by many architects that was led by Tom Wright. The building was started in 1994 and completed in 1999, a 5 year build for one of the most photographed hotels in the world.  This huge work of art had to pull on many engineers to complete the many wonders of its shape and location. The hotel sits on an artificial island on the coast, where the base of the island had to be created starting many meters below the waters surface. There are many luxurious features to this beautiful hotel, some of them being the helipad on the top of the building, to the tennis course,

I would like to create my blog of the Early Modern Era on The influence of The Great Depression.  I remember in grade school learning first of The Great Depression, and what an impact it held on my young mind.  To this day, it still brings back memories of old black and white pictures of families suffering during The Great Depression. I would like to focus on the Artists who were affected during this period of time. The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1933 but the lasting affects really shaped all of the 1930's. It was during the Great Depression that the Works Progress Administration (WPA), later called the Works Projects Administration, was created by the presidential orders in May 1935.  It was with this Works Projects Administration that the Federal Art Project was formed along with other Projects to include writer, theatrics, etc.  The Federal Art Project funded by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act lasted from 1935 to 1943.  This was created to hire artists for mainl