Kelsey Aho

"If a thousand [wo]men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood". - Thoreau (1849)

spray paint was 75% off last week at Ace

Alaska’s race for governor picks up 16th candidate, a former state legislator from Sitka Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is the third Democrat to enter the race to replace incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

While in the Legislature, Kreiss-Tomkins was a member of the bipartisan, bicameral fiscal working group that in 2021 drafted a plan intended to bring the state’s finances in line over the long term.

standing together on the right side of the road

Ethical consumption under capitalism

The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

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Entertained by how awkward our town looks on this @alaskaairlines.bsky.social promo. Tourists, its yours for just 16,500 miles: unlocked.atmosrewards.com/listings/da6...

reminder that art friends come/came first

*use of pottery in Europe: 21,000 to 25,000 BC
**use of writing in Europe: 3,500 BC

Community art critique last night got us thinking about what we want to do more of next year:

a) sharing local clays with potters in Interior Alaska,
b) building clay pitchers and holders for Brita filters,
c) mixing ash glazes from wildland fires.

🔥⚱️ This Friday, come touch art made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire @uafairbanks.bsky.social

YouTube video by PBS KIDS Molly of Denali FULL EPISODE | Truth, Trust, and Harvest/Thanks-For-Giving | PBS KIDS

We really wanted to capture the sometimes complicated Thanksgiving holiday from a Native perspective on Molly of Denali, including the values of gratitude and family/clan our cultures have always been lead by. And now the episode of Emmy-nominated!

#thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth

test tiles of two clays from Fairbanks, AK

The Fairbanks Pottery Guild poured play and wit into the Bear Gallery this month, and two of the mugs are made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire!

When a fed, we were diligent about collating gov emails for FOIA requests. If you can, give the office(s) time. I know two FOIA people that retired earlier this year and their positions are still vacant.

Tea strainers shaped like summer flora. Partially vitrified so that each use can deepen the flavor.

once you start seeing cars as cockroaches scuttling and infesting the city it’s hard to go back 🪳

a woman is sitting on a pottery wheel with the great canadian pottery throw down written on the bottom ALT: a woman is sitting on a pottery wheel with the great canadian pottery throw down written on the bottom

At today's pottery critique of each other's historic and contemporary pieces, a person introduced their sculpture of a woman with "I made a woman, because women are contemporary".

Dis/comfort exhibition is open!

There's sub-arctic clay on display. There's sub-arctic clay urging you to get your hands dirty.

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Join Vanessa Raymond and me this afternoon on KSUA 91.5 FM at 4pm Alaska for an hour of "Them Thar Hills".

We're chatting about post-mining river restoration. Featuring music of up(Yukon)river and downriver fiddlers.

good reminder that many of these "permanent" Alaska Native settlements were established in the 1950s at locations determined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers based on barge accessibility

checked out the nonprofit. rad restoration!

Bomb threat at UAF. Working from home where the sun shines on the glaze made with ash from the recent bonanza creek fire.

Two of the samples had > 50% clay. Let's make some test tiles!

did you hear the geese this morning?

In the lab measuring what percentage of Alaska soils are clay. 🌈 The colors!

at the pottery studio, carving slip made with ash from the bonanza creek fire

Have you seen these aerial photos from 1938? Folks in interior Alaska have been looking for them for years. Sharing a PDF of the poster you can find on bulletin boards here in Fairbanks, Alaska.