Aywaa Creative

Torin Jacobs, aka RiverFlowz, was born into the community of Mamterilleq (Bethel). While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he began exploring his talent for music making, first through rap, then by blending sounds from his cultural background in beatmaking.

Ryan’s work is deeply rooted in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Y-K Delta) where his ancestors made their home. His paintings and printmaking are inspired from experiences, stories and folklore from the Y-K Delta, capturing nomadic lifestyles as they exist in contemporary Alaska and weaving in indigenous values and knowledge along the way.

I am a poet, retracing Iñupiat creative traditions. I am passionate about individual and collective healing through the rejection of colonial ideologies and lifestyles, and a return to our languages, homelands, and subsistence values

James is a Northern Cheyenne contemporary visual artists and muralist. He loves to alternate areas of organic movement with linear ribbons and patterns of richly variegated hues representing his Native American heritage.

Howdice Brown III is a filmmaker of Iñupiaq descent who’s family comes from Elim, Alaska. A graduate of UAA, he has spent the last 10 years in the commercial film and documentary industry.

Drew and his twin brother were born in Bethel and raised in Eagle River, Alaska. He started carving at age 13. He learned from archeologist Bob Shaw, printmaker Joe Senungetuk, and contemporary Athabascan mask-maker, Kathleen Carlo.

Apay’uq Moore is a Yup’ik artist from Bristol Bay. Painting is her primary art form. She is inspired by the outdoors and the Indigenous ways of life. She works to communicate the best parts of her culture and advance the understanding of Indigenous values as it relates to the current world.

Writer, director, filmmaker, Anna Hoover produces documentary, fiction and art films via her home state of Alaska. Inspired by the natural world and the beauty it provides, Hoover can often be found outdoors, beach walking, x-country skiing, ice skating, whatever the season may encourage.