
This year’s Rasmuson Distinguished Artist award winner Anna Brown Ehlers is technically from Juneau, but the Tlingit weaver says the roots of her Chilkat weaving are in Klukwan, where she learned her trade and where she still owns a house.
“I always feel like I’m home right there,” said Ehlers in a phone interview from Juneau.
Ehlers’ parents were from the village on the Chilkat River, her mother from the…

