Alaska artist Joel Isaak, fish skin designer

Alaska artist Joel Isaak, fish skin designer

Joel Isaak’s latest medium might surprise you. The Athabascan artist and fashion designer’s most recent work is a collection of pieces made with fish skin leather.

The designs debuted at the “Wear Art, Thou?” fashion show last week, an event put on by the Alaska Native Arts Foundation to help showcase work by Alaska Native artists, and to “bridge the gap between the art world, the Native art world, and people in general,” according to Isaak.
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