We’re excited to announce our 2024 partnership with The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, a Native-led, national nonprofit that advances equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and promote positive social change with American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the United States.
We hope that you will use this calendar as an opportunity to explore Native arts and cultures to provoke thought, spark discussion, explore solutions, and add a vital contribution to our communities and world. You can order the calendar absolutely free by jumping on our list HERE.
ursala hudson | B&B Calendar January Featured artist
Ursala Hudson is a Tlingit weaver, printmaker, painter, photographer and writer. After a twenty-year career in freelance graphic design, Hudson’s fiber art practice and Indigenous couture fashion designs draw on the calculated, bold, and innovative practices of her digital art background. She primarily works in the hand-twining wool-around wool artform of Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving styles from her ancestral homeland in Southeast Alaska.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Kadusné Ceremonial Regalia involves weaving a full collection of regalia with each piece crafted according to the techniques, customs, design principles, and spiritual practices of Northwest Coast Chilkat and Ravenstail weaving.
Featured on the January calendar is Tideland Warrior, featuring a woven shrug, belt, and headband, foundational regalia garments made by Ursala from Merino wool, cedar bark, leather, silk, mother-of-pearl, feathers, and goat fur.
Print details: This calendar page is printed on the Xerox Iridess Digital Press using the CMYK process, plus special clear and gold toners on Titan dull cover.
About Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is a Native-led, national nonprofit dedicated to advancing equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and promote positive social change with American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the United States.
Learn more on their website and follow them on Instagram.
About B&B
B&B Print Source is a full-service Portland-area commercial printer, specializing in signage and large format projects, promotional items and corporate apparel, direct mail, and high-quality packaging that pops. Our collective talent, experience, and investment in technology allow us to produce award-winning projects year after year. We focus on results, and we strive to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.
This gorgeous calendar doubles as a sample packet! Request one today.