The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 36th annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Megan A. Smetzer for her book Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, ...
purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. "For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, ...
In the late 1990s, Megan Smetzer was an art history graduate student at Williams College in Massachusetts who hadn’t yet settled on a topic for her thesis. Having grown up in Fairbanks, she was ...
Her long, synthetic hair cascades over her fuzzy Chilkat blanket, her headband mimics a tiara and she has those permanently high-heeled feet _ she's Tlingit Barbie! Yes, Mattel Corp. has come out with ...