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Allison Akootchook Warden | 2018 Launchpad Artist

ARTIST WEBSITE

Tribal Affiliation: Iñupiaq

Artistic Discipline: Artist

Anchorage, AK

Allison Akootchook Warden (Iñupiaq) is an artist living in Anchorage, AK who uses music, hip-hop, spoken word, video, and installations to create a healing, transcendent experience for her audiences. Among her recent awards, she is the recipient 2018 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship in Music, and a 2018 Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship in New Genres. She has performed around the United States, but more often in Europe. Allison is the co-leader of a traditional Iñupiaq dance group, the Kisaġvigmiut Traditional Dancers, based in Anchorage.