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Ms. Allie High is a Northwest Coast Indian maskmaker, printmaker, designer and silversmith.

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Allie High
Biography

Allie High is a Tsimpshian Raven, Haida and
Aleut. Allie’s family is from Metlakatla, Alaska and Masset, British Columbia.
She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Texas and a bachelor’s degree
in art education from the University of Oregon. She has taught art in the public
schools, in universities in Alaska and Louisiana and has been an artist in
residence as well as an instructor in museums.

Ms. High apprenticed with
Tsimpshian master carver Jack Hudson beginning in 1984. The first time she saw
one of Jack’s masks and held it in her hands she knew what she wanted to make
and to this day Allie is particularly drawn to carving the subtleties of women’s
faces. Classes with Nathan Jackson, Marvin Oliver, Bill Holm, Delores Churchill
and Steve Brown have provided her with additional resources. She is grateful for
the challenges each of these instructors provided.

Alaska Airlines, the
Anchorage Historical and Fine Art Museum, the United States Department of
Agriculture, Alaska State Parks and many private interests have purchased
Allie’s artwork. She has also made masks for Northwest Coast Indian theater
presentations.

Allie resides in Wrangell, Alaska- a small island
community in Southeast Alaska with her son, three cats and a dog. Along with the
rich Tlingit cultural examples in Wrangell, Allie’s designs and carvings are
inspired by her physical proximity to the ocean and forest. There is so much to
anticipate- the return of the Killer whales (her grandfather’s clan) as they
pass close to her ocean side home or the otter’s as they come to play in the
beach inlet. Allie also finds inspiration through the reading of Northwest Coast
Mythology (the Raven myths are a favorite bedtime story for her son). Some of
her masks, especially those that depict strong emotions such as joy or sorrow
are based on personal experiences. Allie’s work is represented by The Stonington Gallery in Seattle,
Washington.