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Yup’ik Artist Annie Hurlbut Visits Mary Ellen Frank

Posted on May 13, 2011 by mefrank
Annie Hurlbut visits Aunt Claudia's Dolls, a Museum and shows us some of her current work.

My cohort dollmaker Annie Hurlbut, originally of Chevak Alaska visited me at the museum (Aunt Claudia’s Dolls) the last couple of days while she was downtown in Juneau marketing her dolls to the tourist galleries. Annie is a Yup’ik Eskimo … Continue reading →


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Mary Ellen Frank’s dollmaking & curates Alaska doll museum

Posted on November 8, 2010 by mefrank
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Mary Ellen Frank’s dollmaking & curates Aunt Claudia’s Alaska doll museum

I changed the entrance door to the relatively new museum I helped organize & now curate, Aunt Claudia’s Dolls. Good idea. In walks a great freelance writer, Geoff Kirsch, with a keen interest in people and their undertakings. He meandered about, talking to me while his daughter got her hair trimmed, wrote the story up for the local rag. I just about fell over when I saw the photo! It took up half the page in the Sunday paper. Never saw such a large photo in that paper. Follow this link to the story in my local paper, the Juneau Empire.

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