With support from the California Arts Council, and involvement from local Indigenous, Alaska Native, and non-Native participants, MakeAccess will build a nigilax̂, an Unangax̂ open skin boat. While building, Wiyot and Unangax̂ voices will share their unique California-based histories. The finished vessel will be used for engaging with Nature.
We educate and mentor through curiosity driven hands-on making. Most classes involve wood-working and traditional boat building. We work mainly with the Unangax̂ Tribes of the Pribilof and Aleutian Islands of Alaska facilitating cultural revitalization through an apprenticeship program wherein we lead traditional boat-building projects in the Unangax̂ villages of Alaska and in our workshop in Ferndale, California. All of these workshops involve a great degree of bridging the non-Native community with Native community.

