Creativity in Teaching Project Manager Contract Available

Extension of the Deadline to September 10, 2026

The Alaska State Council on the Arts is seeking qualified individuals for the contracted role of Creativity in Teaching Project Manager. Creativity in Teaching is an initiative which seeks to grow teacher cohort partnerships in and through Alaska’s arts and cultures. This is a three-year project - the first year will be dedicated to project planning and years 2-3 will be dedicated to project implementation. 

The Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council announce the 2026 Runner-up and Alaska State Champion for Poetry Out Loud™.

On March 9th, (9) Alaska State Poetry Out Loud Finalists gathered for the Alaska State Competition in the Capital City of Juneau. We are proud to announce that Cassie Lumba from Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé will represent the State of Alaska for the National Competition in Washington DC as our 2026 Alaska State Poetry Out Loud Champion, April 27-29. Jasminka Jaksic of West Anchorage High School is the Runner-up for Alaska Poetry Out Loud 2026.

Vera Starbard Announced as new Alaska State Writer Laureate

Anchorage, AK – The Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA), in partnership with the Alaska Humanities Forum, is pleased to announce Vera Starbard, T’set Kwei, as the new 2024-2026 Alaska State Writer Laureate. Starbard, a Tlingit and Dena’ina playwright, magazine editor, and Emmy-nominated television writer, brings a breadth of experience and a passion for storytelling to this prestigious role. “My brief lifetime of storytelling hasn’t been enough to properly showcase the real beauty of our state, the warmth and the pain of it, the wisdom and richness inherent in our land and its people. So how exciting to think I’ll have the privilege of spending the next two years working to promote more stories from Alaska, and encourage more Alaskan storytellers,” said Starbard.