Kelsey Aho
@geoartwork.bsky.social
river art, maps and plants in Alaska and western Balkans
www.geoart.work
www.geoart.work
🔥⚱️ This Friday, come touch art made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire @uafairbanks.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🔥⚱️ This Friday, come touch art made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire @uafairbanks.bsky.social
Reposted by Kelsey Aho
We really wanted to capture the sometimes complicated Thanksgiving holiday from a Native perspective on Molly of Denali, including the values of gratitude and family/clan our cultures have always been lead by. And now the episode of Emmy-nominated!
#thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth
#thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth
Molly of Denali FULL EPISODE | Truth, Trust, and Harvest/Thanks-For-Giving | PBS KIDS
YouTube video by PBS KIDS
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We really wanted to capture the sometimes complicated Thanksgiving holiday from a Native perspective on Molly of Denali, including the values of gratitude and family/clan our cultures have always been lead by. And now the episode of Emmy-nominated!
#thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth
#thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth
test tiles of two clays from Fairbanks, AK
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
test tiles of two clays from Fairbanks, AK
The Fairbanks Pottery Guild poured play and wit into the Bear Gallery this month, and two of the mugs are made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire!
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Fairbanks Pottery Guild poured play and wit into the Bear Gallery this month, and two of the mugs are made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire!
Tea strainers shaped like summer flora. Partially vitrified so that each use can deepen the flavor.
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tea strainers shaped like summer flora. Partially vitrified so that each use can deepen the flavor.
Reposted by Kelsey Aho
once you start seeing cars as cockroaches scuttling and infesting the city it’s hard to go back 🪳
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
once you start seeing cars as cockroaches scuttling and infesting the city it’s hard to go back 🪳
At today's pottery critique of each other's historic and contemporary pieces, a person introduced their sculpture of a woman with "I made a woman, because women are contemporary".
a woman is sitting on a pottery wheel with the great canadian pottery throw down written on the bottom
ALT: a woman is sitting on a pottery wheel with the great canadian pottery throw down written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
At today's pottery critique of each other's historic and contemporary pieces, a person introduced their sculpture of a woman with "I made a woman, because women are contemporary".
Dis/comfort exhibition is open!
There's sub-arctic clay on display. There's sub-arctic clay urging you to get your hands dirty.
There's sub-arctic clay on display. There's sub-arctic clay urging you to get your hands dirty.
October 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Dis/comfort exhibition is open!
There's sub-arctic clay on display. There's sub-arctic clay urging you to get your hands dirty.
There's sub-arctic clay on display. There's sub-arctic clay urging you to get your hands dirty.
Join Vanessa Raymond and me this afternoon on KSUA 91.5 FM at 4pm Alaska for an hour of "Them Thar Hills".
We're chatting about post-mining river restoration. Featuring music of up(Yukon)river and downriver fiddlers.
We're chatting about post-mining river restoration. Featuring music of up(Yukon)river and downriver fiddlers.
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Join Vanessa Raymond and me this afternoon on KSUA 91.5 FM at 4pm Alaska for an hour of "Them Thar Hills".
We're chatting about post-mining river restoration. Featuring music of up(Yukon)river and downriver fiddlers.
We're chatting about post-mining river restoration. Featuring music of up(Yukon)river and downriver fiddlers.
good reminder that many of these "permanent" Alaska Native settlements were established in the 1950s at locations determined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers based on barge accessibility
One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com
One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon
Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.
alaskabeacon.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
good reminder that many of these "permanent" Alaska Native settlements were established in the 1950s at locations determined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers based on barge accessibility
Bomb threat at UAF. Working from home where the sun shines on the glaze made with ash from the recent bonanza creek fire.
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Bomb threat at UAF. Working from home where the sun shines on the glaze made with ash from the recent bonanza creek fire.
Two of the samples had > 50% clay. Let's make some test tiles!
In the lab measuring what percentage of Alaska soils are clay. 🌈 The colors!
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Two of the samples had > 50% clay. Let's make some test tiles!
did you hear the geese this morning?
September 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
did you hear the geese this morning?
In the lab measuring what percentage of Alaska soils are clay. 🌈 The colors!
September 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In the lab measuring what percentage of Alaska soils are clay. 🌈 The colors!
Reposted by Kelsey Aho
Oooh. New stickers coming from our publisher! They'll be going out to Patreon supporters and with merch orders soon!
www.lifeaftercars.com
www.lifeaftercars.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Oooh. New stickers coming from our publisher! They'll be going out to Patreon supporters and with merch orders soon!
www.lifeaftercars.com
www.lifeaftercars.com
at the pottery studio, carving slip made with ash from the bonanza creek fire
September 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
at the pottery studio, carving slip made with ash from the bonanza creek fire
Have you seen these aerial photos from 1938? Folks in interior Alaska have been looking for them for years. Sharing a PDF of the poster you can find on bulletin boards here in Fairbanks, Alaska.
September 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Have you seen these aerial photos from 1938? Folks in interior Alaska have been looking for them for years. Sharing a PDF of the poster you can find on bulletin boards here in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Alaska has banned import, transport, and sale of prunus padus aka chokecherry!
August 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Alaska has banned import, transport, and sale of prunus padus aka chokecherry!
When I realized my wallet was in the car, the @aklalibrary.bsky.social librarian kindly told me she could hold the book. I shrugged and said my library card number. Her eyes got big. She did not look impressed.
🤓 Stay awesome fellow readers.
🤓 Stay awesome fellow readers.
August 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
When I realized my wallet was in the car, the @aklalibrary.bsky.social librarian kindly told me she could hold the book. I shrugged and said my library card number. Her eyes got big. She did not look impressed.
🤓 Stay awesome fellow readers.
🤓 Stay awesome fellow readers.
Edible Alaska published my short piece about the river sediment on the dinner table.
> Traditional clay containers for food storage and preparation.
> Contemporary ceramic bowls and plates for sharing meals.
> Traditional clay containers for food storage and preparation.
> Contemporary ceramic bowls and plates for sharing meals.
August 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Edible Alaska published my short piece about the river sediment on the dinner table.
> Traditional clay containers for food storage and preparation.
> Contemporary ceramic bowls and plates for sharing meals.
> Traditional clay containers for food storage and preparation.
> Contemporary ceramic bowls and plates for sharing meals.
good evening blueberry mimicker
July 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
good evening blueberry mimicker
Agnes Meyer-Brandis set up "Tea with a Tree" - a site to book a video conference with live-streamed forests from around the world. While covid might be over, she keeps the site up and running for us all: teawithatree.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Agnes Meyer-Brandis set up "Tea with a Tree" - a site to book a video conference with live-streamed forests from around the world. While covid might be over, she keeps the site up and running for us all: teawithatree.com
♥️ rad text message to wake up to! #morelovelessinvasives
July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
♥️ rad text message to wake up to! #morelovelessinvasives
Thankful that @ak-dof.bsky.social put in mechanical fuel break between that cloud and town. Also, broad use of the following fire resistant plants:
July 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Thankful that @ak-dof.bsky.social put in mechanical fuel break between that cloud and town. Also, broad use of the following fire resistant plants:
Work can be a party! We harvested wild plants - mostly invasives - for wedding aisle arrangements, bouquets, table center pieces.
DM to collaborate.
DM to collaborate.
June 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Work can be a party! We harvested wild plants - mostly invasives - for wedding aisle arrangements, bouquets, table center pieces.
DM to collaborate.
DM to collaborate.