Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich is a Koyukon Athabascan and Inupiaq carver, designer, photographer and installation artist living, working and subsisting in the subarctic climate of South-Central Alaska. Honoring her arctic and subarctic ancestral homelands, Ivalu’s work represents what has tied her and her ancestors to the North. Through carved, painted, and beaded sculpture and mask forms, Ivalu creates representations of the honored wild relatives that have provided for her, her family and her ancestors since time immemorial. Continuing the viewpoint of seeing these honored wild resources as gifts given to the worthy who reciprocate respect and care for the land and wild relatives that share it. Connection to the realities of subsistence lifeways and arctic survival is vital to Ivalu’s work that honors what keeps us fed, warm and present in the North. With ancestral ties to the communities of Nulato, Nome and Utqiagvik; Ivalu currently resides between the Dena’ina Homelands of Anchorage and Cohoe, Alaska while pursuing her MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts.