Learn to Weave with Artist Lily Hope

LEARN TO WEAVE TRADITIONAL RAVENSTAIL TEXTILES FROM RENOWNED ALASKA NATIVE ARTIST LILY HOPE
Lily Hope, Tlingit of the Raven, T’akdeintaan clan, is a distinguished artist and community leader born and raised on Lingit Aani. She is a Chilkat weaver in the lineage of Jennie Thlunaut and Clarissa Rizal who teaches weaving online and holds weekly space for weavers across the nation to study Ravenstail and Chilkat techniques. Each one of her ceremonial Chilkat dancing blankets, all finger-twined, adapted formline masterworks, take years to complete. They document inheritance, our nation’s current crises, and political issues. She’s also a paper collage artist, bead-worker, button-robe maker, Indigenous fashion designer, and award-winning native storyteller.

Lily’s work is collected by Smithsonian Renwick, Burke Museum, Museum of Nature and Man (Germany), The Eiteljorg, Alaska State Museum, and numerous other museums, as well as private collections, including those of Jeffry Gibson and Bob and Rita Moore. She advocates ardently for artists and the arts. Her creative collaborations and ideas contribute to a rich artistic community for artists in Alaska and beyond. View her work in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023 through March 2024 in Washington, DC. Lily lives in Douglas, Alaska, with her five children.

Score a coveted pair of handwoven Lily Hope earrings

From material selection to luxurious packaging to her lifetime replacement policy,* Lily’s earrings have been compared to “Indigenous Tiffany^TM” treasures. They are wearable Alaska Native fine art for every person to enjoy.

Learn to Weave or Shop for Earrings lilyhope.com/shop

*Lifetime replacement policy only applies to woven earrings when correct warp and weft colors remain available.