Rebecca Poulson
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I grew up in Sitka, Alaska, a town of about 8000 people on the outer coast of the southeastern Alaskan archipelago. For about ten years I worked as a shipwright repairing wooden fishing boats, went to boatbuilding school in England for a year, and cofounded the Sitka Shipwrights Cooperative. I also worked occasionally as a deckhand on trollers and longliners. I learned wood engraving around 1992 from Dale DeArmond, who had just moved back to Sitka. In 1996 I started doing art and my calendar, the Outer Coast calendar of art and poetry. In 2000 I received an MFA in printmaking at Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia. I'm working on new art, and putting in a lot of time with the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society to restore a WWII marine ways as a maritime museum and WWII interpretive center. That website is www.sitkamaritime.org I'm also now working on getting more art into Sitka schools.

I also have a husband, Eric Dow, a little girl, Cora Dow, and a son Asa Dow.

Asa on a Kruzof shipwreck May '10, Cora and Asa at Sandy Beach '09, Asa rocking out '10

Eric hunting October '09, Eric Cora Asa and cousin Addie '10, Eric and Asa and Cora Bear Mountain behind, '09

Uncle Bob and Aunt Svatka's wedding '09 with cousins Tommy, Addie, Cora, Lucy, and Ariadne; me painting pictures of the chocolate lillies June '09, Cora, Lucy, Ariadne, Asa and Addie (the cousins) and Aunt Kristen at John Brown's Beach during herring '10