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 also have a husband, Eric Dow, a little girl, Cora Grace Dow, born November 27, 2001, and a son: Asa James Dow, born December 10, 2003.

Cora, January 2006, Asa and Cora at the studio, March 2006, and Asa on vacation, May 2006

the cousins: Ariadne, Lucy, Cora, Addie, and Asa on Harbor Mountain June 2006, Cora and Asa March 2006