Ronald Senungetuk
Ronald Senungetuk was an Iñupiaq artist originally from Wales, Alaska, who worked primarily in wood and metal.Career
He was a sculptor and silversmith and was known for his abstractions of animal figures. He trained at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology and in Oslo, Norway, on a Fulbright Fellowship at Statens Håndværks og Kunstindustriskole. He and his wife, Turid, an accomplished silversmith, lived in Homer.
Senungetuk started the University of Alaska Fairbanks' metalsmithing program and served as director of its Native Art Center. He received the Rasmuson Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Artist Award, and received many other awards and recognitions for his work.
