The collaboration includes brand names like Vans, Lib Tech Snowboards, SmartWool, Volcom, and Google.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - James Johnson is an Alaska Native artist who was born and raised in Juneau. The Tlingit creator now resides in the Lower 48 but through his work, he’s been noticed by some pretty big companies geared, in some ways, toward Alaskans.
“You dedicate your whole life to the art form and carrying it forward and that’s exactly what I’ve done and what I’m doing.” “That’s a traditional old Tlingit history of how Raven brought light into the world and with Vans we wanted to tell that story through the collection,” he said.
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