2025 Project Award

KC Crowley will create a series of artist books about the Kenai watershed, using natural materials harvested from the area to make woodblock prints bound into folios. He hopes to capture the feelings and moments experienced while fishing on the river, making connections with the origins, purposes and pathways of the wildlife inhabiting these wild places. 

When asked what he would like the public to know, Crowley shared that he is a “self taught artist working in traditional woodblock printing.”

(Left to right) “Kaitmai,” woodcut, 2021; “Tufted,” multi-color woodblock prints using four blocks, 2024; ‘Wetlands,” drawing, 2025, commissioned for the “Alaska Literary Field Guide.”

2021 Project Award

Crowley will create books from Alaska-based materials, reducing dependence on outside sources by using sustainably collected plants, fish skins and other elements. Hand-printed books will be unique, accessible pieces of art.