When she was in grade three, Meriam Linder came up with the business name, “Wilderness Wonders” for a Yellow Pages ad activity in a class at school. In 1999, at the age of 17, she purchased that name as her official art business license and has been creating and selling her work as a full-time working artist ever since. She recently joined Homer’s Ptarmigan Arts co-op gallery as its newest member.

Marketing herself under the tag line, “tradition, material and curiosity converge in Meriam Linder’s durable, authentic artwork,” Linder is a prolific artist creating in a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, carving, jewelry, collage, bookbinding, block prints and fiber arts.

Inspired by the natural world around her as well as ancient traditional designs of Alaska’s Indigenous peop

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