The Rasmuson Foundation announced their list of Individual Artist awardees, and eight Juneau projects made the list. The 50 total awards go to artists across the state, who will receive $10,000 each toward a project they have planned.

For Juneau-based artists like CJ Harrell, the grants support deeply personal projects. Harrell plans to make block print portraits depicting a dozen of the Southcentral Alaska homes they lived in growing up.

First, they plan to travel to see the homes as they are now, and meet the current residents. The grant helps pay for that. Harrell said that gives them confidence to take on the project.

“I realized, like, oh man, this would take me years to save up for otherwise and even that,” they said. “Like, I don’t know if I would be brave enough to do this if I

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