In June 2026, SCS invited multi-disciplinary Unangax̂ artist Liz Morrow to Sea Pony Farm for a week of creating art and helping us use and develop a maintenance program for Sea Pony Press’s etching press.  

Liz was raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she spent most childhood days playing in the wilderness, snowmachining on snowy iced-over lakes, flying with her Dad in his Cessna 180 floatplane, and unsurprisingly: making art. She is enrolled with Naknek Native Village, where her grandfather was born and raised and where generations of her family have commercial fished in Bristol Bay.

A vibrant printmaker, muralist, writer, and interior designer now based in Tacoma, Washington, Liz incorporates her heritage into her craft, including relief printing and graphic design. 

Her work focuses on exploring ideas of home, nature, place, identity, and rootedness, often involving an interplay between bold, graphic visuals depicting plant and animal life, and text and typographical elements. Liz primarily works in linoleum relief printmaking, as well as wood carving and acrylic painting. In addition to her studio work, she also creates public art work from murals and sculptures, to light art.

When reflecting on the past few years of her artistic journey and recent time spent in Southeast Alaska, Liz writes:

“There’s something that feels so clarifying for me artistically when I’m in SE Alaska. While I didn’t grow up there, I spent a fair amount of time visiting family as a kid and now as an adult I’m in Sitka at least once a year.

When I returned to my art in 2023 I felt a floundering when it came to my style. I had committed to simply creating regardless of if it was good or not or if it felt right or not, just making my body move in an art-making way. When I traveled to Sitka in 2024 for my son Jack’s first year at Sitka Fine Arts Camp, I gave myself a mini artist residency and made my first wonky Raven. For the first time I felt a spark of my own style and my own art. And each year I return, I feel that style growing and refining.”

 

Before her residency at Sea Pony Farm, Liz hosted a printmaking station at Sitka's Porch Fest, where visitors to SCS's booth could print and take home a copy of a special print Liz crafted for this event. It features the following quote by Richard Nelson: 

"It is the ancient wisdom of birds that battles are best fought with song."

During her residency at Sea Pony Farm, the two pieces Liz created “are the next evolution of my work and I’m really happy and proud of what I’m creating these days. I’m making art! My art! Art that feels recognizably “Liz!” Truly a dream.”

 

“Connection” – Liz was inspired to make this piece when thinking about Sitka Conservation Society’s work to connect people to the Tongass National Forest. 

 

 

“Low tide” – inspired by a walk on the beaches of Lisianski Inlet near Sea Pony Farm that were coated in chartreuse fucus.  

 

Additionally, Liz is a participant in the Sea Pony Press Public Lands Poster Show currently up at Harbor Mountain Brewing in Sitka. Her poster features two ravens and says "The Tongass is Sacred." 

When reflecting on why she created this design for her poster, Liz writes:

"There is just so much that could be said - so much teeming life, such a vast ecosystem, a landscape so important not only to local communities but the planet as a whole. How do you boil it all down into a single poster? How do you communicate how important this place is?

Not only is the Tongass sacred to indigenous communities that have stewarded the land since time immemorial, it should be sacred to all of us. When we treat something as sacred, we protect it, we recognize its importance not just as something that sustains us but as a living entity of its own. We live in partnership with it, honoring the life cycles and balances present within the land.

A note on ravens: Three years ago while I was in Sitka on my own personal mini artist residency, I sat in my favorite spot to drink coffee and sketched the first one of my ravens. They haven’t stopped showing up in my work since then and it felt appropriate for them to show up in this piece about protecting one of their most important habitats. Ravens themselves have a mythical sacred presence - they show up over and over again in Indigenous stories and art."

To view and follow along with Liz’s art installations and printmaking work:

 Liz Morrow Studios website or her @liz.morrow Instagram account.