In the wet wilderness of Lisianski Inlet, something whimsical has awakened...
Eric and Pam Bealer were renowned Alaskan artists and committed community members inspired by the natural world around them. In 2018, the Bealers entrusted their unique off-grid homestead (Sea Pony Farm) near Pelican, to the Sitka Conservation Society’s Living Wilderness Fund, asking SCS to protect the lands they fiercely loved.
After seven years of silence, Eric Bealer’s remote printing presses are rolling once more. Reborn as Sea Pony Press, they now carry forward a legacy of joy, resistance, and creative defiance in the heart of the Tongass National Forest.
Through workshops, residencies, and collaborations, Sea Pony Press is building a colorful community committed to the Tongass and our unique ways of life— forged through acts of creative expression.
Four Ways to Join Sea Pony Press
Help Sea Pony Press answer the world’s bickering with: levity, wonder, and the defiance of making! Fill out this Google Form if any of the following interest you!
- Join the Community: Stay updated with collaborations, events, art sales, and opportunities through social media and our email newsletter.
- Creative Residencies: We invite artists, writers, wood workers, printmakers, musicians, storytellers, scientists, community leaders, and conservation advocates to reach out regarding our creative residency program at Sea Pony Farm– our unique off-grid homestead located in Lisianski Inlet, near the community of Pelican.
- Collaborations & Workshops: Have an idea for a collaborative project or want to lead a creative workshop in a Southeast Alaska community?
- Support: Help us reach our annual goal of 10K to support creative programming at the intersection of art and wilderness. Become a Patron of Sea Pony Press and your financial contributions will support creative residencies, workshops, community art projects, maintaining the printing presses, and the ongoing revival of the Bealers’ legacy. Annual commitments of $500+ will receive a yearly limited edition print and our letter pressed manifesto, both pulled from Sea Pony Press.
Sea Pony Press is a project of the Living Wilderness Fund. With support from the Sustainable Southeast Partnership and the Richard L & Diane M Block Foundation.
Illustrating our love for the Tongass - the inaugural collaborative project of Sea Pony Press
These collaborative art posters celebrate a love for the Tongass National Forest and Public Lands. Representing different artists, they feature original mixed media works on letter-pressed posters from the late Eric Bealer’s revived historic Vandercook No. 3 printing press at Sea Pony Farm, posters illustrate appreciation for the lands and waters that unite us.
You can still make a poster! This is an ongoing project, and we still have posters to illustrate. We plan to rotate this growing show throughout Southeast Alaska.
Reach out to [email protected] to grab a blank poster or with ideas to collaborate or host a showing.
