The film Elvel is the result of a multi-year international collaboration aimed at reviving the ancient story and supporting the revitalization of the Itelmen language and culture.

Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, hosted an art-science meeting of Northern Indigenous knowledge holders, artists, singers, dancers, and scholars from Russia, Mongolia, Canada, Estonia, and USA.

Arctic Science Summit Week 2025, Boulder, USA, hosted the exhibition “Art of Indigenous Science/Science of Indigenous Art” curated by Tatiana Degai and Vera Kuklina.

May 29 – June 3, 2024 AIVAN artists participated at the Arctic Congress, Bodo, Norway hosted by the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA).

May 2024 Quilt Ojar had its first exhibition at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.  

PennElyz Droz shared with the AIVAN group about how she crafts clothing and art to connect her and her family to their Anishnaabe roots.

Aresta Tsosie-Paddock shared with the AIVAN group her processes of quilt-making, and some guiding traditional values that inform her work as an artist and language teacher.

Kunaq or Marjorie Tahbone shared with the AIVAN group a wide range of her eclectic practices in traditional Inupiaq art.