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Yukie Adams was born in Hokkaido, Japan. She studied Art history and oil painting at the Musashino art college in 1969. She then moved to Anchorage, Alaska in 1983. She married Alaska Tlingit, Henry L. Adams in 1984. She studied The Northwest coast Native Arts and Culture as a new member of the Tlingit family. In 1988, she was chosen for a purchase award at the 3rd annual Southwest Alaska Native Art Exhibit in Sitka, Alaska. She moved to Washington State the next year. She studied the Northwest coast Indian Design at University of Washington, under Marvin Oliver in 1990. Since 1990, Yukie Adams has been creating silkscreen prints, paintings and designs. After her husband Henry Adams passed away in 1994, she started the wood craving. - Yukie Adams is a shareholder of Alaska Native Corporation.
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