For the creatives in your life! 

The color wheel card shows a simple spectrum of the rainbow with accompanying festive names, because who does’t love candles, yule logs, and red wine?! 

Cross Stitch for the Soul is exactly what the title says. Cross stitch is a great way to take a step back, create, and be mindful with your time. Plus you’ll be left with a masterpiece! 

The Blackwing Pearl Pencil is for the sketchers out there! This pencil glides over sketch paper beautifully and does a marvelous job at shading with precision. Pop these in the Poketo pencil case to toss in your art bag (we know it’s crazy in there) so you stay organized and don’t get pigment everywhere. 

The Akimbo earring collection made of hammered brass was created to represent the beauty of Alaska and the allure of adventure. These are flying out of the jewelry cases so check out the entire collection on thekindredpostshop.com 

The stacking rock eraser is a two-in-one; cute and functional. It’s a great edition to a creative space, plus holy erasing power-these will last you a while! 

The Classic Molskine Planner for the artists that like to jot down their creative and personal plans to keep things all organized. We get you. 

‘Sorry for late reply’ pin just speaks to us. IYKYK. 

Happy Holidays!

Xoxo,

Team KP

We are now accepting applications for 2023 First Friday featured artists at Kindred Post through December 20! We love hosting artists who want to share their craft and connect with their community. We welcome artists of all kinds, in any medium, and at all experience levels.

This past year we have hosted an introduction to alcohol inks, a polaroid photo booth with hand-crocheted backgrounds, a wheel-throwing demo, linocut print-making, and more!

We are especially excited by opportunities that allow the community to interact with you and/or your work - anything that invites our neighbors to participate / make / take / play together, etc. To honor the additional labor and imagination involved in such projects, we offer small stipends ($75 check OR a $100 gift certificate) to support this work.

Artists interested in having a pop-up shop at Kindred Post are encouraged to apply for First Friday, but are ineligible for the stipend unless there is an added interactive element to the event.

We cannot wait to give you a space to share your work with the world!

If interested fill out this application. If this isn't for you, forward this to an artist you know. 

**All positions have been filled; thank you for your interest.**

Come join our team! At Kindred Post, we foster connection between art and community in order to cultivate a sense of belonging in our neighborhood and beyond. We’re a creative, quirky workplace rooted in art, community, and social justice. And we care very much about the people who work with us! Our team is fun, friendly, and hard-working - with each person making their unique mark on this big, beautiful world. Retail experience is not necessary; we are happy to train the right people! We can't wait to meet you!

OPEN POSITIONS

Retail Specialist (FT or PT)

This full-time or part-time, year-round Retail Specialist position assists in the general operations of Kindred Post. This position carries out basic duties in retail transactions, product management, sales, and event staffing. Retail Specialists assist with curating and ordering, as well as styling photos for media use as well. Candidate must possess ability to provide excellent customer service, pay attention to detail, work effectively and efficiently in a busy atmosphere, and have fun! Pay starts at $15/hr. Full position description here: Retail Specialist  

Visual Merchandising Lead (FT or PT)

The Visual Merchandising Lead is a permanent position that assists in the general operations of Kindred Post, and plays an integral and creative role in the company's visual merchandising. This person works in collaboration with KP's leadership team to plan, design, and implement creative and strategic displays across the store (shop displays, window displays, signage, etc). The ideal candidate will have experience making displays, a reputation for meeting deadlines, a strong eye for aesthetics, and the ability to apply sales numbers and trends to their designs. This position also carries out basic duties in retail transactions, product management, and sales. Pay starts at $16/hour. Full position description here: Visual Merchandising Lead.

TO APPLY:

Please send ONE HAIKU, a RESUME, and a LETTER that tells us about yourself and why you'd be a good fit for Kindred Post. Send applications and questions to us at [email protected].

Positions remain open until we find the right fit! We will update this post when positions have been filled. 

Kindred Post is so happy to be a part of this year’s statewide postcard competition! Each year we relish in the beauty, creativity, and amazing community we have here in Alaska. It is always a joy to promote artists in such a personal way that shares their many perspectives. 

Read about the artists and why the postcard contest was born.

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July 15 

Today Kindred Post announced the ten winners of their statewide postcard art contest, all Alaskan artists. Each winning artist will receive $100 and their work will be printed on 1000 postcards to be featured at Kindred Post. 

The contest winners were chosen from nearly 300 submissions from across the state — representing the largest pool of submissions since the biennial contest began in 2017. Selections are made by a panel of judges composed by community members. This year's judges included Lily Ayau, Angela Cox, Tripp Crouse, Brita Fagerstrom, Jill Kaasteen, Maka Monture, and Mercedes Muñoz.

The art depicted in the submissions represented a diversity of mediums as well as identities. "What I love about this contest is it shows us the many ways Alaskans experience Alaska through their work," says Kindred Post owner Christy NaMee Eriksen. "Not only do we receive different types of art, but we receive different types of worldviews. Why people take photos of what they do, paint what they do, examine what they do - it's all influenced by their experience as women, as queer, as indigenous, as Asian Americam, etc. Of course they all have this in common: they love Alaska."

Tens of thousands of postcards are sent from Kindred Post, a post office and gift shop, each year. "I love that we get to help showcase a more inclusive picture of this place as people are visiting and writing home," Eriksen says. 

2022 Statewide Postcard Art Contest winners:

"Fungi Family" by Cammie May, who has lived on Prince of Wales Island for the majority of her life and is primarily inspired by the beautiful nature surrounding her in Southeast Alaska

"Pumphouse" by Crystal Jackson, an Iñupiaq painter, illustrator, and graphic designer from Anchorage and a recent transplant to Juneau

"Pride" by Chloey Cavanaugh, an LGBTQ+ indigenous artist and a child of the Was’ineidi Tax’Hit, Eagle Wolf clan in Kake

"Night Lights" by Christine Carpenter, an artist and designer who lives in Juneau and creates art primarily for herself as emotional therapy, but hopes you love it, too

"Girl Group" by Madelyn Boman, a 17 year old artist from Juneau

"Southeast Mushrooms" by Rebecca Hsieh, an Asian-American artist, aerialist, and educator

"Vibing Seal" by Emily Pastore, a self-taught artist living in Juneau who is constantly inspired by the nature and beauty of Southeast Alaska and is honored to be a visitor on Lingit Aani land

"Soft Lights No. 1" by Veronica Bunnies, who combines slow stitching and fun fabrics to create quilted art for modern tastes

"Chilkat Protector Masks" by Lily Wooshkindein Da.áat Hope, a Tlingit ceremonial regalia maker, prolific weaving teacher, entrepreneur, tradition bearer and enthuser for other creatives to thrive as artists, too

"Power to the People" by Jessica Thornton, a multimedia artist and community organizer living on Ahtna and Dena’ina lands in Palmer

Postcards are available for sale individually and as a set. The collection is available at their storefront at 145 South Franklin in Juneau and online at www.thekindredpostshop.com.