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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Alaskans, what are we thinking about the recent use of drones to release silver iodide flares to generate 19 million gallons of rain on the Kenai peninsula?

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🎡♻️🔂 When the buzzword "scale" is used, I hear "one-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which [are] incessantly and monopolistically repeated."

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Early morning art delivery: wearable boreal forest plant guide!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Cliff swallows, protected under the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, call the Moose Creek Dam in Fairbanks home.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Coming soon: mural in Anchorage, AK Painted in true color and then again in primary hues, before this b/w version held my eye. #ricerootseason

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Passerbys loudly announced that this would slow down traffic. Fairbanks asphalt art for the win!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🇭🇷⚽Scoured the apartment for Croatia gear for today's game. Came up with: - black croatian fish shirts - black Zagreb Harley Davidson shirt - 10 ft flag Hmm "what would my mom do?". She'd wear the flag.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Five years running and Bluesky is still my go to for smoke and air quality in interior Alaska dailyruns.airfire.org#2026-06-22/1...

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy solstice! Love ambling the big hills of interior Alaska with botanists compelled to slowly observe plant after plant.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🌸🌼🪻Asphalt art in Fairbanks on June 27. All are welcome! fastplanning.us/tgfx/

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

good morning for spray painting skis, paint marker-ing ski prototypes, and a father's day card

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Art on the front page of today's Fairbanks Daily News-Miner! The message? Rivers start in two places: 1) where raindrops fall and 2) our stormdrains.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

One week away! My theme for this year's storm drain is "do as the sundew".

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This Yukon river map is at 4:45 in youtu.be/Kqt0Ubbm3QE. Would you call it a custom scroll map? Ribbon map?

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

To get to a friend's wedding, we biked and sketched and slept along the donau and dunaj and duna. Ate wild spring plants like bärlauch.

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day, especially to the moms who bike!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What some folks call "summer", I call mural season. One of the first acts, its painting storm drains. This year, on June 6th. All are welcome! Submit an idea by 23 May to www.tvwatershed.org/enterstormdr...

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Empty bowls! In Fairbanks on Saturday, April 4th. Doors open at 11am.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Received a request for a custom ski design/paint of "interior Alaska lichen and mosses". This is what the research process looks like. Design is up next!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

For those working on their #NenanaIceClassic guesses, this is what the snow pack is looking like in Fairbanks:

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

"after air and water, clay is the most abundant substance on earth" is written in this "field guide for deeply noticing" by John Michael Kohler Arts Center. Alaska clay is #15!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🌞❄️ love snowshoeing? join me for lunchtime rambles that try to connect sidewalks and bus stops.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Why are morning temperatures not included in that days high/low temps? e.g., lowest hourly temp forec. for Fri in Fairbanks is "-24°F". Daily low listed for Fri is "-32". "-32" is forec. for 8 am on Sat. Daily low listed for Sat is "-15" 🤷🏻‍♀️ @climatologist49.bsky.social @alaskawx.bsky.social

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

wearable native plant guide for winter trails in Alaska

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

spray paint was 75% off last week at Ace

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 05/02/2026

While in the Legislature, Kreiss-Tomkins was a member of the bipartisan, bicameral fiscal working group that in 2021 drafted a plan intended to bring the state’s finances in line over the long term.

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Alaska’s race for governor picks up 16th candidate, a former state legislator from Sitka

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is the third Democrat to enter the race to replace incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

standing together on the right side of the road

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Huge Salamander @feldsparmander.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Ethical consumption under capitalism

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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

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The Companies Behind ICE

Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Entertained by how awkward our town looks on this @alaskaairlines.bsky.social promo. Tourists, its yours for just 16,500 miles: unlocked.atmosrewards.com/listings/da6...

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

reminder that art friends come/came first *use of pottery in Europe: 21,000 to 25,000 BC **use of writing in Europe: 3,500 BC

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Community art critique last night got us thinking about what we want to do more of next year: a) sharing local clays with potters in Interior Alaska, b) building clay pitchers and holders for Brita filters, c) mixing ash glazes from wildland fires.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🔥⚱️ This Friday, come touch art made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire @uafairbanks.bsky.social

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Vera Starbard @verastarbard.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

We really wanted to capture the sometimes complicated Thanksgiving holiday from a Native perspective on Molly of Denali, including the values of gratitude and family/clan our cultures have always been lead by. And now the episode of Emmy-nominated! #thanksgiving #nativeamericanheritagemonth

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Molly of Denali FULL EPISODE | Truth, Trust, and Harvest/Thanks-For-Giving | PBS KIDS

YouTube video by PBS KIDS

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

test tiles of two clays from Fairbanks, AK

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The Fairbanks Pottery Guild poured play and wit into the Bear Gallery this month, and two of the mugs are made with ash from the 2025 Bonanza Creek fire!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Tea strainers shaped like summer flora. Partially vitrified so that each use can deepen the flavor.

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the moon report 🌖 @seachanger.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

once you start seeing cars as cockroaches scuttling and infesting the city it’s hard to go back 🪳

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

At today's pottery critique of each other's historic and contemporary pieces, a person introduced their sculpture of a woman with "I made a woman, because women are contemporary".

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a woman is sitting on a pottery wheel with the great canadian pottery throw down written on the bottom

ALT: a woman is sitting on a pottery wheel with the great canadian pottery throw down written on the bottom

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dis/comfort exhibition is open! There's sub-arctic clay on display. There's sub-arctic clay urging you to get your hands dirty.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Join Vanessa Raymond and me this afternoon on KSUA 91.5 FM at 4pm Alaska for an hour of "Them Thar Hills". We're chatting about post-mining river restoration. Featuring music of up(Yukon)river and downriver fiddlers.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

good reminder that many of these "permanent" Alaska Native settlements were established in the 1950s at locations determined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers based on barge accessibility

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Bomb threat at UAF. Working from home where the sun shines on the glaze made with ash from the recent bonanza creek fire.

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Two of the samples had > 50% clay. Let's make some test tiles!

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

did you hear the geese this morning?

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Kelsey Aho @geoartwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In the lab measuring what percentage of Alaska soils are clay. 🌈 The colors!

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