About Rebecca Poulson

I grew up in Sitka, Alaska, a town of fewer than 9,000 people on the outer coast of the southeastern Alaskan archipelago. For about ten years I worked as a shipwright repairing wooden fishing boats, went to boatbuilding school in England for a year, and cofounded the Sitka Shipwrights Cooperative. I also worked as a deckhand on trollers and long liners.

My blog at www.sitkaartblog.wordpress.com has my art, theater set designs, book reviews, and lots of history articles.

I learned wood engraving from Dale DeArmond, and I received an MFA in printmaking at Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia.

I’m working on new art, doing a lot of set design and building for the Sitka Fine Arts Camp Musical Theater Camp and the Sitka Community Theater, and doing a lot of historic preservation.

I’m putting in a lot of time with the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society to restore a WWII boat shop as a maritime museum and working boat shop. That website is www.sitkamaritime.org

And, working on the history of Sitka and Alaska. I am currently working on a book about Sheldon Jackson School and College.  Alice Smith and I have interviewed many former students and staff from this complicated institution, and we are working on getting those out into the world. We just launched www.sjvoices.org. Check it out!

I also have a husband, a girl, and a boy.