Helen Simeonoff

Helen Simeonoff

Helen J. Simeonoff is Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) of Kodiak, Alaska; her parents were William Simeonoff, Jr. of Kodiak and Alexandra Knagin (Knagg) of Afognak. Helen studied art in San Diego; attended a watercolor workshop held by Tom Lynch and college watercolor class in Adak, Alaska.  

Interests include photography, glass fusing; and resin minature Sugpiat masks.   Helen first learned of the Sugpiat cultural masks, beaded headdress collection collected by Pinart by attending a 1994 presentation given by Dominque Desson in Kodiak.  In 1999 Anne Wells,  formerly of London, photographed the Pinart collection in Boulogne; Anne Wells kindly provided Helen with photography of the collection and a travel route thru London then to Boulogne sur Mer, France.   Other interests are beading, silversmithing, sewing, genalogy of Alaska native women who "married" Russian American Company employees.

Visit Helen's website at www.AlaskaKodiakWatercolor.com.