Kelsey Aho

brisk ride towards a group of writers of words in place of keystrokes

🎡♻️🔂 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."

Early morning art delivery: wearable boreal forest plant guide!

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

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

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

🇭🇷⚽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.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

light loosening winter's grip

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!

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

"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!

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

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

wearable native plant guide for winter trails in Alaska

spray paint was 75% off last week at Ace

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.

standing together on the right side of the road

Ethical consumption under capitalism

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

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...

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

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.

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

test tiles of two clays from Fairbanks, AK

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!

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

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

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".

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

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.

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

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

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

did you hear the geese this morning?

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

at the pottery studio, carving slip made with ash from the bonanza creek fire