Babes in the Woods

Rebecca grew up in Sitka, Alaska, a town of about 8000 people on the outer coast of the southeastern Alaskan archipelago. For about ten years she worked as a shipwright repairing wooden fishing boats, went to boatbuilding school in England for a year, and cofounded the Sitka Shipwrights Cooperative. She also worked occasionally as a deckhand on trollers and longliners. Rebecca learned wood engraving around 1992 from Dale DeArmond, who had just moved back to Sitka. In 1996 she started doing art and her calendar, the Outer Coast calendar of art and poetry. In 2000 Rebecca received an MFA in printmaking at Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia. She is now working on new art, and putting in a lot of time with the Sitka Maritime Heritage Society to restore a WWII marine ways as a maritime museum and WWII interpretive center. That website is www.sitkamaritime.org. Rebecca has a husband, Eric Dow, a little girl, Cora Grace Dow, and a son: Asa James Dow.