Tom Cooper's shop on the Sterling Highway holds a lot of interesting antler and horn carvings that are just quintessentially Alaskan!
“It was a little struggle for a couple of years because I was still learning and I was not a natural-born carver,” Cooper said. “I had to work at it to get it to look halfway decent.”
Cooper creates carvings out of animal horns and antlers, but there is plenty more variety when looking around his shop, including ivory carvings from Alaska Native artists, jade carvings, and rocks.He gets most of his horns and antlers by purchasing them from people who will scavenge them while they’re outdoors.
Cooper says that he can usually create an antler carving per day, which seems to come from years of honing his craft and taking true pride in what he does. “It’s just a sense of accomplishment when you get something done that you did with your own hands,” he said. “I don’t know. It’s just — I’m sure the same thing as people doing music or anything else.”
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