Rico Worl
Community Arts & Experts Program Artist 2023-2024
Logo & Website Banner Creator (2022)
Rico Lanáat’ Worl is a Tlingit/Athabascan social designer and artist with training in anthropology. His work started in developing the arts department at Sealaska Heritage Institute, implementing programs to empower the Indigenous artists of Southeast Alaska. The programs focused on developing fundamental skills and access to resources.
Through his current ongoing project, Trickster Company, He carries forward the goals of empowering Indigenous artists. Through this brand he works to:
Celebrate Indigenous resilience. He hopes that introducing traditional art through modern products, creates greater accessibility for Indigenous Peoples to represent who they are in their day to day lives with pride.
Celebrate cross cultural connection. The products he curates and produces are created to be accessible to non-native or non-Tlingit People as well, so that everyone has an opportunity to celebrate the art, to appreciate the art, without appropriating the art.
Celebrate the art, to appreciate the art, without appropriating the art.
Fully participating in the multi-million dollar tourism industry by providing authentic Native art and addressing cultural appropriation and the impacts on Native communities and Peoples.
Represent the story of how as Indigenous Peoples today, we are not only here today, but engaged in modern lifestyles. His work strives to represent modern lifestyle driven with foundations in traditional roots.
These goals are also foundational in his work outside of the brand. His crafts range from product design, digital design, jewelry making, printmaking, public art, and most recently he is working to develop his skills in sculpture and computer aided 3D design.