Alice Cook

Alice Cook and her husband John lived for thirty years in Juneau, in a house on Chicken Ridge that had been built around 1910 for the superintendent of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company. Cook began her career as an illustrator with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where she worked developing texts to be used in Bush schools. She later became an environmental education officer for the US Forest Service. She was also a member of the Sunshine Gallery artists' cooperative in Friday Harbor,...See more

Alice Cook and her husband John lived for thirty years in Juneau, in a house on Chicken Ridge that had been built around 1910 for the superintendent of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Company. Cook began her career as an illustrator with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, where she worked developing texts to be used in Bush schools. She later became an environmental education officer for the US Forest Service. She was also a member of the Sunshine Gallery artists' cooperative in Friday Harbor, Washington, where she and John live, not far from Neil and Rosemarie Davis. See less