“I believe everyone has a spirit animal,” she says, clutching her gold whale earrings, “and mine is the humpback whale.” But this day, her spirit animal is feeling shy. “A lot of whale ...

“Their behaviors are so gorgeous; you never get tired of it,” says Bobbie Hedges, a Manhattan Beach resident wearing killer-whale earrings and a whale-fluke pendant. McGrath spots four ...

It is the nation's northernmost maker's space, a place where Indigenous artists can create things like walrus ivory earrings, figurines made from whale baleen and traditional knives with caribou ...