New Keynote Speaker Confirmed for the 2014 Alaska Rural Energy Conference

Johnpaul Jones has been confirmed as a Keynote Speaker for the 2014 Alaska Rural Energy Conference

This year’s Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that this year’s Alaska Rural Energy Conference will host distinguished architect Johnpaul Jones as a keynote speaker.

Johnpaul Jones has had a 40-year career as an architect and is a founding partner of Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects. Earning his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon in 1967, his design philosophy emerged from his Cherokee-Choctaw ancestors, which connects him to the natural world, animal world, spirit world, and human world.

Mr. Jones’ designs have won widespread acclaim for their reverence for the earth, for paying deep respect to regional architectural traditions and native landscapes, and for heightening understanding of indigenous people and cultures of America. Johnpaul has led the design of numerous cultural cent ers and museums with tribes spanning the North American continent, culminating in his 12-year engagement as overall lead design consultant for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Johnpaul Jones to receive National Humanities Medal from President Obama

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced on July 22, 2014 that Johnpaul Jones, 2014 REC Keynote Speaker, is among the ten awardees of the 2013 National Humanities Medal.

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