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Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich Park Enhancement

Peratrovich Park in downtown Anchorage is located at 4th and E. Street. It is a focal point for tourists and businesses all year long. Help us celebrate the dignity, tenacity and sense of justice that the Peratroviches exhibited by honoring the movement of civil rights for all with a donation to this public art in the parks project. Raven symbolizes the shedding of the darkness of discrimination and the rising of hope and dreams of a people once oppressed.

Project description
Raven is made of bronze, finished with a highly polished black patina. With a 4 -foot wingspan, Raven is attached to the top of the smoke trail nearly 10 feet above the ground. The twisted and curved smoke trail is made of polished stainless steel plates. The sun carried in Raven’s beak is a 2 inch highly polished quartz with thin gold seams. Raven faces the rising sun.

Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich
• Leaders in the Anti-Discrimination movement in Alaska in the 1940’s
• Leaders in Alaska Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood organizations
• Instrumental in passage of America ’s first anti-discrimination laws, enacted February 16, 1945
• Elizabeth Peratrovich Day celebrated throughout Alaska by legislative decree, Feb. 16
• Downtown park in Anchorage dedicated to Roy and Elizabeth

Roy Peratrovich Jr., eldest son of the Roy and Elizabeth is a noted engineer and artist. His work has been displayed nationally at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the State Capitol Building in Juneau. His father was from the Eagle Clan and his mother from the Raven Clan.

 

Peratrovich Park Project Committee Members
Steve Beardsley, Past Parks & Recreation Commissioner beardsleysn@alaska.net
Ken Takakuwa, Anchorage Division Manager Health Dept.
Kay Ashton, Alaska Native Heritage Center
Roy Peratrovich Jr., Engineer and Artist
Peter Wong, Camp 87 Alaska Native Brotherhood

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