July 2009
State of the Arts
Vol. 9, Issue 7
P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707
Published monthly by fairbanks Arts Association
July 18 & 19, 2009
F evenree t! p2 Far north film fest p3 arts down the road p4 Reading Series p4 Gift Shop Author p5 gift shop artist p6-7 gallery exhibit
IN THIS ISSUE
community calendar watercolor society FAA Cabin #13 volunteer thanks committee meetings volunteer spotlight
“Promoting contemporary and traditional arts in Alaska’s Interior”
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2009 Far North Conservation Film Festival The Far North Conservation Film Festival presents a diverse group of outstanding films about the conservation and sustainability of wildlife, wild places and cultures around the world. Fairbanks Arts Association is proud to be a partner is this event along with the Alaska Public Lands Information Center, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation Department and the UAF Wildlife Society. Begun in 2003, the Far North Conservation Film Festival celebrates the diversity and sustainability of wildlife, wild places and cultures around the world and in the far north through the eye of independent film. The Far North Conservation Film Festival is a place for filmmakers, local people and local businesses
“Ride of the Mergansers” from the 2008 Far North Conservation Film Festival to support media that matters in and adults alike. You can choose promoting global conservation. to attend all the films or just pick a few. Admission is free! This year’s This year the film festival will festival will be July 18th and 19th at present a variety of films for kids the following locations:
July 18 • 6-10pm: University of Alaska Fairbanks Schaible Auditorium located within the Bunnell Building on the east side of the UAF Campus July 19 • 1-3pm: Family Day at the New Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center with kids activities and films located at 101 Dunkel St. in downtown Fairbanks July 19 • 6-10pm: Pioneer Park Centennial Center for the Arts Theater located at 2300 Airport Way in Pioneer Park
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“Oil + Water” from the 2008 Far North Conservation Film Festival Fairbanks Arts Association
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will be representing Alaska at the National Old-time Fiddle Contest in Weiser, Idaho this summer, from June 22nd to June 27th. Local students, Calvyn Ambrose, Falesha Blackburn, Blake Gwalthney and Tyler Simon, will be traveling to the competition with Athabascan fiddler Bill Stevens and Athabascan guitarist Josephine Malemute. Bill Stevens competed in the Weiser contest many years ago and is planning to compete again. The organizers at the National Old-time Fiddle Contest were so excited to have Bill Stevens return, and to be bringing children, that they changed the appointment of ‘home state’ from Utah to Alaska. This means that Alaska will be the state focused on throughout the week. The Fairbanks group will lead the parade through town on a float depicting the seasons, a dog team and the northern lights. It also means that Bill and these Fairbanks youth will be performing in front
Fa i rba n k s A r t s A ss o c i at i o n
Fairbanks Arts Association was established in 1966 to promote and support the arts in the Fairbanks area. The Association is funded by private, corporate, and foundation memberships and donations, City of Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. With assistance from professional staff and charitable volunteers, the Association provides services in five areas: Visual, Literary, Performing, Community Arts and Arts Education. FAA also helps to raise funds for other arts groups, provides technical assistance and support for arts programing, encourages and advises individual artists and beginning organizations, sponsors workshops and presents educational forums.
FAA Phone: (907) 456-6485
Board of Directors Lorraine Peterson, President Marcella Hill, Vice President Leafy McBride, Secretary Myrna Colp, Treasurer
Members: Joan Stack Shane Hurd Darleen Masiak Calaya Williams Rebecca Burns Mary Ann Fortune Martin Miller
Staff June Rogers, Executive Director , ex 225 june@fairbanksarts.org
Melissa Hougland, Associate Director, ex 226 melissa@fairbanksarts.org
Sherry Faught, Office Manager/Bookkeeper, ex 223 sherry@fairbanksarts.org
Seth Schwartz, Program Coordinator, ex 227 seth@fairbanksarts.org
Jessica Rehfield, Education Coordinator, ex 222 jessica@fairbanksarts.org
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of thousands each evening of the festival. These children, their families and their instructors, especially Bill Stevens, have worked hard to make this dream a reality. The Young Native Fiddlers are very appreciative of the support from the Fairbanks community and the Fairbanks Arts Association. We are proud to represent Fairbanks and Alaska.
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.:: Reading Series ‘09 The Community Writers Group will be reading from their soon to be released Anthology “Out of Darkness, Into the Light”. CWG has hosted at least 70 writers since its inception in 1998. The current cadre of authors includes school teachers, hoteliers, physicists and more than a few professional communicators. Saturday, July 4th, readers will include: Joyce Freeman-Clark, Edward L. Hoch, Lucy Evans, Jim Durkee, Walter Rutherford and Rachael Kvapil.
GAZEBO presents NIGHTS
Presale copies of the book will be able to be ordered at this reading.
2009 2008 sponsored by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation
Fairbanks Arts Association Community Writer’s Group July 4, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery
Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
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Free Admission All Shows at 7pm Roots Guitar/Jazz/Blues Folk/Rock/Country Slack Key Folk/Roots& Guitar Variations Country/Rock Accordians Original OriginalFolk Folk Middle Eastern Dance Rock/Folk Fiddle TunesCeltic & More Middle Eastern Dance Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational Storyteller
GAZEBO presents NIGHTS
Tim RobbCreek Mosquito Karl Monetti Solstice Complex TheresaBellows Bauer Blazing MikeStackhouse Stackhouse Mike Tundra Caravan Stephen Moore Jean McDermott Tundra Caravan Guy Peters Martin Miller
2009 2008 sponsored by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation Free Admission Free Admission Shows 7pm AllAll Shows atat 7pm Tim Robb Roots Guitar/Jazz/Blues Mosquito Creek Folk/Rock/Country Pioneer American Roots Tim RobbPark Pickers Roots Guitar/Jazz/Blues Karl Monetti Slack Key & Guitar Solstice Complex Folk/Roots Dance Theatre Fairbanks Theatre Dance Ron Veliz, Lindy Raines & Friends Jazz, Guitar, SoloVariations & Duo Theresa Bauer Country/Rock Accordians Blazing Bellows JoeFeller Feller Folk/Country/Rock Joe Folk/Rock/Country Mike Stackhouse Original Folk Mike Stackhouse Original Folkthat Kit Carson Acoustic Music Rocks Kit Carson Acoustic Music that Rocks Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern Dance Rock/Folk Stephen Moore DeliveryFolk/Roots Solstice Complex Porch Dogs/Rural Bluegrass/Roots Jean McDermott Fiddle TunesCeltic & More Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern Dance Falling to Pieces Acoustic Rock Trio Karl Monetti Slack Key & Guitar Variations Guy Peters Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational Martin Miller Storyteller Guy Peters Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational Martin Miller Storyteller
At the Gazebo near Gold Rush Town Entrance at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way • Bring a chair and blanket, bench seating is limited.
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FreeFree Admission Admission For more information call 456-6485 ext. 226 AUGUST All Shows at 7pm JULY All Shows Fairbanks Arts Association is funded by private, corporate, and foundation memberships and donations - City of Fairbanks, at 7pm
Sundays Steve Moore Guitar with Vocals Star Borough, Alaska State Council on the ArtsGuitar and the National Endowment for the Arts. Sundays Fairbanks North Steve Moore with Vocals Sundays Pioneer Park Pickers American Roots Sundays Tim Robb Roots Guitar/Jazz/Blues Original Music from the Marshes of AK Mondays Lousiaska Mondays Louise Kowalski Accordion Mondays Dance Theatre Theatre Dance Mondays Ron Veliz, Lindy Raines & Friends Jazz, Guitar, Solo & Duo Fairbanks AFairbanks rts Association • July 2009 Tuesdays Hunt Bayer World Music w/Mandolin & Piano Tuesdays Stephen Moore Folk/Rock Tuesdays JoeFeller Feller Folk/Country/Rock Tuesdays Joe Folk/Rock/Country Wednesdays Theresa Bauer Country/Rock
Gift Shop Artist of the Month: Stephanie Little Wolf Stepahnie Little Wolf uses a needlefelting sculpturing technique to create people and animals out of sheep, buffalo and her Alaskan husky dog’s wool! She has been learning the technique since last December. Her first art show was Fairbanks Arts Association’s Art EXPO 09 where she sold her first pieces: a sled, musher and dog team and an Australian Aboriginal Tribesman. “I love to be creative, and throughly enjoy art and working with kids. I also write poetry, articles, music, play the guitar and sing. My family and dog team are a really big creative influence on me, as is the natural world! I love to create wolves and dogs, but am just as excited about my new Sasquatch or Alaskan Yeti.”
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Associates of Fairbanks Office:
452-6387
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Cell: 460-9328
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Gallery Exhibit
Craig Dorman With a Yankee heritage and a career focused on the oceans, I have always wanted to learn how to make ‘Nantucket’ baskets, which were first woven by the lightship keepers off the coast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, to while away the hours. My wife, Cynthia, bought me my first mold as a birthday present shortly after we settled in Fairbanks, and after making a number of berry baskets for myself and friends, I began to experiment with different materials and patterns. I particularly enjoy working with baleen and hard woods and although I mostly make Nantucket lightship style baskets, I have started to work a bit with reed and paper. My wife is also a crafter (sewing, smocking, rug braiding, weaving) and she makes the linings for the purses, totes and jewelry baskets. -Craig Dorman
Sandra Harrington, Anchorage Craig Baskets AngleDorman, of Reflection, Acrylic on Gesso Board
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Exhibit Dates: July 3-August 1 Opening Reception: Friday, July 3, 5-7pm, Bear Gallery Fairbanks Arts Association
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Susan Farnham I first became exposed to the visual impact of prayer flags after climbing over Thorong La, the 17,600 foot pass on the trail that circles the Annapurna Mountains of Nepal. This dry, windblown area has few trees except within the grounds of the Muktinath Temple, a pilgrimage site for Hindus and Buddhists. There a small forest of gnarled trees is strung with hundreds of prayer flags in various stages of color and decay. Some flags have deteriorated to such a ragged and transparent state that one can clearly see the mountains through them. This series is the result of a number of years composing paintings with prayer flags and mountain villages in mind. What were first more realistic depictions have become increasingly abstract, using rectangular shapes and blocks of color that give a sense of the space and movement that represent the Himalayas of Nepal. Susan Farnh
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Susan Farnham, Hill Town
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Fairbanks Shakespeare Theater presents Othello, directed by Graham Watts, July 9-26, 2009 at Jack Townsend Point at UAF. The show performs Thurs-Sat at 7:30 and Sundays at 2 PM. For more information please call (907)457-7638 Ongoi ng, throug hout the summ er, North land Youth Choir will be auditioning for our 09-10 Tenth Anniversary season which begins in September, 2009. Youth, ages 8 to 18, with unchanged treble voices are invited to audition. No fee for the auditions. For more information about our choir and about the audition process, visit www.northlandchoir. org, or phone Melissa Downes at 388-0543. On July 11, Fairbanks Drama Association will host the 7th Annual MYSTERY DINNER THEATRE under the big top tent on the Riverfront Theatre lawn. The event includes a catered dinner and a show (“The Humor and Wisdom of Mark Twain”) in the tent featuring local celebrities. Tickets are $ 75 per person or $ 550 for a table of eight for this fund raiser. Call 456-PLAY to reserve your tickets. The event begins at 6:30pm. From July 13 - August 2, Fairbanks Drama Association will host the YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE ENSEMBLE class as Session # 3 for Drama Project 2009. This is a professional theatre training program for young people ages 12 - 18 years. Classes meet M-F from 1-6pm at the Riverfront Theatre. This class prepares and performs the full production of: KIDNAPPED IN LONDON for public performances on July 31, August 1 and August 2. To register, phone 456-PLAY or download the registration brocure at www.fairbanksdrama.org.
ts! Ar the in t en vem hie Ac Youth Choir Sings Its Way to Nashville
After auditi oning and then receiv ing a forma l invita tion to partic ipate, North land Youth Choir will be travel ing to Nashville, Tennessee in July to sing in the Crossroads Children’s Chorus Festival in Nashville, Tennesse (www. crossr oadsc hildre nscho rusfes tival.c om). The week- long, international festival brings together youth choirs to perform under the direction of Canadian composer and guest conductor Stephen Hatfield. The festival chorus will perform the final concert in the Grand Ole Opry House and will be joined in concert by Country artist Ronnie Milsap, operatic soprano Kallen Esperian and Broadway artist Lawrence Hamilton. Northland Youth Choir wishes to thank the Fairbanks arts community for supporting our efforts to attend this very unique festival.
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Young Peoples’ Theatre Ensemble Fairbanks Drama Association’s Young Peoples’ Theatre Ensemble presents KIDNAPPED IN LONDON for three performances only at the Riverfront Theatre. July 31 and August 1 at 7:30pm and August 2nd at 2:00pm. All tickets are $ 5.00. Call 456-PLAY to reserve tickets.
Friends of Creamers Field present
North Star Ballet Summer Dance Intensive, for ages 12-19 will be held June 15-Jul y 10 on the Tanan a Valley Fairgr ounds . Call 451-8 800 for inform ation.
Saturday Mornings with an Artist June – August • Every Saturday 10am-2pm Each Saturday, a different local artist will set up their art for viewing and for sale in the back room of the Cre am er’s Fie ld Far mh ous e Visitor Center. Drop-in anytime and come meet some of our local artists! Call 452-5162 or check in at www.creamersfield.org for more information and the list of artists by date.
University of Alaska Museum of the North Special Exhibits Gallery presents- The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World from May 16 - October 3, 2009. The museum is open daily from 9am - 9pm. For more information please call 474.7505 There is still time to register for Fairbanks Summer Arts Festiv al classes! Check out FSAF’s website: www.fsaf.org and click on Registration Form. Follow the easy directions for registering on page one of that Form. You can find the Festival catalog on our website, too: Simply click on ‘catalog’ in the colored box to the right. If you’d like a hard copy of the catalog, you may pick one up at Dateline Copies on the corner of College Road and University Avenue. The Artworks next door to Dateline Copies has them too and so do art galleries downtown. There are also catalogs outside Jo Scott’s at 2757 College Road (at the wagon wheel). Our calendar of events during the two weeks is online too. If you have questions please give FSAF a call at 474-8869. There is a terrific Festival planned this year!
State of the Arts Fairbanks Arts Association invites you to advertise in our State of the Arts Newsletter!
Rates as low as $25 Members receive 5% off all prices!
For more info call 456-6485 ext. 226
m is seeking an Alaska Arts Education Consortiu August 1, 2009. Executive Director! Position begins on operations of the Director will oversee the day-to-day activities, aligned AAEC Board and Consortium and didate must have with the three AAEC goals. Any can nication skills. computer, organizational and commu ed. Please email Arts/Education background preferr information. Beverly_williams@lksd.org for more
To submit calendar information, please email melissa@ fairbanksarts.org or call 456-6485 ext.226
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Oppertunities in Juneau! Juneau Jazz and Classics is seeking an energetic professional to oversee an annual 10-day music festival based in Juneau and entering its 24th year. Email info@jazzandclassics.org or call 907 463 3378. Juneau Arts and Humanites Council is looking for a facilites manager. Email info@jahc.org for more information.
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Society Corner Anne Aleshire
Growing up on a farm in Michigan, I learned to appreciate the natural world around me by spending plenty of time outdoors. The only way to experience and capture the uniqueness of a place is by observing it at different times of the day and in different seasons. I fell in love with painting in high school and have been painting ever since. I joined the Fairbanks Watercolor Society in the summer of 2006. All painting mediums interest me as each have their own characteristics and challenges. “An artist is more than a copyist. ...painting is really the result of the subtle interaction of the palette, the canvas, nature, and your own tastes - that your personal opinion and vision is as important as the trees and streams that you strive to paint. ” - Roger W. Curtis
Neville Abbott Jacobs Neville Abbott Jacobs grew up in California but came to Anchorage, Alaska in l949 with her parents. She loved painting as a little girl, and her grandmother, a competent artist, taught and encouraged her. She lived in the well known art community of Laguna Beach as a girl which also gave her the opportunity to be exposed to California landscape paintings and artists. She held her first one-woman show in Anchorage in l952. Soon after she moved to Fairbanks to attend the University of Alaska where she majored in Anthropology but minored in art and she then exhibited at the Alaska House Gallery regularly and since then her work has become available through most local galleries. She has travelled over Alaska extensively and painted from the Arctic to Southeast Alaska. In l968, she married a well known pilot, Bob Jacobs, and began traveling to many parts of the world, from Africa to Asia and Europe, which has provided much inspiration for her work, but her major love is for the Alaska wilderness landscape. Neville originally began painting in oil but found the spontaneity of watercolor an inspiration so that for many years most of her work has been in that medium, although she continues to work in other water based media as well as oils. Neville Jacobs’ work hangs in public buildings and many private collections around the world. She has received awards for her work, has been credentialed by the Alaska Watercolor Society and is a life member of the Fairbanks Watercolor Society. She makes her home in Fairbanks, and continues to paint outdoors “on the spot”
Come Visit Fairbanks Arts Association's Cabin 13! Fairbanks Arts Association is pleased to announce the opening of Cabin 13: a co-op style gift shop in Gold Rush Town in Pioneer Park. This unique cabin is a partnership between seven artists and Fairbanks Arts Association. Each Artist Partner has the opportunity to place their work in the cabin and in turn staff the Cabin one day a week throughout the summer. Come visit Cabin 13 and see the wonderful work of Shane Hurd, Myrna Colp, Katie Pride, Shirley Odsather, Frances Schulz, Deb McQueen, Seth Schwartz and Liz Bent.
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Members recieve 10% off all gift shop items in the Bear Gallery Gift Shop and Cabin 13! Fairbanks Arts Association
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Cinema Committee July 21st at 5:30 p.m. Visual Arts July 15th at 5:30 p.m. All meetings in the Bear Gallery, 3rd Floor of the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way. All meetings are subject to change. For more information call 456-6485 ext. 227.
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The Bear Gallery has been an important part of my summers in Fairbanks. After I married Craig Salsbury and started migrating to Fairbanks, I started exploring Fairbanks. During a First Friday Art Walk, Craig brought me to the Bear Gallery. While that exhibit has been forgotten, the people, the spirit of the Bear Gallery stayed with me. Early the next summer I asked about volunteer positions. Each year I look forward to being a docent in the Bear Gallery. It allows me to meet all sorts of visitors from all over our wonderful planet and at the same time give back to the community that welcomed me. I have been amazed at all that Fairbanks Arts Association does for our community and the encouragement to all forms of art from the film festival, youth arts events, to the various exhibits in the Bear Gallery and many other events. Volunteering is my way of not only supporting the arts but the community as well.
Volunteer Spotlight - Barbara pomar