September 2009
State of the Arts
Vol. 9, Issue 9
P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707
Published monthly by fairbanks Arts Association
Fairbanks Film Festival Fairbanks Arts Association is now accepting entries for the 4th annual Fairbanks Film Festival also known as F3.
Deadline for submissions is June 19th, 2009 at 5pm.
Fairbanks Film Festival is a juried survey of moving image arts by independent film and video makers, including amateurs and students. Categories include: feature, documentary, short, music video and animation. The Panel of Jurors will consider technical and creative merit of the work from the above categories. Open only to artists currently residing in Alaska. All work submitted must reflect the artist’s unique creative effort. For further details please consult the F3 prospectus attached or call/email FAA Program Coordinator at 456-6485 ext.227 / seth@fairbanksarts.org The Festival will take place September 7, 2009 at 5pm at the Pioneer Park Theater located inside the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, 2300 Airport Way.
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The Prospectus can also be downloaded from our website www.fairbanksarts.org
Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts Theater in Pioneer Park $7 or $5 students & seniors
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watercolor society census 2010 volunteer thanks committee meetings volunteer spotlight
“Promoting contemporary and traditional arts in Alaska’s Interior”
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Fairbanks Film Festival The fourth Annual Fairbanks Film Festival, or F3, is here!
Fairbanks Arts Association is proud to announce films and illustrates the Alaska Robotics comic. that the Fairbanks Film Festival, also known He studied computer science at the University of as F3, is scheduled to take place on Labor Day, Alaska Fairbanks and screenwriting at The Film Monday, September 7, 2009 at 5pm. The Festival School, was named to Alaska’s Top 40 Under 40 was born in 2006, following one of Fairbanks Arts in 2006 and was a founding member of the Juneau Association’s Cinema Committee meetings, during Underground Motion Picture Society. which several members of the committee expressed a This year all submissions The Ceremony and screening of wish for having a showcase for F3 fell into one of five winners’ films will take place on event for the growing number categories: Documentary, Monday, September 7th, at 5 pm of Alaskan filmmakers in Short, Animation, K-12 in the Alaska Centennial Center Fairbanks. Short and K-12 Feature. A for the Arts Theater at Pioneer “Best of” will be awarded in Park. Admission is $7 for adults This year Fairbanks Arts each category along with a and $5 for students and seniors. Association had three Cinema Committee Choice Please come out and support your wonderful jurors. Two, Katie Award and winners will be local filmmakers! Pride and Kathryn Harris, announced have been past jurors for F3. Katie has many years experience in the film The Award Ceremony and screening of winners’ industry as a part of the Sundance Film Festival films will take place on Monday, September 7th, at team and Cine Vegas, the popular Las Vegas 5 pm in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts Festival, as well as with various crew work for both Theater at Pioneer Park. Admission is $7 for adults feature and independent films. Kathryn is a well and $5 for students and seniors. This year’s F3 is known Fairbanks community member, a radio DJ shaping up to be a very exciting event, so please on Magic 101.1 as well as KIAK.FM’s morning come out and support all your local filmmakers! show “Pete the Cruiser and Kathryn”. The final F3 juror is Pat Race from Juneau. Pat makes short Call 456-6485 ext. 227 for more information.
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Fa i rba n k s A r t s A ss o c i123982_13678 at i o n 3.25" xthe 4.5" Fairbanks Arts Association was established in 1966 to promote and support arts in the Fairbanks area. The Association is funded by private, corporate, and BW 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. 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 Members: Joan Stack Shane Hurd Darleen Masiak Calaya Williams Rebecca Burns Mary Ann Fortune Martin Miller
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seth@fairbanksarts.org Board of Directors Lorraine Peterson, President Marcella Hill, Vice President Leafy McBride, Secretary Myrna Colp, Treasurer
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.:: Reading Series ‘09 Amber Flora Thomas Amber Flora Thomas is a faculty member at the University of Alaska Fairbanks English Department where she teaches poetry. Amber is the recipient of several major poetry awards, including the Richard Peterson Prize and Ann Stanford Prize. Her poetry has appeared in the Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Southern Poetry Review, and Bellingham Review, among other publications. She has an MFA in Poetry Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, where she won an Academy of American Poets Prize and a post-graduate teaching fellowship. Her first collection of poems, Eye of Water, won the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (selected by Harryette Mullen) and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2005. Eye of Water was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in 2005.
Amber Flora Thomas September 7, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery
Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
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In today’s economic climate, families need to make every dollar count. That’s why the University of Alaska Museum of the North and the Fairbanks North Star Borough public libraries launched a new program this summer to make the museum more accessible to families. Borough residents with current library cards can now check out museum passes at the Noel Wien and North Pole branch libraries as well as from the library book mobile. The passes, which provide free admission for two adults and up to four children from the same household, can be checked out for two weeks and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The passes include admission to the museum’s
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special exhibits. “The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World” runs through Saturday, October 3. ”Ascension: Exploring the Art of Denali” opens October 10 in the special exhibits gallery and runs through January 30. In addition to the library passes, museum memberships offer an economical way to visit the museum – a $75 annual family membership will pay for itself if your family visits the museum more than twice a year. Volunteer opportunity: The museum is looking for volunteers to lead school tour programs this fall. No experience is necessary. Free training will be provided August 31 through September 11. For more information, call 474-5360.
Gift Shop Artist of the Month: Doris Pfalmer I learned to throw pottery on the wheel in high school, but didn’t touch clay again until 25 years later. By that time, I had started collecting “clay tools” like marker lids, lock washers, Legos, beads, and anything else I thought might make a cool mark in clay. Seeing patterns in ordinary objects has become second nature to me. I find tools in the oddest places, like a piece of plastic inside a smashed video tape in a driveway near my house, which I use to make an Aztec-looking god, or a black binder clip, which I use to make a cartoon face with two eyes and big nose. I normally have trouble sitting still for any length of time, but when I work with clay, I can sit for hours making pattern after pattern. I love doing my own work, but my real joy is taking my tools into schools and working with kids and clay. Seeing children get so excited about the marks they make in projects they didn’t think they could make in the first place is one of my biggest joys. There’s just nothing like teaching art to kids.
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Tatiana Piatanova New Work: The Adventures into Alter Ego. This body of work came out of living in a small cabin and hiking in the woods with my dog. It always amazes me how things and perspectives change when you are alone among the trees. Your mind always wanders into imaginary worlds dreaming up what is hiding behind the trees. The ordinary, everyday grind and worries seem to disappear and you are left with just yourself, stripped of the many faces you put on during the day. The drawings for this show are a series of visions that happened during those hikes. Since the subject matter, “The Adventures into Alter Ego”, is somewhat unusual, my objective for this work was to use unconventional materials in the creative process to complement it. Exploring different media was just as much fun as it was transferring the visions on paper and the process itself became a sort of conversation between the subject matter, materials and myself. This work is not meant to be taken seriously or literally (as any art really) and I hope it will be as enjoyable exploring it as it was for me to create it.
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Exhibit Dates: September 4-26 Opening Reception: Friday, September 4, 5-7pm, Bear Gallery Fairbanks Arts Association
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Nancy Burnham Burnham was raised in Massachusetts where she studied to become a registered nurse. After working as a nurse for 10 years she pursued her dream to become a working artist. She studied in Fairbanks and Vermont where she received an MFA in Studio Arts. This study opened up a world of possibilities. She has worked in several media, but has a particular attachment to painting, most especially encaustic painting. She often incorporates organic forms while she explores the concepts of her personal history and the influence of a nursing background. After a hiatus from painting for a year, she has created this body of work as a reintroduction to ideas and materials.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday, Noon-6pm
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Opera Fairbanks presents An Evening With David Cangelosi (Denali Park) on September 4. Visit www.OperaFairbanks.org for information.
On Thursday, September 3, KUAC FM 89.9 hosts a special “Fairbanks Symphony Concert Season Preview” from 1pm to 3pm. This two hour broadcast will feature commentary by Music Director Eduard Zilberkant, Fairbanks Symphony Board President Charles Lemke and other guests, including musicians from the Fairbanks Symphony. The commentary will be interspersed with music to be heard during the upcoming season as well as special offers and giveaways. Tickets for 2009-2010 Fairbanks Symphony and Arctic Chamber Orchestra performances – currently available only in subscription packages – will go on sale to single ticket buyers beginning Tuesday, September 8. Tickets for all concerts can be purchased by calling the Symphony Office at (907) 474-5733, visiting the FSO Website at www. FairbanksSymphony.org or by visiting the Symphony Office in the Fine Arts Complex at the University of Alaska Fairbanks which is open from 10am to 5pm Monday through Friday. Fairbanks Symphony Arctic Chamber Orchestra presents Corigliano - Concerto for Percussion & Strings and Mozart – Symphony No. 40 with Eduard Zilberkant, Conductor; Morris Palter, Percussion Soloist; R. Strauss – Serenade for Winds Op.7 on Sunday OCTOBER 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm in Davis Concert Hall. For more information please visit www.fairbankssymphony.org.
Violin Instructors Wanted! Teach an hour or two a week during the school day at local schools for a non-profit, grant-funded program, Young Native Fiddlers, which is affiliated with FNSBSD Alaska Native Education. Young Native Fiddlers offers Alaska Native children individual violin lessons at their schools weekly during non-academic times as well as group lessons with traditional Athabascan fiddlers on Saturdays. We are in need of instructors for the individual lessons. For more information, call Maryanne Allan at 590-1711.
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WINTER HOURS The Bear Gallery & Gift Shop is switching to Winter Hours beginning September 1st.
New hours are Tuesday-Saturday, Noon-6pm
September auditions for Northland Youth Choir’s 10th Anniversary Season. Auditions are ongoing by appointment. Call 388-0543 or visit www.northlandchoir.org.
Docents Needed! Volunteer in the Bear Gallery for a three-hour sh ift as of te n as yo u lik e. Ca ll Sh er ry at 456-6485, ex 223.
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
SILK FUSION WORKSHOP sponsored by Fairbanks Weavers & Spinners Guild on September12, 13, 14. Presented by KAREN SELK – Salt Spring Is., B.C. SLIDE LECTURE to be held September 13. Check website for location & lecture topic www.fairbanksweavers.org Contact: Penny Wakefield @ 4527737. Fairbanks Watercolor Society monthly meeting will be held Wed Sept 16th, 2009 beginning at 6:30pm in the Blue Room in the Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park. Social hour is from 6:30pm -7:00pm followed by the general membership meeting, and the program begins at 8:00pm. The program will be our summer Show n Tell. Bring 1 or 2 paintings, you will have 1 or 2 minutes to briefly talk about your painting. New members are welcome. For further information call 389-2114 or 458-7925.
Choral Conductor Wanted!
for a part-time choral Northland Youth Choir is looking e a music education conductor. This individual must hav eloping singing voice degree, knowledge of a child’s dev ior choral experience is and experience teaching children. Pr tact Melissa Downes at preferred. For more information, con ir.org. 907-388-0543 or www.northlandcho
To submit calendar information, please email melissa@ fairbanksarts.org or call 456-6485 ext.226
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Administrative Assistant Wanted! Northland Youth Choir is looking for a non-profit administrative assistant. Must have computer knowledge, a good work ethic, an interest in the arts and excellent social and organizational skills. It is a paid, part-time position. For more information, contact Melissa Downes at 907-388-0543 or www. northlandchoir.org.
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Society Corner Helen Howard was born in North Cornwall, England and moved to Fairbanks in 1964. She was the Project Secretary for the Musk Ox Project started that year by John Teal, Jr. and taught qiviut knitting as well as helping to start the Oomingmak cooperative. She became interested in watercolors through the Fairbanks Watercolor Society after retiring from UAF’s Alaska Native Language Center in 1999. She has taken workshops and classes from a number of well-known artists and she especially enjoys painting outdoors. She finds Helen Howard watercolor a challenge but enjoyable to use and has had three solo shows. Most recently she has had prints made of one of her paintings, “Polar Bear Awash”, as a gentle reminder that we should do what we can to slow climate warming as it not only affects the bears but is causing the coastal erosion of villages. Sue Cole
I joke and tell people that I have Artistic ADD- I’m always trying something different in art. Currently I am experimenting with marbling on paper and fabric as well as learning different aspects of bookbinding and other book arts. Additionally, I’ve recently taken on painting murals. I have completed an 11’x 7’ foot wall of Chinese Bamboo and, most recently, a 6’ foot single fireweed. I love to teach, both one-on-one and classroom style. I teach knitting and crochet as well as all kinds of art and give driving lessons.
Life is a constant challenge and inspiration and I especially enjoy taking part in trying to capture different aspects of it. You can forget about your problems and even time while you are making art, which is one of the things that fascinates me most about it.
Sue Cole
Census 2010 Census Day is April 1, 2010 The Fairbanks North Star Borough is joining the rest of the United States to prepare for Census Day 2010. The census occurs every 10 years and is a count of everyone living in the U.S. Participation in the census is mandated by the U.S. Constitution but the 2010 census is easier than ever and will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Any personal information you share during the census is protected by federal law. Census data is used to distribute Congressional seats to states, to make decisions about what community services to provide, and to distribute $300 billion in federal funds to local, state and tribal governments each year.
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For more information about the Fairbanks North Star Borough Census, e-mail the Complete Count chair Kathryn Dodge at kdodge@ co.fairbanks.ak.us.
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