May 2010
State of the Arts
P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707
Vol. 10, Issue 5
Published monthly by fairbanks Arts Association
2nd Annual
Old-Fashioned Box Social
Thursday, May 20 6:30-9:00 p.m.
$15 in Advance, $20 at the door Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts Pioneer Park
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“Promoting contemporary and traditional arts in Alaska’s Interior”
Charlie’s pARTy for the Arts An Old-Fashioned Box Social
Just as last year, Charlie’s Old Fashioned Fashioned Box Social. This year’s social will Box Social will revisit a custom of days gone feature live music, a cash bar and, of course, by when time was a bit slower the specially prepared boxed dinners that will Since the beginnings of this country, a be up for auction. Silent auction and out cry Box Social was a great way to raise money auction items will also be featured during this special fundraising event. for a worthy cause.
Traditionally, a young Charlie’s Box Social Join in the fun – volunteer to lady prepared a tasty will be held on May 20th decorate and donate a box or a basket lunch, which was packed from 6:30 to 9:00pm in a pretty basket or box with dinner for two for the auction, in the Exhibit Hall of and put up for auction. the Alaska Centennial or donate a silent auction item. Ask In addition to winning Center for the Arts in your friends and neighbors to join you the lunch, the gentleman Pioneer Park. Tickets with the highest bid also in enjoying a relaxed evening of old f o r t h i s e n j o y a b l e won the company of the evening fundraiser are time music at an old fashioned social. lady who prepared it. Her $15 in advance, $20 at identity was supposed the door, and include to be a secret until the a non-alcoholic drink bidding was over, but usually the bidder received and dessert. For those who are unsuccessful advance information from his sweetheart. bidders, there will be boxed dinners for two of While we won’t be auctioning off the company cold chicken, pasta salad and fruit available for of the box-maker, Fairbanks Arts Association purchase at $20. is excited to host our second Charlie’s Old
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Fairbanks Seventh
Alaska Visitor Industry’s Walk for Charity
The visitor industry is Alaska’s second largest industry, employing more than 60,000 people. Travel businesses are involved in their communities, supporting local charities with financial contributions, auction items, door prizes, volunteers and more. The Fairbanks Alaska Visitor Industry’s Walk for Charity celebrates this commitment to giving through a festive community event that raises money for local non-profit charities. Fairbanks Arts Association is pleased to announce our participation in this year’s event on May 14th at 6 pm. Often referred to as the “4k graze”, food vendors dot the course through downtown Fairbanks from 1st to 10th street. Everyone is invited to participate either with registering as a walker, or supporting one of the already registered FAA walkers. Either way, 100% of the designated funds (including your registration fee) will go to your chosen non-profit. Registration is just $25 for adults and $15 for kids. Online registration is at www.explorefairbanks.com/charitywalk between now and May 10 at midnight. Registration is also available on May 10 from noon – 7 pm at the Morris Thompson Cultural & Visitors Center (MTCVC). All walkers need to come that day to the MTCVC to pick up their bib and last minute instructions.
Remember to designate Fairbanks Arts Association as your charity!
Friday, May 8, 2009 Friday, May 14th, 6:00 p.m. 6:00 pm at the Immaculate Conception Lot o c 123982_13678 Fa i rbChurch a n k s Parking Ar t s Ass i at i o n Raise money for local was charities you Fairbanks Arts Association established as in 1966 to promote and support thexarts 3.25" 4.5" in the Fairbanks area. The Association is funded by private, corporate, and foundation feast on fabulous food on this fun 4k memberships and donations, City of Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska State BW grazeCouncil through Fairbanks on the Arts,downtown 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.
While we’re proud of our long tradition of helping to bring arts and entertainment to our community—we’re even prouder of every occasion when talented artists and performers outshine our contributions. Wells Fargo is proud to celebrate the Fairbanks Arts Association.
Staff June Rogers, Executive Director , ex 225 june@fairbanksarts.org
Melissa Hougland, Associate Director, ex 226 melissa@fairbanksarts.org
Carey Seward, Program Coordinator, ex 222 carey@fairbanksarts.org
Maria Schmidt, Bookkeeper/Office Manager, ex 223 maria@fairbanksarts.org Board of Directors Lorraine Peterson, President Marcella Hill, Vice President Rebecca Burns, Secretary Myrna Colp, Treasurer
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FAA Phone: (907) 456-6485
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.:: Reading Series ‘10 Jean Anderson is the author of a collection of Alaskan stories, IN EXTREMIS, and co-editor of the regional anthology INROADS. Her fiction has received local, regional, and nation awards, including an Individual Artist Award from ASCA, a month-long residency at the Island Institute in Sitka, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction selection. She was a founding member of the UAF journal Permafrost, was involved in the 1980s with the local publisher Fireweed Press, and started the News-Miner’s book review column in about 1984, writing weekly reviews for several years. Recent stories appear in Kalliope, Chariton Review, and Northern Review, and her first two short plays were performed in 2008 and 2009 as part of the 8x10 short play competition. She’s lived in Fairbanks since 1966. Cindy Hardy was born in Salisbury, Maryland and grew up in horse and farm country in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Penn State University and holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. A past recipient of an Alaska State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant, she has published poems and stories in Permafrost, The Northern Review, and Ice-Floe: An International Journal of the Far North. Her chapbook, We Tempt Our Luck, was a finalist in the 2008 Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Chapbook competition. Her poetry collection Beneath a Portrait of a Horse is newly published by Salmon Press of Ireland. She writes poems of longing, disappointment, and discovery, of the natural world bumping up against the man-made world, of the small places where we can find respite—the crack in a sidewalk, a conversation on a ferry, the taste of ginger or coffee. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she teaches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, dances, gardens, and tends the horses that appear in her poems.
Jean Anderson & Cindy Hardy
May 1, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery • FREE
Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
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The Museum of the Aleutians was constructed by the City of Unalaska and opened to the public in August 1999. The Museum of the Aleutians’ 9,250 square foot facility has state-of-the-art exhibit galleries, collections storage area, laboratory and a professional staff dedicated to fulfilling the museum’s mission.
offered its visitors an important educational tool related to marine biology and environmental awareness. Today the program has become an important tool in bringing together the educators and scientists from different fields to foster discussions on different marine issues closely related to the life on the island.
The Museum of the Aleutians boasts a 1,900 square foot changing exhibits gallery. The gallery is a matchless community resource, well suited to mounting several shows each year; it also serves as a gathering place for educational programs and community meetings.
The Museum collections include a wide range of artifacts from archeological excavations, ethnographic objects, WWII collections and photographic archives. Each year, hundreds of new historical and cultural objects arrive at the museum. The Museum collections are professionally cared for in a secure, climate-controlled environment.
Since the spring of 2004 the Museum of the Aleutians, in collaboration with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Marine Advisory Program has
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Gallery Exhibit
Earth, Fire and Fibre XXVII
Featuring local artists: Margo Klass, Annie Duffy, Karin Franzen, Richard Kacsur and Patricia Walsh The Anchorage Museum’s biennial craft exhibition is one of the state’s longest running juried exhibitions. It showcases Alaska artists working with materials such as clay, glass, metal or wood. Selected artworks often challenge the usual preconceptions, blurring the lines between art and craft.
former executive director of Pilchuck Glass School. She has served as a reviewer for many state and national art agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts. “The intimacy and innate communication of the handmade object is something rare in our modern lives,” Watkinson wrote. “It is why the crafts, however broadly they are defined and however keenly debated, continue to maintain their meaning for artist and viewer alike.”
Fairbanks artist Margo Klass won the $1,000 Juror’s Choice Award for a series of books hand-made through the pochair process, a meticulous method in which a Earth, Fire and Fibre will tour the state for one series of stencils is used to create a print. year. This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from Entries included 313 works of art from 113 Alaska the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National artists. For the exhibition, juror Patricia Watkinson Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. selected 82 works from 50 artists. Watkinson is the
Margo Klass, Fairbanks, body of work in porcelain, pochair, coptic binding, $1,000 Juror’s Choice Award Anne Lingener-Reece, Anchorage, body of work in silver, $500 award Diane Melms, body of work in textiles, $500 award Rika Mouw, Homer, body of work in multi-media, $500 award Paula Rasmus-Dede, Chugiak, body of work in beads, $500 award Wendy Smith-Wood, Sutton, River Pebble Stole, Arashi shibori, China silk, $500 award Rebecca Starry, Anchorage, body of work in multi-media, $500 award
Margo Klass, Book of Good Intentions I, II, III, IIII Juror’s Choice Award for Body of Work
Exhibit Dates: May 7-29 Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 5-7pm Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday, Noon-6pm, Bear Gallery All events and exhibits are held in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park
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2010 2008 sponsored by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation JUNE
Free Admission All Shows at 7pm Pioneer Park Pickers American Roots Mosquito Creek Folk/Rock/Country Fairbanks Red Hackle Pipe Band Dancers Solstice Complex Folk/Roots Aurelia String Quartet Classical Accordians Blazing Bellows Hot Denali Harps Harmonicas Mike Stackhouse Original Folk Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern Dance Rock/Folk Stephen Moore Karl Monetti Slack Key and Guitar Variations Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern Dance Martin Miller Storyteller Martin Miller Storyteller
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Mondays Mondays Tuesdays Tuesdays Wednesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Thursdays Fridays Fridays Saturdays Saturdays
Swiss Chip Carving Free Admission Shows atduring 7pm ClassAlloffered Pioneer Park Pickers American Roots Tim Robb RootsUAF Guitar/Jazz/Blues Summer Sessions Dance Theatre Fairbanks Theatre Dance
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Sundays Sundays Mondays Mondays Ron Veliz, Lindy Raines & Friends Jazz, Guitar, Solo & Duo Beginning Swiss Chip Carving, a 2 1/2 day course Tuesdays Joe Feller Folk/Country/Rock Tuesdays Joe Feller Folk/Rock/Country is being offered August 6-8 through UAF Summer Live a life full of learning with Wednesdays Acoustic Music that Rocks Wednesdays KitKit Carson Carson Acoustic Music that Rocks Sessions. The class is taught by Philip Marshall at Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning Thursdays Solstice Complex Folk/Roots Thursdays Porch Dogs/Rural Delivery Bluegrass/Roots his Polhavn Woodfabrik Studio. Loaner tools will at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Fridays Falling to Pieces Acoustic Rock Trio Fridays Karl Monetti SlackbeKey & Guitar Variations provided for students. All wood is included and Saturdays Guy Peters Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational Saturdays Martin Miller Storyteller students will come away with at least six carved +30 credit and noncredit art examples. Cost per student is $260 classes are available in 2010 To register, or get more information, go to www. Free uaf.edu/summer/, clickAdmission on Weekend & More, then All Shows atto7pm Weekend Focus Woodworking and scroll down Beginning Swiss • Learn how to make chairs, spoons and Chip Carving, CRN 52146, ART FO46-FO1. Sundays Steve Moore Guitar with Vocals bowls out of greenwood with carver Sundays Steve Moore master Guitar with Vocals John Manthei. more information 457-3895 of or e-mail OriginalFor Music from thecall Marshes AK Mondays Lousiaska Mondays Louise Kowalski • Paint or photograph the beauty of Accordion pmarshall@acetekk.com. Tuesdays Bayer World Music w/Mandolin & Piano Fairbanks’ landscape in field Tuesdays Hunt Stephen Moore art courses. Folk/Rock • Learn the art of Athabascan beadwork Wednesdays Bauer artist Dixie Country/Rock Wednesdays Theresa Hunt Bayer Alexander World Music w/ Mandolin & Piano with Athabascan • and more Accordians Thursdays Blazing Bellows Thursdays Celtic Confusion Traditional Irish Music & Song Fridays Joan Stack Vocalist Regular session credit Fridays Martin Miller courses Storyteller • Learning drawing from local cartoonist Saturdays Martin Miller Storyteller Saturdays Double Tap Rock Ballads Jamie Smith
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• Learn kiln design and construction in just 2 weeks (MAYmester course) • Master ceramics, metalsmithing and more
At the Gazebo near Gold Rush Town Entrance at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way Bring a chair and blanket, is bench Registration open seating is limited www.uaf.edu/summer uaonline.alaska.edu 907-474-7021 866-404-7021 (toll free)
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Fairbanks Arts 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.
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I began using watercolor as my primary medium in the late 1980s during college. I find it exciting to direct the watercolor but allow it to also flow naturally and freely. This painting style has evolved over the years from purely nonrepresentational cut and pieced washes into pieced works reflecting elements of nature and landscape. I work by piecing two different paintings together as an alternative to flat traditional watercolor paintings. I find the figureground shifting between the two works adds interest and depth to my work.
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Since my arrival to Alaska in 2009 I have been provided with entirely new visual experiences that are enriching my work. The vast landscape and natural elements of this awe-inspiring environment visually excite me. The photographs my husband Mike has taken during our journey here and over the course of our hikes, fishing excursions and visits to the many national and state parks in Alaska are a wonderful point in which to embark on new I often begin a nonrepresentational piece by watercolor explorations evidenced in Duet and Water stretching two separate watercolor papers. I score Quartet exhibited in the Annual 64th Parallel and the paper with a serrated knife and apply washes Patterns of Influence: Elements of Change juried of a selected color palate on shows here at the Bear Gallery. the first painting. The second painting begins much the same way but may have a slightly different color palate varying only one or two colors. I allow the washes to merge into each other and travel paths along the scored lines. Once dried, I choose one of the paintings to cut into undulating strips. I place these strips on top of the base painting. When satisfied with the composition I file each edge to ensure the strips are smooth and clean before adhering them to the base painting. Using this technique I create a watercolor with wash and linear qualities in which there are many figureground shifts happening in natural and unexpected ways. This allows one to not only visually travel around the painting but also through the piece
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Copper Room at the Princess Hotel Join the Fairbanks Watercolor Society and Blaines Art Supply to see demonstration of the latest painting materials. Demonstrating artists from the Fairbanks Watercolor Society will be Matt Moberly, Gael Murakami, Tom & Nelda Nixon and more. For info: 389-2114 or 458-7925
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Friends of Cream ing for artists, mus er ’s Field is lookicia storytellers for the ns, writers, and Design Alaska Wild5th annual Arts Walk. Sunday, June 6th from Noo Creamer’s Field n to 5pm Migratory Water fowl Refuge This is an opportun to create, display, ity for area artists an Applications must d sell their work. or before May 7th,be postmarked on an application and 2010. To obtain please contact Friemore information, nd Field at 452-5162 s of Creamer ’s or www.creamersfiel online at d.org .
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May 14th at 10am kids Registration: $25 for adults, $15 for St. 10th Downtown Fairbanks from 1st to
Theater UAF presents
Vinegar tom a play with song by Caryl Churchill
ing 100% of the designated funds (includ r you to your registration fee) will go chosen non-profit.
Directed by new Theatre UAF faculty member Stephan Golux Live at UAF’s Lee H. Salisbury Theater Viewer and parental discretion is advised
April 24-May 2
ART FOR ALASKA PARKS – 2010 ALASKA’S TOP 30 COMPETITION
Tickets: $7-$14 at the Wood Center or Theatre UAF’s Box Office: 474-7751, www.uaf.edu/theatre/season
• 5 Award Catagories • $1000 Grand Prize • Entry Deadline is July 28th • New Expanded Subject Eligility! Prospectus and information can be downloaded from our website www.artforalaskaparks.com
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rn to carve a spoon or Be productive and expressive this summer--lea or experience the aphy bowl from greenwood, master digital photogr se are just a few of The . tion truc art of Scandanavian shrink box cons the opportunities available! e throughout the SSLL catalogs with course details are availabl ding on the UAF buil on community and in the SSLL office, 216 Eiels w.uaf.edu/summer or by campus. Information is also available at ww ). calling 907-474-7021 (866-404-7021 toll free
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this beautiful singing, For those who love be missed! is a concert not to n 12 Adults, $7 Childre Admission is $12 ns. ze iti and Senior C and under, Military r rchased from choi Tickets may be pu e ethin’ Special in th members or at Som x bo e th at lege Road or River Mall on Col t. fore the concer office one hour be
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Society Corner Shane Hurd
I came to Alaska for a weeklong vacation back in 1986. Because I enjoyed the natural beauty and the strong sense of community I found here, I extended my vacation that year for three additional months until I finally had to return home and pay for the trip. After that trip I was hooked. In 1990 I jumped at the chance to move here. I settled in here nicely, married and had two boys. I have been involved in art all my life, enjoying early lessons through both school and private sources (Gillcrease Museum, Phillbrook, etc.) I am currently influenced by the stylistic elegance and simplicity of the 1920s Art Deco movement, tempered with the Alaskan beauty that surrounds us daily. I am drawn to the clear brilliant colors and serendipitous nature of acrylics and watercolors, as well as the overlap of rough ink sketching to the stylistic cuts of block printing.
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Friends of Creamer’s Field is looking for artists, musicians, writers and storytellers for the 5th annual Design Alaska Wild Arts Walk which will take place Sunday June 6th from Noon to 5pm at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. The event is a walking tour of artists displaying and demonstrating their work at stations located near the Farmhouse Visitor Center and on the refuge trails. This is an opportunity for area artists to create, display, and sell their work. Applications must be postmarked on or before May 7th, 2010. To obtain an application and more information, please contact Friends of Creamer’s Field at 452-5162 or online at www.creamersfield.org . Fairbanks Arts Association
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Literary Arts May 17 at 5:30 p.m. Cinema Committee May 18 at 5:30 p.m. Visual Arts May 19 at 5:30 p.m. All meetings are 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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In a Nick
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By Cheryl Joens • Episode 5 “As we speak Rescue teams from around the nation are being mobilized to move into the areas most hit by this unusual storm.” The being made its way across the land devastated by the hurricane and torrential rains and wondered if he and his companions would be blamed. There wasn’t much they could
do about what the inhabitants of this planet would choose to believe. Hopefully the majority would understand that the observers had only used the hurricane to sow the seeds of change. They were not responsible for the actual hurricane, nor could they have prevented this storm from occurring. They did what they could and it was the future
Fairbanks Arts Association is pleased to help foster and support artists of all genres. For the next year we will feature the science fiction series In a Nick by Cheryl Joens. To learn more about FAA’s programs, please contact Melissa@fairbanksarts.org. which could be saved. The being paused and lifted the haversack from around his body and peered inside, then turned it upside down and shook it. There, that was it, this part is accomplished. Time for the next phase. But first he should find some shelter and to dry out and eat something.
I am fortunate to have traveled to all seven continents and have carried a lot of art back to Fairbanks. When I travel and mention Alaska, people respond, “Oh, Alaska!” wither its Mt Kilimanjaro, the Great Wall of China or the Granite Mountains of Antarctica, pictures tell a story. We have many great artists in Fairbanks and I have decided to volunteer to get acquainted with them and their wonderful artwork. To volunteer is one of the ways to serve and give back to our wonderful community. I still recall all the local artists that I have met in my travels and how much I enjoyed them. Additionally, I have personally made 20 greeting cards from my own pencil drawings. I even remember FAA’s first president, Geneva Emmal, so I have been in Alaska a long time!
Volunteer Spotlight - Glory Kuleskey