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State of the Arts The

monthly newsletter of Fairbanks Arts Association

November 2007

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“Promoting contemporary and traditional arts in Alaska’s Interior.”

About F.A.C.E. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~William Butler Yeats The F.A.C.E. (Fairbanks Arts & Cultural Education) Committee is the exciting education component of Fairbanks Arts Association. It is made up of volunteer members from the Fairbanks community that strive to increase and develop arts education within the district. This component is based on two specific programs: the Artist in Schools program and School Performances. In 1977, the Alaska State Council on the Arts created the Artists in Schools program with the goals to: • Enhance students’powers of perception, appreciation of the arts, and abilities to express themselves creatively. • Provide opportunities for artists to develop professionally. • Bring a new approach, appreciation and perspective to arts programs in the schools. • Provide opportunities for artists to communicate with wider audiences. • Provide experiences through programs that encourage the rich living and varied cultures of Alaska. The Artist-in-Schools program is a wonderful opportunity for professional Alaskan artists to showcase their talents while working in depth with a core group of students on their art form which is then shared with the full school and community. The artist will generally go into the schools for 1-2 week long residency and work intensively in a hands-on situation with the students.

Schools pay a fee and work with the AIS program /F.A.C.E. Committee to coordinate a residency. The school’s fee is matched by state and federal funds to pay for the entire residency program. This school year the FACE Committee is proud to feature seven affordable performances by professional artists. The Fairbanks Concert Association will present the powerhouse Celtic musical group Leahy in November, the riveting Moscow Circus’ A Russian Folk Fair in January and the blinding energy of the authentic Japanese drumming group Shidara Taiko in May. Maputo Mensah, an African Dancer and Drummer will bring his infectious rhythms to students in November. Babes in Toyland with Dance Theatre Fairbanks will surely tickle the funny bone of all that attend this Holiday season. Once Upon A Tune with the Fairbanks Symphony Association will feature music by Bach, Handel, Copland Bizet, Stravinsky and others and will also include a “instrument petting zoo” prior to the concert in November. The Fairbanks Drama Association will present a portion of the groundbreaking play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansbury, along with a post-performance discussion in May. Visiting and local artists sometimes conduct workshops, perform educational concerts and give lecture demonstrations as well as offering public performances Get involved! Join the FACE Committee and help make a difference in the lives of the students living right here in Fairbanks. As has been proven time and time again…participation in the arts increases

success in all areas of education! Contact Jeremy Thompson at F.A.A. 456-6485 ext. 222 for more information. The next FACE Committee meeting is scheduled for Monday November 12, 2007 at 4:30 in the Bear Gallery…Join us! Artist in the schools and Arts in Education is supported by the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fairbanks North Star Borough, the FNSBSD, and the Fairbanks Arts Association.

COVER: Though writing seems like a solitary job, writers need outside advice from others. Members of Fairbanks Arts Association’s LongProse Writers Group assist each others by critiquing drafts of novels, memoirs and other large bodies of work. photo by Rachael Kvapil

November Committee Meetings: Community Writers Group November 11 at 1pm FACE Committee November 12 at 4:30pm Annual FAA Board Meeting November 13 at 6:30pm Long Prose Writer’s Group November 15 at 6:30pm Literary Arts Committee November 19 at 5:30pm Cinema Arts Committee November 20 at 5:30pm Visual Arts Committee November 21 at 5:30pm Community Arts Group November 28 at Noon

You feel the vibrations of the heavy beat before you even make out the sound. As you approach you can now clearly hear and see 40 children, in perfect harmony, beating out traditional Alaskan rhythms on drums. All faces are smiling, focused and excited! This is just one of the experiences that the F.A.C.E. Committee creates.

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All meetings in the Bear Gallery, 3rd Floor of the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way. For more information call 456-6485 ext. 227.

New Faces at the Fairbanks Arts Association. Jeremy Thompson-Education Coordinator Jeremy came to Fairbanks this June from Tucson, Arizona to participate in Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre’s acclaimed production of Antony and Cleopatra in which he played Agrippa and The Clown as well as serving as prop master and weapons master. A long time advocate of the arts he has taught theatre for over 15 years, served as administrator to develop educational and outreach arts programs in Northern Nevada and Southern Arizona with various arts organizations, schools and after school arts programs. Most notably helping to create, instruct and site coordinate for, the now wildly successful, Project Shine! a literacy based fine arts after school program targeted at at-risk elementary school children with the Tucson Unified School district. Jeremy looks forward to diving headfirst into the wonderful Fairbanks arts scene lending his talents, experience, energy and time continuing to help create an already vibrant and vital arts community.

Tatiana Piatanova-Program Director Russian born, I came to Alaska in 1992 on a volleyball scholarship thinking that sports was my true calling. I hated Fairbanks, Alaska. It was to cold, to dark and to alien. After a year of pursuing Physical Education Degree I switched my major to English Literature following the idea that if I really wanted to learn the English language I should submerge myself in reading and writing on regular basis and pronounced myself being done with athletic career. As couple of years went by I was running out of credits to take as an English major and came across a class titled “Beginning Drawing.” I decided that it could not have been an easier 3 credits to fill. Little did I know that the class would change my entire outlook on what I wanted out of life and career. So, here I am. The year is 2007 and I am trying to stay afloat as a practicing artist and working for a non-profit art organization. I don’t hate Fairbanks, Alaska anymore. In fact I love it. After many travels around US it is the only place I would ever call home. It is still too cold, too dark, but alas, not alien anymore. Maybe it is because I am a “legal alien” myself now.

Melissa Hougland-Associate Director While still enrolled as an undergraduate student at Northern Arizona University, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to have an internship in Fairbanks. It was a wonderful summer filled with many adventures and when I left, I vowed to return After receiving my Bachelors in Arts Administration from NAU, I then went on to complete my Masters from St. Johns College in Santa Fe, NM. While in Santa Fe, two wonderful events occurred. On July 2nd, two years ago, I got married to my wonderful husband and, shortly after, received an email from June Rogers asking if I would be interested in a position at the Arts Association. So, after only two years of living and working in Santa Fe, we packed up and headed north. Twenty-eight days and 5,000 miles later my husband Jarrett and I arrived in Fairbanks on a slightly snowy day in the early part of May. I enthusiastically embraced my new position as Associate Director for the Fairbanks Arts Association, eagerly picking up where I had left off so long ago. I look forward to many years of advocacy for art and the artists that create it here in Fairbanks, AK.

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.:: Reading Series ‘07 Arnold Griese and Lee Higbee Arnold's love affair with Alaska began in 1951 when he first moved here with his family. For five years, he taught in the village of Tanana on the Yukon River. After returning to the lower fortyeight to obtain his doctorate in children's literature from the University of Alaska. During this time he worked closely with schools in the Athabaskan villages of the interior. Upon retirement, he was granted the title Professor Emeritus, and he still lives in this, his adopted state. Besides writing, his main interest is working with individual students on their manuscripts. Among Arnold’s many writings, he has published four books with Alaskan settings. The first two, At the Mouth of the Luckiest River and The Way of Our People, deal specifically with the Athabaskan culture. The third, The Wind is Not a River, focuses on the Aleut culture. Arnold's fourth children's book is a picture book called Anna's Athabaskan Summer.

Lee Higbie was a third generation cheechako when he arrived at the Arctic Regions Supercomputing Center at UAF three years ago. (His grandfather discovered the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and explored Katmai.) Though he co-authored two books on computers 25 years ago, he only started taking creative writing classes when he arrived here in Fairbanks. He has been writing mostly fiction for the last ten years, especially science and historical fiction. He is active in a number of writers' critique groups.

Gift Shop Artist of the Month: Colleen Reed Art has been fundamental in my life. Drawing even before I could write, I was encouraged by my parents to develop my natural abilities. I started painting at the age of twelve when I received my first set of oil paints for Christmas. Having always drawn and painted mostly for myself, I have developed a very individualistic style. I started to carve in high school. To me, carving was as simple as a 3-D rendition of what I was drawing. I enjoy carving on different types of wood and see each carved animal as an individual. I have painted on saw blades, carved various types of stone, etched clay board, painted on skulls, carved Dall Sheep horns, and drawn on raw hide drums. Each medium has challenged me in new ways. I have tried to incorporate art into my life and my families’ life because it is so very important to me. My husband and I work together as a team incorporating our talents. He frames my paintings and etchings and helps to encourage my curiosity for new mediums by bringing me new and unique items to try such as caribou antlers to carve and a kiln so I could experiment with clay figurines. My goal when I put an animal or landscape to a medium is to show the reality of the scene and not a humanized perception of the scene. I want to show animals as they are and not how we want them to be. I hope you can appreciate the view of the world that I portray in my paintings for each piece is a part of me. I also spin and knit wool, llama fiber, and qiviut fiber. I started knitting with my grandmother when I was little and it has served me and my family well. I started spinning about twenty-five years ago when I moved onto a small hobby farm where I raised sheep. Originally, I was spinning with a drop spindle but about twenty years ago I picked up an antique spinning wheel and I have been spinning ever since. Fairbanks Arts Association • November 2007

Artists Down the Road: Watercolor Wednesday Watercolor Wednesday is a small fledgling group of watercolorists, which is just about to celebrate their one-year anniversary. The group, which began last December, has now grown to about 30 members, many of whom meet routinely every Wednesday night from 7-9pm at the North Pole Grange Hall. The artists meet “for one purpose,” says Tammy Philips. That one purpose is to have the camaraderie of a group of people all passionate about one thing: Painting. During the Wednesday gathering a guest speaker may be brought in to give a talk about watercolor techniques or styles, or a still life may be set up in the room for the artists to paint. “It is so exciting to see how everyone there interprets the same thing.” Watercolor Wednesday is currently accepting submissions for their new show: Mayor Doug Isaacson presents Santa’s Art Show featuring Itty, Bitty, Tiny, Weenie elf sized paintings. This show will present small works, around 8” x 10”, of any media that are ready to sell. The limit is three submissions all due on or before December 4th. Any interested party should contact Tammy Philips at 460-4198.

Photo: Watercolor by Chris Thomas. Chris will be featured in Watercolor Wednesday’s November 1st Friday at the North Pole Grange Hall.

Gift Shop Author of the Month: Deb Vanasse I love my life. I’ve been fortunate to enjoy a huge variety of experiences while surrounded by wonderful people. I was born Debra Lynn Lehmann on September 12, 1957, in St. Paul, Minnesota. My childhood was far from ordinary, as my family lived on the grounds of the state mental institution where my dad worked. The staff consisted mostly of foreign doctors, so I grew up with kids from around the world, always in the shadow of the huge hospital and patients who walked the grounds, each more or less in his own little world. I lived in my own little world much of the time, too. Enamored of the woods and acclimated to the cold, it seemed natural to head to Alaska for my first teaching job. Though there was not a tree to be found in the tundra village of Nunapitchuk where I first taught, it had a beauty of its own, and the people were absolutely marvelous. After all these years, each with its requisite cold, dark winter, I’m still in love with Alaska. I hope my picture books Under the Midnight Sun, Alaska’s Animal Babies, and A Totem Tale capture some of the spirit of this special part of the world. My first travel guide, the Insiders’ Guide to Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska, will be released by Globe Pequot Books in May of 2007.

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November Gallery Exhibits Jean Lester

Artist’s statement I’ve painted off and on all my life. It is what I do, not what I talk about. Every time I start a painting it turns out differently than what I intended, sometimes for the better. In the last few years I have started seeing flowers and landscapes as just form... patches of color and light, movement and balance. To paraphrase Proust “there are no new landscapes, only new perspectives” and I like to see my artistic skill morph as I try to look at everything I see from a different perspective and accept the validity of that vision.

all items/creatures I find spiritually evocative. Often, I am told that these paintings look like dreams or visual illustrations of fantastic, surreal stories. Such was my intention! It has been a great pleasure to create this new body of work. I extend my heartfelt thanks to the Rasmussen Foundation for their generous Project Award with which I was able to purchase the much-needed supplies to create this exhibit.

Elizabeth Eero Irving

Artist Statement In this new series of paintings, I am further exploring ideas of cyclical growth and change within the symbols of plant forms. In addition to this, I’ve begun to incorporate images and elements of recognizable objects. Bones, scissors, bowls, orchids, birds, are

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Festive Dishes Growing up in a large family, we did not eat off hand made pottery or even mass produce ceramic; we ate all our meals off plastic plates because my mom did not want to be cleaning up broken dishes every day. But for holidays and special dinners, we pulled out the “good” dishes. Eating off these special plates emphasized the importance of these events. Those dishes are still in my mother’s cupboard, and every dinner at her house, when those dishes come out, I am brought back to past dinners, often of the negotiations with my siblings over who got the last deviled egg or who had to wash those dishes. This is the role I wish for my pots, to become part of a family ritual, to be pulled from a cupboard years from now with a lifetime of special dinners behind them.

Center: Elizabeth Eero Irving, Decisions Bottom Right: Jean Lester, Untitled

Bottom Left: Teresa Shannon, butterdish

Exhibit Dates: October 5-27 •

Teresa Shannon

Opening Reception: Friday, October 5, 5-8pm

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To Our Wonderful Volunteers! Thank you Gallery Docents

Kari Loughry Edie Barbour Vi Robinson Doreen Fish Robin Barker

Willie Bliss Penny Wakefield Ginny Kawasaki Frances Schulz Rachel Kvapil Cheryl Joens Fawn Solomon-Wyatt Cora Cook Margret Van Flein Jerrie Graham Krista Katalenich Robin Barker

First Friday Crew Cheryl Joens

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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. The Association also helps raise funds for other arts groups, provides technical assistance and support for arts programming, encourages and advises individual artists beginning organizations and sponsors workshops and educational meetings.

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Staff June Rogers, Executive Director , ex 225 Melissa Hougland, Associate Director, ex 226 Sherry Faught, Office Manager/Bookkeeper, ex 223 Tatiana Piatanova, Program Director, ex 227 Carey Steward, Special Projects, ex 224 Gabriel Lopez-Shaw, Tech Assistant Jeremy Thompson, Education Coordinator, ex 222

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Watercolor Society Sherry Fisler (not pictured) Growing up in Ohio and Michigan with a mother who painted and taught art classes made me realize that someday I wanted to learn and enjoy painting. So, when my son graduated from college, I retired from a 24-year elementary teaching career. I then seriously began my artistic endeavors encouraged by my husband, Tap, and our friends. I began taking drawing and watercolor lesson from several Fairbanks’ artists, I have participated at the Summer Arts Festival for the last three years, and I have also taken numerous classes over time. I feel very fortunate to have been able to learn under such wonderful teachers and hope to continue my artistic development and career. I enjoy working with the medium of watercolor and learning what you can do with it. I also particularly enjoy painting landscapes and flowers. Recently, I discovered that I also enjoy matting and framing pictures, which I have included into my newly found career

by forming a framing business out of my home. Dawn Crass Dawn Crass has lived in ten of the 48 states in the US and traveled extensively throughout this country and abroad. In 1994 she moved to Alaska and at last felt she had arrived home. She divides her time between Fairbanks and Pelican, Alaska, fishing, kayaking, hiking and painting. Dawn has studied painting at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and under the direction of Vladimir Zhikhartsev, Gael Murakami, and Karen Austen. Her work has been in juried shows at the University of Alaska, The Civic Center Bear Gallery, and the New Horizons Gallery. It has been shown at the Denali State Bank, and Bureau of Land Management, Fairbanks, AK, and the Wrangle St. Elias Visitors’ Center. The University of Alaska holds one of her pieces in permanent collection. Dawn’s most recent show was a

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collaborative show at the Valdez City Museum in Valdez, Alaska in May 2007. Another show is scheduled at the Pioneer Park Civic Center Bear Gallery in July, 2008. She is a member of the Alaska Arts Association, Fairbanks Watercolor Society, and Anchorage Watercolor Society.

2007 Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities The Alaska State Council on the Arts and The Alaska Humanities Forum along with the Fairbanks Arts Association are proud to announce the following recipients of the Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities.

RECIPIENTS OF THE GOVERNOR’S AWARDS FOR THE ARTS Distinguished Arts Advocacy Award: Jo Ryman Scott, Fairbanks Artist of the Year: Dana Stabenow, Homer Arts Business Leadership: Holland America Line, statewide Margaret Nick Cooke Award for Native Arts and Languages: Katherine Wade, Chickaloon

RECIPIENTS OF THE GOVERNOR’S AWARDS FOR THE HUMANITIES Distinguished Service to the Humanities: Victor Fischer, Anchorage and Marsha Hotch, Haines Alaska History and Cultural Studies Teacher of the Year: Dagmar Phillips, Anchorage

The award presented to the Arts awardees were created this year by Homer artist Carla Potter. The Humanities Awards were designed by Tamara Johannes, Anchorage.

Centerpieces will also be available for sale from Alaskan artists.

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An example of Carla Potter’s work.

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sponsored by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation.

• THURSDAY, November 15:

Il Grido (The Outcry) Film Showings take place at theater in Alaska Centenial Center for Arts at 7 pm Tickets available at the door for $5 For more information please call 456-6485, ext 227 or go to

www.fairbanksarts.org

A compelling romance bound in tragedy, Il Grido is a fascinating missing link in the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, marking his transition from the neorealist impulses expressed in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955) and I Vinti (The Vanquished, 1952), toward the more subjectively stylized approach of such classic works as L’Avventura (1959), La Notte (1961) and Red Desert (1964).

• THURSDAY, December 13:

Little Fugitive

Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of the American independent cinema, Little Fugitive is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. Hailed by critics as a groundbreaking cinematic feat, Little Fugitive won the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival, played in nearly 5,000 theaters in the U.S., and is now recognized as a classic of American independent film.

• THURSDAY, January 10:

Fallen Angels (Duo Iuo tian shi)

Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the most important directors working today, Wong Kar-Wai (Happy Together, Ashes Of Time) has developed a signature style that employs bold, experimental use of photography, music, and editing to capture the tension of the approaching millenium. Originally intended to be a third story in his now classic Chungking Express, Fallen Angels has emerged as what some critics have come to consider his “quintessential work.”

• THURSDAY, February 14:

La Chienne

An ironic, tragicomic account of a déclassé romantic triangle, Renoir’s first sound feature stars Michel Simon as Maurice Legrand, mild-mannered cashier, hen-pecked husband and Sunday painter. After rescuing Lulu (Janie Marèze) from a beating by her pimp, Dédé (Georges Flammand), Legrand sets her up as his mistress. Soon, however, to satisfy Dédé, Lulu demands more and more money and even sells Legrand’s paintings as her own, posing as an American artist named Clara Wood. Totally obsessed with Lulu, Legrand will do anything to win her love. (Yet when circumstances enable him to break free of his marriage, Legrand arrives at Lulu’s apartment only to find her in Dédé’s arms).

• THURSDAY, March 13:

Que Viva Mexico! The 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.

Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry. Quickly ostracized from Hollywood, Eisenstein, Grigory Alexandrov and photographer Eduard Tisse (at the urging of author Upton Sinclair) wandered south of the border where they began filming a highly stylized documentary on the people and volatile social climate of Mexico. Unfortunately, a lack of funds prohibited the film’s completion and the famed director was unable to edit the film. In 1979, by referring to Eisenstein’s extensive notes and sketches, Alexandrov assembled the most definitive version of the film; as close to Eisenstein’s vision as one is ever likely to see.

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Zou Zou

Zou Zou was conceived as a vehicle for Josephine Baker, then among Europe’s most popular entertainers. This was her debut talking film and a huge success in France upon its original release (and upon its 1989 theatrical re-release by Kino International). It is definitely Baker’s show, despite the presence of Jean Gabin, who was himself on the brink of international stardom. November 2007

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Announcements: The Fairban ks Symphon y will present Oct 6-7th : T h e 1 7 th Concert Hall. annual Concerto Co O c t mpetition in Davis to d ase le p is y Societ or l t 2 is 0 B a ks Waterco ith nationally known art rn e s & N o b w The Fairban p o le sh te B rk ra o o k fa ir – fu n o st w n r o lo m o e d rc te ill a w w k d ra is e r fo r th v2. Fran present a o N t 9 e e 2 S w ym ct ry O phony Associ se from loose on a ve ation d n a e Frank France rg la g is h O c t 2 8 yle of paintin lf and bring Fairbanks his unique st lor to mix itse co to re ys u a p w e t n th re g e in iff w d f llo o a st surface, op will consi signature e. The worksh lif to s g tin ish. Frank is a in a fin p O n O ct ob er 17 th to rt a st m SDWS, at 7: 00 pm th e inting fro HS, WFWS, W , approach a pa Fair W W banks Watercolor , o A T S . o W d T ra , lo S o W Society nction, C member of N will have a general me es in Grand Ju com/ s. liv in e mb ta H n er . u sh S o ip meeting W m e C inth TSW and at the Pioneer Park Ci er k at www.art rd o o lo e a th vic in ke Ce d ta nte te r, Blue ill be accep see his work Room. A social hour Participants w f $100.00 wi o ll tm t pr .h si ec o ed se p e the e ce d n A ra frankf are received. for the meeting at 6:30pm. New members ar s 0 5 ck 3 e $ ch is e st th e e co in which 007 always welcome. For information r space. Th 2 u , 7 yo 1 r ld e o b h o to ct ple ase by Wed, O is required call: 479-0804 or 389payment due 114 e-mail 2114 l -2 a 9 8 fin 3 , ith g n w o rr ys e 5 da Cheryl B rmation: Call For more info s on wi ll pr es en t a ha nd Renfro laine jo M ar building.” T urning the th the focus on “hand T ides ( w w w . ceramics workshop wi cs F Cerami Studio, TurningTheTides.org) UA the in ld he be ll wi The workshop mber 28th- Turning the Tides is a e Arts Complex Septe non-profit grassFin the in 5, 41 om Ro t als o op en roots organization based bu ts an cip rti pa 15 in Juneau which 30 th . It is lim ite d to may sign up by calling works to combat pollution of the oc ted es er int e os Th eans, to observers. is conducting a logo co 7-8345. nte 45 st. at r En the trie sa s are Od y irle Sh due on October 5.

Achievements in the Arts The MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant was awarded to Sven Haakanson, Jr., who is the Chairman of the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Director of the Alutiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska. This is a $ 500,000 grant made to outstanding Americans whose work in their field has national impact. Kalesha Pearson, daughter of Vander and Debra Pearson of Fairbanks, has been accepted into the Acting Intern Program at Fences Theatre Company in Minneapolis. This is a professional training program with national auditions for competitive enrollment. Kalesha has been acting in Fairbanks community theatre - specifically Fairbanks Drama Association - for the past five years. The Fairbanks Symphony Association held its 17th annual Concerto Competition over the weekend. There were 29 contestants in four categories over the two day competition. The competition adjudicators were Ms. Carrie Rehkopf and Mr. Nikolas Caoile, both from Central Washington University. The corporate sponsor was Great Northwest, Inc. The winners are: Category A: (11 years old and under) Joy Linyue Fan, Violin Category B: (12-15 years old) Sasha Bult-Ito, Piano Category C: (16 -18 years old) Zachary Spontak, Violin Category D: (Full time UAF students) Shelah Moreno-Jones, Piano These young artists will perform their solo works with the Fairbanks Symphony at the Design Alaska Family Holiday Celebration Concert on December 2nd, 2007 at 4pm.

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Announcements: Arts Calendar/Announcements: Museum Events: Arctic Transformations: The Jewelry of Samuel and Denise Wallace Saturday, October 13, 2007 - Sunday, January 13, 2008 Using fossil ivory, silver, gold and richly colored stones, Denise and Samuel Wallace create jewelry inspired by Denise’s Chugach Aleut heritage and by Alaska’s people, animals and natural environments. This 25-year retrospective exhibit showcases their elaborate work. Organized by the Anchorage Museum at Rasmussen Center. Free with museum admission. Artisan Invitational Expo & Sale Friday, November 16 • 3 - 7 PM Saturday, November 17 • 10 AM - 5 PM Alaskan artists display and sell their work in this museum invitational event. Beadwork, fiber arts, jewelry, glass, pottery and other fine crafts will be available for purchase from the artists. Free admission. Fairbanks Drama Association and Children’s Theatre presents the delightful musical: MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS, November 30 - December 16 at the Riverfront Theatre on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Saturdays and Sundays with Matinees at 2pm. For Tickets, phone 456-PLAY. Nov 21, 2007 Wednesday at 7:00pm the Fairbanks Watercolor Society will have their monthly meeting at Pioneer Park Civic Center, Blue Room. Social hour at 6:30pm followed by general membership meeting. New members welcome. Information: 479-0804 or 389-2114 Fairbanks Symphony will present:

Nov 9 at 10am: Fairbanks Symphony Children’s Concert, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Campus. Tickets only through Fairbanks Arts Association Nov 10 at 7pm: Anchorage Youth Symphony & Fairbanks Youth Symphony Joint Concert, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Campus. Adults: $5, 18 and below: Free Dec 2 at 2pm: Fairbanks Symphony Association Silent Auction, Great Hall, UAF Campus Dec 2 at 4pm: Design Alaska Family Holiday Celebration Concert, Davis Concert Hall, UAF Campus. Adults: $30, Seniors/Military: $25, Students/Child: $10 For more information call 474-5733 or visit www.FairbanksSymphony.org The City of Ketchikan, in conjunction with the Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council (KAAHC), is requesting concept proposals for artwork to be commissioned for one or more public use sites in the downtown area. Ketchikan Public Art Works, a committee of KAAHC, suggests the following areas for artwork: 1) the dock pilings in Thomas Basin Harbor, 2) the seating area on the central port dock near cruise ship Berths I and II, and 3) the port promenade light pole cross bars near Berth III (Figure 2). The Ketchikan City Council and Review Panel will entertain proposals by both a single artist and teams of artists for these suggested sites. Proposal deadline is Wednesday, November 28th, 2007. This project has a total budget of $75,000. For more information please call 907-225-2211 or email info@ketchikanarts.org Join local writers for the 25th birthday celebration of Alaska Quarterly Review, an Alaskan literary gem with a national reputation. Music, refreshments, poetry and prose readings will take place at Gulliver’s Books, 3525 College Road, beginning at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 29th. Fairbanks Counseling and Adoption, in collaboration with Joel’s Place is hosting a Candlelight Vigil for Homeless Youth on Wednesday, November 14th at 6pm in the Pioneer Park Parking Lot. After the vigil, join us for a reception in the Pioneer Park Civic Center where we will present poetry and stories written by independent youth in our community. All donations at this event will go towards the Street Outreach Program at Fairbanks Counseling & Adoption. Call Sarah at 378-4392 with questions or concerns.

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Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage Paid Fairbanks, Alaska Permit No. 17

P.O. Box 72786 Fairbanks, Alaska 99707

Volunteer of the Month: Shane Hurd I visited Fairbanks in the mid-80’S and found a strong Arts community, even in a time of financial crunch. The strength of this community was a large part of what drew me here in 1990 when I got the chance to move here through the UAF Fine Arts program; and, as a student, I joined the local Arts Association. Over that winter, I found that this “local” Arts Association had strength of ties all over the state. I also fell in love, twice--once with a young lady, and also this town we were finding to be home. As I have stabilized my life, settling into a home (complete with wife, kids, pets, and a white picket fence), I have had more opportunity to volunteer with the Fairbanks Arts Association. I have helped with the Art Expo, A Very Special Day for the Arts, Dinners in the Homes, and now serve on the Board of Directors. The more I see behind the scenes at the Association, the stronger my ties within the community become. I enjoy meeting the interesting and unique characters who share a belief in creating an open environment for the Arts.

Fairbanks Arts Association

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November 2007