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State of the Arts

“Promoting contemPorary and traditional arts in alaska’s interior”

Published monthly by fairbanks arts association

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may 2010 P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707Vol. 10, Issue 5

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Thursday, May 20 6:30-9:00 p.m.$15 in Advance, $20 at the doorAlaska Centennial Center for the ArtsPioneer Park

2nd Annual Old-Fashioned Box Social

Fairbanks arts association • May 20102

Just as last year, Charlie’s Old Fashioned Box Social will revisit a custom of days gone by when time was a bit slower

Since the beginnings of this country, a Box Social was a great way to raise money for a wor thy cause . Traditionally, a young lady prepared a tasty lunch, which was packed in a pretty basket or box and put up for auction. In addition to winning the lunch, the gentleman with the highest bid also won the company of the lady who prepared it. Her identity was supposed to be a secret until the bidding was over, but usually the bidder received advance information from his sweetheart.

While we won’t be auctioning off the company of the box-maker, Fairbanks Arts Association is excited to host our second Charlie’s Old

Fashioned Box Social. This year’s social will feature live music, a cash bar and, of course, the specially prepared boxed dinners that will be up for auction. Silent auction and out cry auction items will also be featured during this

special fundraising event.

Charlie’s Box Social will be held on May 20th from 6:30 to 9:00pm in the Exhibit Hall of the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park. Tickets f o r t h i s e n j o y a b l e evening fundraiser are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and include a non-alcoholic drink

and dessert. For those who are unsuccessful bidders, there will be boxed dinners for two of cold chicken, pasta salad and fruit available for purchase at $20.

Charlie’s pARTy for the Arts An Old-Fashioned Box Social

Join in the fun – volunteer to

decorate and donate a box or a basket

with dinner for two for the auction,

or donate a silent auction item. Ask

your friends and neighbors to join you

in enjoying a relaxed evening of old

time music at an old fashioned social.

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Board of DirectorsLorraine Peterson, PresidentMarcella Hill, Vice PresidentRebecca Burns, SecretaryMyrna Colp, Treasurer

Members:Joan Stack Shane Hurd Darleen Masiak Calaya Williams Carol WilburDaron CrassMartin Miller

F a i R B a n k S a R t S a S S o C i a t i o n

FAA Phone: (907) 456-6485 • www.FairbanksArts.org

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.

StaffJune Rogers, Executive Director , ex 225 [email protected] Hougland, Associate Director, ex 226 [email protected] Seward, Program Coordinator, ex 222 [email protected] Schmidt, Bookkeeper/Office Manager, ex 223 [email protected]

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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/charity-walk 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!

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.:: Reading Series ‘10

Jean Anderson & Cindy Hardy May 1, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery • FREE

Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way

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.

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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.



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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.

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.

Since the spring of 2004 the Museum of the Aleutians, in collaboration with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Marine Advisory Program has

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 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.

For more info on the Museum, please visit http://www.aleutians.org

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May G a l l e r y e x h i b i t

Exhibit Dates: May 7-29Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 5-7pm

Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday, Noon-6pm, Bear GalleryAll events and exhibits are held in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park

Earth, Fire and Fibre XXVII 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.

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 series of stencils is used to create a print.

Entries included 313 works of art from 113 Alaska artists. For the exhibition, juror Patricia Watkinson selected 82 works from 50 artists. Watkinson is the

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.”

Earth, Fire and Fibre will tour the state for one year. This exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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

Featuring local artists: Margo Klass, Annie Duffy, Karin Franzen, Richard Kacsur and Patricia Walsh


+30 credit and noncredit art classes are available in 2010

Weekend Focus• Learn how to make chairs, spoons and bowls out of greenwood with master carver John Manthei. • Paint or photograph the beauty of Fairbanks’ landscape in field art courses.• Learn the art of Athabascan beadwork with Athabascan artist Dixie Alexander• and more

Regular session credit courses• Learning drawing from local cartoonist Jamie Smith• Learn kiln design and construction in just 2 weeks (MAYmester course)• Master ceramics, metalsmithing and more

Registration is openwww.uaf.edu/summeruaonline.alaska.edu

907-474-7021866-404-7021 (toll free)

Live a life full of learning with Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning

at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Swiss Chip Carving Class offered during

UAF Summer SessionsBeginning Swiss Chip Carving, a 2 1/2 day course

is being offered August 6-8 through UAF Summer Sessions. The class is taught by Philip Marshall at his Polhavn Woodfabrik Studio. Loaner tools will be provided for students. All wood is included and students will come away with at least six carved examples. Cost per student is $260

To register, or get more information, go to www.uaf.edu/summer/, click on Weekend & More, then Woodworking and scroll down to Beginning Swiss Chip Carving, CRN 52146, ART FO46-FO1.

For more information call 457-3895 or e-mail [email protected].

JUNE

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Sundays Mosquito Creek Folk/Rock/Country Mondays Solstice Complex Folk/RootsTuesdays Blazing Bellows AccordiansWednesdays Mike Stackhouse Original FolkThursdays Stephen Moore Rock/FolkFridays Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern DanceSaturdays Martin Miller Storyteller

Sundays Tim Robb Roots Guitar/Jazz/BluesMondays Ron Veliz, Lindy Raines & Friends Jazz, Guitar, Solo & Duo Tuesdays Joe Feller Folk/Rock/CountryWednesdays Kit Carson Acoustic Music that Rocks Thursdays Porch Dogs/Rural Delivery Bluegrass/RootsFridays Karl Monetti Slack Key & Guitar VariationsSaturdays Guy Peters Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational

Sundays Steve Moore Guitar with VocalsMondays Lousiaska Original Music from the Marshes of AKTuesdays Hunt Bayer World Music w/Mandolin & PianoWednesdays Theresa Bauer Country/RockThursdays Blazing Bellows AccordiansFridays Joan Stack Vocalist Saturdays Martin Miller Storyteller

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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.

sponsored by Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation

All Shows at 7pmFree Admission


At the Gazebo near Gold Rush Town Entrance at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way

Bring a chair and blanket, bench seating is limited

For more information call 456-6485 ext. 226


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S Sundays PioneerParkPickers AmericanRootsMondays FairbanksRedHacklePipeBandDancers Tuesdays AureliaStringQuartetClassicalWednesdays HotDenaliHarps HarmonicasThursdays TundraCaravan MiddleEasternDanceFridays KarlMonetti SlackKeyandGuitarVariationsSaturdays MartinMiller Storyteller

Sundays PioneerParkPickers AmericanRootsMondays DanceTheatreFairbanksTheatreDance Tuesdays JoeFeller Folk/Country/RockWednesdays KitCarson AcousticMusicthatRocksThursdays SolsticeComplex Folk/RootsFridays FallingtoPieces AcousticRockTrioSaturdays MartinMiller Storyteller

Sundays SteveMoore GuitarwithVocalsMondays LouiseKowalski AccordionTuesdays StephenMoore Folk/RockWednesdays HuntBayer WorldMusicw/Mandolin&PianoThursdays CelticConfusion TraditionalIrishMusic&SongFridays MartinMiller Storyteller Saturdays DoubleTap RockBallads


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 figure-ground shifting between the two works adds interest and depth to my work.

I often begin a nonrepresentational piece by stretching two separate watercolor papers. I score the paper with a serrated knife and apply washes of a selected color palate on 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 figure-ground shifts happening in natural and unexpected ways. This allows one to not only visually travel around the painting but also through the piece

seeing it as two individual pieces that integrate into one painting.

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 watercolor explorations evidenced in Duet and Water Quartet exhibited in the Annual 64th Parallel and Patterns of Influence: Elements of Change juried

shows here at the Bear Gallery.

G i f t S h o p A r t i s t o f t h e M o n t hNancy McHugh


To submit calendar information, please email [email protected] or call 456-6485 ext.226

5th Annual Design AlaskaWild Arts WalkFriends of Creamer’s Field is look-ing for artists, musicians, writers, and storytellers for the 5th annual Design Alaska Wild Arts Walk.

Sunday, June 6th from Noon to 5pm Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl RefugeThis 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 .

Painting DemonstrationsFriday May 14, 2010

6:00p - 9:00p Copper Room at the Princess Hotel

Join the Fairbanks Watercolor Society and Blaines Art Supply to see demon-stration 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

Fairbanks Watercolor Society

Demonstration May 14 • 6-9 p.m.

Copper Room, Princess Hotel

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TENTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Sunday May 23, 4:00 pm

UAF Davis Concert Hall

Northland Youth Choir, conducted by

Melissa Downes will be joined in concert

by the Alaska Children’s Choir, conducted

by Janet Stotts.

For those who love beautiful singing, this

is a concert not to be missed!

Admission is $12 Adults, $7 Children 12

and under, Military and Senior Citizens.

Tickets may be purchased from choir

members or at Somethin’ Special in the

River Mall on College Road or at the box

office one hour before the concert.

Fairbanks Alaska Visitor Industry’s Walk for Charity

May 14th at 10am

Registration: $25 for adults, $15 for kids

Downtown Fairbanks from 1st to 10th St.

100% of the designated funds (including your registration fee) will go to your chosen non-profit.

ART FOR ALASKA PARKS – 2010ALASKA’S TOP 30 COMPETITION

• 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

UAF Summer Sessions &

lifeloNG leARNiNG31 Art Classes Available this Summer!

Be productive and expressive this summer--learn to carve a spoon or

bowl from greenwood, master digital photography or experience the

art of Scandanavian shrink box construction. These are just a few of

the opportunities available!

SSLL catalogs with course details are available throughout the

community and in the SSLL office, 216 Eielson building on the UAF

campus. Information is also available at www.uaf.edu/summer or by

calling 907-474-7021 (866-404-7021 toll free).

Theater UAF presentsViNeGAR Tom

a play with song by Caryl Churchill

Directed by new Theatre UAF faculty member Stephan Golux

Live at UAF’s Lee H. Salisbury TheaterViewer and parental discretion is advised

April 24-May 2 Tickets: $7-$14 at the Wood Center or Theatre UAF’s Box Office: 474-7751,

www.uaf.edu/theatre/season


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5th Annual Design Alaska Wild Arts Walk

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 .

Shane hurdI 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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May Committee Meetings:

Literary Arts May 17 at 5:30 p.m.

Cinema CommitteeMay 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.

Thank you to our volunteers!

Thank you VSa Volunteers!

Vi Robinson

Marcella Hill

Barbara Clark

Nancy McHugh

Margret Van Flein

Lee Harris

Mary Lou Jorissen

Liz Bent

Shirley Odsather

Gayle Miller

Christina Thompson

Cora Cook

Colleen Hickman

Angela Rosebeary

Terry Glendinning

Peggy Birkenbuel

The Fairbanks Arts Association relies on donations each

year from community members just like you. Our needs

vary from time to time, however right now we need:

Thank you for your generosity in continuing to support Faa!

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“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

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.

In a Nick

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 [email protected].

By Cheryl Joens • Episode 5

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!

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