FAA0709newsletter(6)

State of the Arts

community calendar p8-9 watercolor society p10

Faa cabin #13 p10 volunteer thanks p11committee meetings p11

volunteer spotlight p12

p2 Far north Film Festp3 arts down the roadp4 reading seriesp4 giFt shop authorp5 giFt shop artistp6-7 gallery exhibit

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

Published monthly by fairbanks arts association

i n t h i s i s s u e

July 2009

P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707

Vol. 9, Issue 7

Freeevent!

July 18 & 19, 2009

Fairbanks arts association • July 20092

2009 Far North Conservation Film Festival

The Far North Conservation Film Festival presents a diverse group of outstanding films about the conservation and sustainability of wildlife, wild places and cultures around the world. Fairbanks Arts Association is proud to be a partner is this event along with the Alaska Public Lands Information Center, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and Recreation Department and the UAF Wildlife Society.

Begun in 2003, the Far North Conservation Film Festival celebrates the diversity and sustainability of wildlife, wild places and cultures around the world and in the far north through the eye of independent film. The Far North Conservation Film Festival is a place for filmmakers, local people and local businesses

to support media that matters in promoting global conservation.

This year the film festival will present a variety of films for kids

and adults alike. You can choose to attend all the films or just pick a few. Admission is free! This year’s festival will be July 18th and 19th at the following locations:

“Ride of the Mergansers” from the 2008 Far North Conservation Film Festival

July 18 • 6-10pm: University of Alaska Fairbanks Schaible

Auditorium located within the Bunnell Building on the east side of the UAF Campus

July 19 • 1-3pm:

Family Day at the New Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center with kids

activities and films located at 101 Dunkel St. in downtown Fairbanks

July 19 • 6-10pm: Pioneer Park Centennial Center for the

Arts Theater located at 2300 Airport Way in Pioneer Park

“Oil + Water” from the 2008 Far North Conservation Film Festival

Freeevent!

July 2009 • Fairbanks arts association 3

Board of DirectorsLorraine Peterson, PresidentMarcella Hill, Vice PresidentLeafy McBride, SecretaryMyrna Colp, Treasurer

Members:Joan Stack Shane Hurd Darleen Masiak Calaya Williams Rebecca Burns Mary Ann FortuneMartin 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

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] Faught, Office Manager/Bookkeeper, ex 223 [email protected] Schwartz, Program Coordinator, ex 227 [email protected] Rehfield, Education Coordinator, ex 222 [email protected]

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Young Native Fiddlers will be representing Alaska at the National Old-time Fiddle Contest in Weiser, Idaho this summer, from June 22nd to June 27th. Local students, Calvyn Ambrose, Falesha Blackburn, Blake Gwalthney and Tyler Simon, will be traveling to the competition with Athabascan fiddler Bill Stevens and Athabascan guitarist Josephine Malemute. Bill Stevens competed in the Weiser contest many years ago and is planning to compete again. The organizers at the National Old-time Fiddle Contest were so excited to have Bill Stevens return, and to be bringing children, that they changed the appointment of ‘home state’ from Utah to Alaska. This means that Alaska will be the state focused on throughout the week. The Fairbanks group will lead the parade through town on a float depicting the seasons, a dog team and the northern lights. It also means that Bill and these Fairbanks youth will be performing in front

of thousands each evening of the festival. These children, their families and their instructors, especially Bill Stevens, have worked hard to make this dream a reality. The Young Native Fiddlers are very appreciative of the support from the Fairbanks community and the Fairbanks Arts Association. We are proud to represent Fairbanks and Alaska.


f a i r b a n k s a r t s a s s o c i a t i o n

.:: Reading Series ‘09

Fairbanks Arts Association Community Writer’s GroupJuly 4, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery

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

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

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

GAZEBONIGHTSpresents

2008

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


2009

S Sundays Tim Robb Roots Guitar/Jazz/BluesMondays Karl Monetti Slack Key & Guitar VariationsTuesdays Theresa Bauer Country/RockWednesdays Mike Stackhouse Original FolkThursdays Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern DanceFridays Jean McDermott Fiddle Tunes- Celtic & MoreSaturdays Guy Peters Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational

Sundays Pioneer Park Pickers American RootsMondays Dance Theatre Fairbanks Theatre Dance Tuesdays Joe Feller Folk/Country/RockWednesdays Kit Carson Acoustic Music that RocksThursdays Solstice Complex Folk/RootsFridays Falling to Pieces Acoustic Rock Trio Saturdays Martin Miller Storyteller

Sundays Steve Moore Guitar with VocalsMondays Louise Kowalski Accordion Tuesdays Stephen Moore Folk/RockWednesdays Hunt Bayer World Music w/ Mandolin & Piano Thursdays Celtic Confusion Traditional Irish Music & SongFridays Martin Miller Storyteller Saturdays Double Tap Rock Ballads

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

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

GAZEBONIGHTSpresents

2008

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



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


2009

S Sundays Tim Robb Roots Guitar/Jazz/BluesMondays Karl Monetti Slack Key & Guitar VariationsTuesdays Theresa Bauer Country/RockWednesdays Mike Stackhouse Original FolkThursdays Tundra Caravan Middle Eastern DanceFridays Jean McDermott Fiddle Tunes- Celtic & MoreSaturdays Guy Peters Contemporary Tribal/Inspirational

Sundays Pioneer Park Pickers American RootsMondays Dance Theatre Fairbanks Theatre Dance Tuesdays Joe Feller Folk/Country/RockWednesdays Kit Carson Acoustic Music that RocksThursdays Solstice Complex Folk/RootsFridays Falling to Pieces Acoustic Rock Trio Saturdays Martin Miller Storyteller

Sundays Steve Moore Guitar with VocalsMondays Louise Kowalski Accordion Tuesdays Stephen Moore Folk/RockWednesdays Hunt Bayer World Music w/ Mandolin & Piano Thursdays Celtic Confusion Traditional Irish Music & SongFridays Martin Miller Storyteller Saturdays Double Tap Rock Ballads

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 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.

The Community Writers Group will be reading from their soon to be released Anthology “Out of Darkness, Into the Light”. CWG has hosted at least 70 writers since

its inception in 1998. The current cadre of authors includes school teachers, hoteliers, physicists and more than a few professional communicators.

Saturday, July 4th, readers will include: Joyce Freeman-Clark, Edward L. Hoch, Lucy Evans, Jim Durkee, Walter Rutherford and Rachael Kvapil.

Presale copies of the book will be able to be ordered at this reading.


Gift Shop Artist of the Month: Stephanie Little Wolf Stepahnie Little Wolf uses a needlefelting sculpturing technique to create people and animals out of sheep, buffalo and her Alaskan husky dog’s wool! She has been learning the technique since last December. Her first art show was Fairbanks Arts Association’s Art EXPO 09 where she sold her first pieces: a sled, musher and dog team and an Australian Aboriginal Tribesman.

“I love to be creative, and throughly enjoy art and working with kids. I also write poetry, articles, music, play the guitar and sing. My family and dog team are a really big creative influence on me, as is the natural world! I love to create wolves and dogs, but am just as excited about my new Sasquatch or Alaskan Yeti.”

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Associates of FairbanksOffi ce:

452-6387June basket raffle winner!

Congratulations toCheryl Joens!


Exhibit Dates: July 3-August 1Opening Reception: Friday, July 3, 5-7pm, Bear Gallery

Sandra Harrington, AnchorageAngle of Reflection, Acrylic on Gesso Board

With a Yankee heritage and a career focused on the oceans, I have always wanted to learn how to make ‘Nantucket’ baskets, which were first woven by the lightship keepers off the coast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, to while away the hours. My wife, Cynthia, bought me my first mold as a birthday present shortly after we settled in Fairbanks, and after making a number of berry baskets for myself and friends, I began to experiment with different materials and patterns. I particularly enjoy working with baleen and hard woods and although I mostly make Nantucket lightship style baskets, I have started to work a bit with reed and paper. My wife is also a crafter (sewing, smocking, rug braiding, weaving) and she makes the linings for the purses, totes and jewelry baskets.

-Craig Dorman

July G a l l e r y e x h i b i t Craig Dorman

Craig Dorman, Baskets


I first became exposed to the visual impact of prayer flags after climbing over Thorong La, the 17,600 foot pass on the trail that circles the Annapurna Mountains of Nepal. This dry, windblown area has few

trees except within the grounds of the Muktinath Temple, a pilgrimage site for Hindus and Buddhists.

There a small forest of gnarled trees is strung with hundreds of prayer flags in various stages of color and decay. Some flags have deteriorated to such a ragged and transparent state that one can clearly see the mountains through them.

This series is the result of a number of years composing paintings with prayer flags and mountain villages in mind. What were first more realistic depictions have become increasingly abstract, using rectangular shapes and blocks of color that give a sense of the space and movement that represent the Himalayas of Nepal.

-Susan Farnham

Craig Dorman

Susan Farnham

Susan Farnham, Hill Town

Susan Farnham, Prayer Flags at the Pass

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Fairbanks Shakespeare Theater presents Othello, directed by Graham Watts, July 9-26, 2009 at Jack Townsend Point at UAF. The show performs Thurs-Sat at 7:30 and Sundays at 2 PM. For more information please call (907)457-7638

Ongoing, throughout the summer, Northland Youth Choir will be auditioning for our 09-10 Tenth Anniversary season which begins in September, 2009. Youth, ages 8 to 18, with unchanged treble voices are invited to audition. No fee for the auditions. For more information about our choir and about the audition process, visit www.northlandchoir.org, or phone Melissa Downes at 388-0543.

On July 11, Fairbanks Drama Association will host the 7th Annual MYSTERY DINNER THEATRE under the big top tent on the Riverfront Theatre lawn. The event includes a catered dinner and a show (“The Humor and Wisdom of Mark Twain”) in the tent featuring local celebrities. Tickets are $ 75 per person or $ 550 for a table of eight for this fund raiser. Call 456-PLAY to reserve your tickets. The event begins at 6:30pm. From July 13 - August 2, Fairbanks Drama Association will host the YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE ENSEMBLE class as Session # 3 for Drama Project 2009. This is a professional theatre training program for young people ages 12 - 18 years. Classes meet M-F from 1-6pm at the Riverfront Theatre. This class prepares and performs the full production of: KIDNAPPED IN LONDON for public performances on July 31, August 1 and August 2. To register, phone 456-PLAY or download the registration brocure at www.fairbanksdrama.org.

Young Peoples’ Theatre Ensemble

Fairbanks Drama Association’s Young Peoples’ Theatre Ensemble presents KIDNAPPED IN LONDON for three performances only at the Riverfront Theatre. July 31 and August 1 at 7:30pm and August 2nd at 2:00pm. All tickets are $ 5.00. Call 456-PLAY to reserve tickets.

Achievement in the Arts!Youth Choir Sings Its Way to NashvilleAfter auditioning and then receiving a formal invitation to participate, Northland Youth Choir will be traveling to Nashville, Tennessee in July to sing in the Crossroads Children’s Chorus Festival in Nashville, Tennesse (www.crossroadschildrenschorusfestival.com). The week-long, international festival brings together youth choirs to perform under the direction of Canadian composer and guest conductor Stephen Hatfield. The festival chorus will perform the final concert in the Grand Ole Opry House and will be joined in concert by Country artist Ronnie Milsap, operatic soprano Kallen Esperian and Broadway artist Lawrence Hamilton. Northland Youth Choir wishes to thank the Fairbanks arts community for supporting our efforts to attend this very unique festival.


Oppertunities in Juneau!

Juneau Jazz and Classics is seeking an energetic professional to oversee an annual 10-day music festival based in Juneau and entering its 24th year. Email [email protected] or call 907 463 3378.

Juneau Arts and Humanites Council is looking for a facilites manager. Email [email protected] for more information.

To submit calendar information, please

email [email protected] or call 456-6485

ext.226

North Star Bal let Summer Dance In tens ive , for ages 12-19 will be held June 15-July 10 on the Tanana Valley Fairgrounds. Call 451-8800 for information.

University of Alaska Museum of the North Special Exhibits Gallery presents- The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World from May 16 - October 3, 2009. The museum is open daily from 9am - 9pm. For more information please call 474.7505

There is still time to register for Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival classes! Check out FSAF’s website: www.fsaf.org and click on Registration Form. Follow the easy directions for registering on page one of that Form. You can find the Festival catalog on our website, too: Simply click on ‘catalog’ in the colored box to the right. If you’d like a hard copy of the catalog, you may pick one up at Dateline Copies on the corner of College Road and University Avenue. The Artworks next door to Dateline Copies has them too and so do art galleries downtown. There are also catalogs outside Jo Scott’s at 2757 College Road (at the wagon wheel). Our calendar of events during the two weeks is online too. If you have questions please give FSAF a call at 474-8869. There is a terrific Festival planned this year!

State of the Arts

Fairbanks Arts Association invites

you to advertise in our State of the Arts Newsletter!

Rates as low as $25Members receive 5% off all prices!

For more info call 456-6485 ext. 226

Friends of Creamers Field present

Saturday Mornings with an Artist June – August • Every Saturday

10am-2pm

Each Saturday, a different local artist will set up their art for viewing and for sale in the back room of the Creamer’s Field Farmhouse Visitor Center. Drop-in anytime and come meet some of our local artists! Call 452-5162 or check in at www.creamersfield.org for more information and the list of artists by date.

Alaska Arts Education Consortium is seeking an

Executive Director! Position begins on August 1, 2009.

Director will oversee the day-to-day operations of the

AAEC Board and Consortium and activities, aligned

with the three AAEC goals. Any candidate must have

computer, organizational and communication skills.

Arts/Education background preferred. Please email

[email protected] for more information.


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Anne AleshireGrowing up on a farm in Michigan, I learned to appreciate the natural world

around me by spending plenty of time outdoors. The only way to experience and capture the uniqueness of a place is by observing it at different times of the day and in different seasons. I fell in love with painting in high school and have been painting ever since. I joined the Fairbanks Watercolor Society in the summer of 2006. All painting mediums interest me as each have their own characteristics and challenges.

“An artist is more than a copyist. ...painting is really the result of the subtle interaction of the palette, the canvas, nature, and your own tastes - that your personal opinion and vision is as important as the trees and streams that you strive to paint. ” - Roger W. Curtis

Neville Abbott JacobsNeville Abbott Jacobs grew up in California but came to Anchorage, Alaska in l949 with her parents. She loved

painting as a little girl, and her grandmother, a competent artist, taught and encouraged her. She lived in the well known art community of Laguna Beach as a girl which also gave her the opportunity to be exposed to California landscape paintings and artists. She held her first one-woman show in Anchorage in l952. Soon after she moved to Fairbanks to attend the University of Alaska where she majored in Anthropology but minored in art and she then exhibited at the Alaska House Gallery regularly and since then her work has become available through most local galleries. She has travelled over Alaska extensively and painted from the Arctic to Southeast Alaska. In l968, she married a well known pilot, Bob Jacobs, and began traveling to many parts of the world, from Africa to Asia and Europe, which has provided much inspiration for her work, but her major love is for the Alaska wilderness landscape.

Neville originally began painting in oil but found the spontaneity of watercolor an inspiration so that for many years most of her work has been in that medium, although she continues to work in other water based media as well as oils. Neville Jacobs’ work hangs in public buildings and many private collections around the world. She has received awards for her work, has been credentialed by the Alaska Watercolor Society and is a life member of the Fairbanks Watercolor Society. She makes her home in Fairbanks, and continues to paint outdoors “on the spot”

Come Visit Fairbanks Arts Association's Cabin 13!Fairbanks Arts Association is pleased to announce the opening of Cabin 13: a co-op style gift shop in Gold Rush

Town in Pioneer Park. This unique cabin is a partnership between seven artists and Fairbanks Arts Association. Each Artist Partner has the opportunity to place their work in the cabin and in turn staff the Cabin one day a week throughout the summer. Come visit Cabin 13 and see the wonderful work of Shane Hurd, Myrna Colp, Katie Pride, Shirley Odsather, Frances Schulz, Deb McQueen, Seth Schwartz and Liz Bent.

Members recieve 10% off all gift shop items in the Bear Gallery Gift Shop and Cabin 13!


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July Committee Meetings:

Literary Arts July 20th at 5:30 p.m.

Cinema CommitteeJuly 21st at 5:30 p.m.

Visual Arts July 15th at 5:30 p.m.

All meetings in the Bear Gallery, 3rd Floor of the Alaska Centennial Center

for the Arts, Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way.

All meetings are subject to change.For more information call 456-6485 ext. 227.

Thank you for helping to make

Charlie’s pARTy for the Arts:

An Old-Fashioned Box Social a success!!

Thank you for your In-Kind Donations!

Sue Cole:Note Cards

Peggy Birkenbuel:Step Ladder

Thank you to

our volunteers!Pat Rawert

Kathy Richardson

Karen Jansen

Vi Robinson

Marcella Hill

Tatiana Piatanova

Doreen Fish

Kathy Dubbs

Deb McQueen

Phil Carrico

Peggy Birkenbuel

Cheryl Joens

Barbra Pomar

Linda Phisterer

Margret Van Flein

Katherine Voss

Bryn McElroy

Lee Harris

Mary Lou Jorrisen

Betsy BearLiz Beat

Support FAA by giving

a gift membership!

Only $35 a year. Call

456-6485 for more

information.

Rebecca Burns

Calaya Williams

Marcella Hill

Darleen Masiak

Lorraine Peterson

Kurt Dinsmore

Liz Bent

Penny Wakefield

Barbara Short

Tatiana Piatanova

Jessica Rehfield

Myrna Colp

Anna Kegley

Dan Kennedy

Pioneer Park Pickers

Peter Fricilone

Karen Austin

Karen Geraghty

Joe Campbell

Bill Brody

Firmin & Gael Murakami

Sue Cole

Todd Sherman

Inari Kylanen

Odom Company

Fred Meyer’s- West

Hot Licks Ice Cream

Rachael Kvapil

Shane Hurd & Family

P.O. Box 72786 Fairbanks, Alaska 99707

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State of the ArtsPublished monthly by fairbanks arts association July 2009

Vol. 9, Issue 7

Volunteer Spotlight - BarBara pomar

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my summers in Fairbanks. After I married Craig Salsbury and started migrating to Fairbanks, I started exploring Fairbanks. During a First Friday Art Walk, Craig brought me to the Bear Gallery. While that exhibit has been forgotten, the people, the spirit of the Bear Gallery stayed with me. Early the next summer I asked about volunteer positions.

Each year I look forward to being a docent in the Bear Gallery. It allows me to meet all sorts of visitors from all over our wonderful planet and at the same time give back to the community that welcomed me.

I have been amazed at all that Fairbanks Arts Association does for our community and the encouragement to all forms of art from the film festival, youth arts events, to the various exhibits in the Bear Gallery and many other events. Volunteering is my way of not only supporting the arts but the community as well.

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