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State of the Arts

“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

aPril 2010 P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707Vol. 10, Issue 4

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p4 rEaDINg SErIES

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UpComINg EvENTS p8-9

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THaNkS! p11

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Saturday, April 242pmChatanika Gold Dredge • 29 mile Steese Highway

13th Annual Dredge Poetry Festival

Fairbanks arts association • April 20102

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

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] Rowley, Special Projects, ex 222 [email protected] Schwartz, Program Coordinator, ex 227 [email protected] Schmidt, Bookkeeper/Office Manager, ex 223 [email protected]

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13th Annual Dredge Poetry Festival Annual Dredge Poetry FestivalApril 24th, 2pmAt the Chatanika Dredge, 29 Mile Steese Highway

For more information call Fairbanks Arts Association: 456-6485 ext. 227, [email protected] or visit our website at www.fairbanksarts.org

This years Dredge Poetry Festival is Dedicated to Marjorie Cole, one of the founders of this festival.

People are invited to read from Marjorie Cole’s work, bring their favorite poems to share, or to read their own original work.

Bring poetry, a sack lunch, thermos or water bottle, blanket, cushion or rug for comfortable seating and WARM clothes! This is an outdoor event, rain or shine!

Sponsored by

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CAlling All volunteerS!

Fairbanks Arts Association offers you the perfect opportunity to integrate service and love of the arts into volunteerism!

The Fairbanks Film FestivalMarch 27- assisting with set up and take down, ushering and other duties

VSA, Very Special Arts FestivalApril 12 - we need help with Set Up and decoratingApril 13 - assisting with art project stations Other volunteer options include being a docent in the Bear Gallery, distributing fliers, general office tasks and assisting with various special events.

You can help! Please call 456-6485 ext. 226 if you would like to volunteer.

Fairbanks Arts Association is pleased to announce the return of Charlie’s Old Fashioned Box Social. This fun and unique fundraiser will revisit a custom of days gone by.

Since the beginnings of this country, a Box Social was a great way to raise money for a worthy 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.

While we won’t be auctioning off the company of the box-maker, Charlie’s Old Fashioned Box 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.

Join in the fun – volunteer to decorate and donate a box or a basket with dinner for two for the auction. Ask your friends and neighbors to join you in enjoying

a relaxed evening at an old fashioned social.

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 for this enjoyable evening fundraiser are $15 and include a non-alcoholic drink and dessert.

Be sure to call 456-6485 for more info!

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

Fairbanks Arts Association is currently working on a project to document public art around Fairbanks and we need your help! We are looking for folks to help with the

documentation of the art (i.e. photos, GPS, description) but also find the art that is already

out there. Do you have public art in your neighborhood? at your workplace? Are you

willing to take some photos and descriptions? Please let us know!

Call 456-6485 ext.226 or email [email protected]

if you can help!

Project Volunteers Needed

May 20, 6:30 p.m.


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.:: Reading Series ‘10

English Graduate OrganizationApril 3 and April 10, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery • FREE

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

You are invited to the annual english graduate organization (ego)

reading Featuring:

Doug Cost: PoetryMelina Draper: PoetryKevin Eib: NonfictionAmy Hartley: Poetry

Ryan Henderson: FictionKate Hove: Fiction

Ann Johnson: NonfictionCarol Kaynor: Nonfiction

Kyle Mellen: FictionTom Moran: Drama

Jessica Ste Croix: FictionStuart Ste Croix

Brooke Sheridan: PoetryLance Twitchell


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

Mary Ann FortuneArt is Raven through My Heart!

I am an artist in Fairbanks, Alaska and it is with great enthusiasm I share my love of nature with you through my artwork.

I introduce my Raven sculptures to you with both pride and excitement, each one with a unique personality. They are created on an armature of paper mache, wood and metal. Their final layer of texture is done using an acrylic gel. It is in the final stages of the sculpture that the personality of the Raven is complete and it is named. My creative spirit soars with the welcome these Ravens have received throughout the community. Commissioned orders are not only welcomed, but encouraged!

The inception of my whimsical feathered artwork began in 1994, creating 3”x 4” “Birch Eggs”. The interior of each is lined with two different types of moss. Arranged on top of the moss lining is a myriad of woodland material. Bits and pieces of shelf mushroom, spruce cones, grass seed, low bush cranberry leaves, flowers and different types of moss and lichens. Perched on the foreground in each is a little bird I have feathered with layers of acrylic paint for visual authenticity. There are two variations of the Birch Egg shells. The ones built to be hung do so by a gold wire loop. Those built to stand do so with tree roots used as their legs. I proudly own a copyright to the Birch Eggs. I have variations of my woodland material artwork of which the subjects on all pieces remain my hand painted birds.

Application deadline: Saturday, May 1 at 5 PMThe 2010 Artisan Expo & Sale – Friday, November 19 and Saturday, November 20 – marks the beginning of the holiday season at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.Approximately 25 artists from Alaska and the circumpolar North will be invited to sell their work in the museum’s lobby and adjoining spaces.

Key Dates: May 1: Deadline for applications June 1: Artists notified of selection June 15: Artists confirm participation; deposit due October 1: Full payment due November 19-20: Event dates

More information: [email protected].

2010 Artisan Expo & Sale • Call for Entries

“Mandala” by Heather krawiec, one of the artists in the UA Museum of the North’s first Artisan Expo & Sale.


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Alaska Dance Theatre (ADT), founded in 1981, mission is to promote dance through performance, professional education and advocacy in Alaska and to provide a place within the dance community for local and visiting artists to expand their creative talent while nurturing discipline, confidence, fitness and the experience of movement. Believing that dance is for everyone, Alaska Dance Theatre strives to keep its programs affordable to a wide range of the population.

Alaska Dance Theatre produces collaborative work by providing dancers and choreography for numerous artistic projects with other arts organizations in Anchorage, as well as self producing concerts and presenting contemporary dance companies in our Eagle Street Studio’s Alice Bassler Sullivan Theatre.

Alaska Dance Theatre is proud to have been the recipient of the 2005 Governor’s Award for Outstanding Arts Organization.


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

Exhibit Dates: April 2-May 1Opening Reception: Friday, April 2, 5-7pm

Juror’s Lecture: Monday, March 29, 7pmGallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday, Noon-6pm, Bear GalleryAll events and exhibits are held in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park

Interior Artisans XXV :: Juror Tony Crocetto

Juror :: Tony CrocettoOriginally from Philadelphia, Tony Crocetto

was active in the Philadelphia art scene between 1980 and 1991, where he exhibited in numerous juried shows and won several awards. He now resides in Talkeetna, Alaska, where he has lived for the last 15 years. Tony is known for his intimate, impressionistic plein air paintings of the local landscape as well as free form expressionistic mixed-media abstracts that find their inspiration in the subconscious. His works, whether landscape or abstract, are informed by confident brushwork and a keen sense of color and composition.

Tony has exhibited in Talkeetna, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Homer and Denali Park, where he was Artist-in-Residence for the Denali Foundation in 1994. More recently, his work was selected for exhibit at Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR; the traveling Survey of Alaskan Abstract Art Invitational 2009 and is currently exhibiting work in “Confluence/Influence”, an Invitational at the MTS Gallery in Anchorage. In 2004 he was invited to exhibit in the Netherlands as part of the Holland/Alaska Cultural Exchange. His work is in permanent collections at Su-Valley High School, Philadelphia Sketch Club and many private collections from Europe to Alaska.

Originally from Philadelphia, Tony Crocetto was active in the Philadelphia art scene between 1980 and 1991, where he exhibited in numerous juried shows and won several awards. He now resides in Talkeetna, Alaska, where he has lived

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

Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra preSentS:Beat Beethoven 5K Race Fundraiser April 10 at 11 AM at the UAF Patty CenterThe Alaska Trio in Concert April 11 at 4 PM, Davis Concert Hall

Concerto Competition Winners Concert April 25 at 4 PM, Davis Concert HallFeaturing soloists Charlie McNeill - Violin, Kendra Frey – Violin, Sasha Bult-Ito – Piano, Eva Tillitt – Violin, Jamina Gerl – Piano accompanied by Eduard Zilberkant and the Fairbanks Symphony OrchestraPlease call the Symphony Office: 474-5733 or visit www.FairbanksSymphony.org

Opera Fairbanks

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directed by eduard Zilberkant

April 17, 7pmEagle’s Lodge on 1st Ave.

This production is a FUND RAISER for Breadline

(Stone Soup Cafe), the $50 ticket includes Pizza and Wine.www.OperaFairbanks.org

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April 24, 2pm and 8pm

April 25, 2pm

Call 451-8800 for tickets.

Fairbanks Watercolor Society

Demonstration May 14 • 6-9 p.m.

Copper Room, Princess Hotel

Call 389-2114


Sculptor Lacie Stiewingpresents a solo exhibition

FabulaskanaApril 19-30

Opening reception:April 22, 5-7pm UAF Art Gallery

AlAsKA ARTisTs:

Are you familiar with the

Call for Entry online

application system?

Learn more in the

teleconference,

“Technical Tips for Applying

Through CAFÉ”

RSVP to andrea.noble@

alaska.gov or 907-269-6605

for March 30 4-5:30 or

April 13 4-5:30

UAF’s Math in a Cultural ContextFirst Friday • Friday, April 2

UAF Bowers’ Building2175 University Ave, South, Suite 101

5-8 p.m. • 474-6996

Exhibit of books and materials, as well as a show featuring the artwork of Putt Clark.

Fairbanks Concert Association preSentS: Sharon Isbin & Mark O’Connor

in concert April 9 at 8pm, Hering Auditorium.

An Evening with Ira Glass April 26 at 8pm, Hering Auditorium.

Tickets available at Grassroots Guitar, online at alaskatix.cm or by calling 490-2858.

More info at fairbanksconcert.org

Theater UAF presents

VinegAR Toma play with song by Caryl Churchill

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

Tickets: $7-$14 at the Wood Center or Theatre UAF’s Box Office:

474-7751, www.uaf.edu/theatre/season

For more information contact Carol Hoefler, UAF Art

Department Administrative Assistant at 907.474.7530 or

[email protected]


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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

Dawn CrassDawn Crass has lived in ten of the 50 states in the U.S. and traveled

extensively throughout the 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 Bear Gallery and the New Horizons Gallery. The University of Alaska also holds one of her pieces in its permanent collection. Dawn is a member of Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks Watercolor Society and Anchorage Watercolor Society.

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 .


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april Committee Meetings:

Literary Arts April 19 at 5:30 p.m.

Cinema CommitteeApril 20 at 5:30 p.m.

Visual Arts April 21 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 artEXpO 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

Tundra CaravanFNa potlatch Dancers

Dance Theater FairbanksBoy Scout Troop 47

pavva inupiaq Dancerspioneer park pickers

Young philippino DancersYoung Native Fiddlers

Ed Venturelouise Kowalski

The Alaska State Council on the Arts (ASCA) Percent for Art

Program announces a Call for Artists for the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game,

Division of Sport Fish, Anchorage Sport Fish Hatchery - Anchorage,

Alaska Total Budget for Art: $700,000

USD Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 22, 2010

This Public Art RFQ for interior and exterior artwork is open to all statewide and national artists and teams of artists. To view the RFQ

and apply, Artists must register through www.callforentry.org

Thank You artEXpO Volunteers!

lorraine peterson

Darleen Masiak

rebecca Burns

Carol Wilbur

Shane Hurd

Myrna Colp

Doreen Fish + Family

Karin Franzenliz Bent

Jade Mclain

Marcella Hill

peggy Birkenbuel

John Kohler, Jr.

Ginny Schafer

Martin Miller

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“Hurricane Cindy has now dissipated into several local storms and a great deal of rain….” The being that came riding in on the back of gale force storm winds was making his way through the torrential downpours. He pulled his hat down low over his brow after neglecting to put it on until the water was streaming down his face. He smiled, he loved the rain in his face,

but it would look more natural for this place if he wore the hat. Now, if everything went as planned, well to a reasonable degree anyway, this world would change significantly. The big question would be how well the inhabitants would adjust to the changes. The changes could become permanent if the majority had a certain mindset. That was the biggest variable in his…

their….calculations: human thought. In a short period of time he would have sown all the seeds of change that he carried with him. With the speed of the winds around him and the torrential rains the future was set in motion. That made him smile and when he smiled he looked so human. “Now”, he thought, “only time will tell...”

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 4

When asked to be the volunteer of the month, I hesitated as I often do when asked to do something just out of my comfort zone; then I just said yes, and thank you. Since then, I’ve taken some time to consider why I choose to volunteer. I believe that service work is important in our lives, it gives me hope for our future. So even when the task is a stretch (like making calls at fund raising time!) I am grateful to have the opportunity to provide service to the community, by giving a few hours to the Arts Association which directly and indirectly makes such positive contributions to the qualify of life in Fairbanks. To work and play with those I meet at FAA events inspires me to be more creative in my life. Thanks for all you do!

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