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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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July 2010 P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707Vol. 10, Issue 7

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Dinners in the Homes

Fairbanks arts association • July 20102

Dinners in the Homes started nearly ten years ago as a fundraising project for Fairbanks Arts Association. The program was created to integrate travelers with the local community by providing a unique and authentic Alaskan p e o p l e - t o - p e o p l e experience. In 2009 the tour company that featured this exceptional option for travelers canceled their request. However, FAA is pleased to announce that we will begin the program again this year. With only one date in August for 42 guests, we are off to a small start with a new tour company-John Hall’s of Alaska- but are very hopeful that we will be able to continue to expand the program for many summers to come.

The program is simple; out of town visitors are picked up at their hotel by their host’s and taken to the hosts home for dinner. In exchange, the Fairbanks Arts Association receives $35.00 per person. The funds that are raised benefit the Fairbanks Arts Community and help to support the Fairbanks

Arts Association programs. For many visitors, this event is the highlight of their

Alaskan experience and offers a genuine glimpse of Fairbanks. Hosts and visitors alike have responded with letters telling of the friendships and connections they made.

In years past hundreds of volunteers like you

have helped to make this program a success. Because of our small numbers this year, we won’t be able to utilize all those who have generously offered their help. Instead, Fairbanks Arts Association would like to invite you to participate by contributing $35 or more, the same amount received per person participating in Dinners in the Home. These donations go far to help further the reach of Fairbanks Arts Association.

We hope that if you are not called this summer, you will continue to keep Fairbanks Arts Association in your mind as we move forward and continue to grow this wonderful program.

For many visitors, this event is the highlight of their

Alaskan experience and offers a genuine glimpse of Fairbanks.

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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] Teague, Tech Assistant, ex 227 [email protected]

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Alaska Junior Theater is a private, nonprofit organization that has been bringing the best in professional theater from around the world to Alaska’s young audiences for more than 29 years. Each year, more than 40,000 students attend a variety of live performances, which share the common educational goal of “bringing learning to life.” For many students, AJT’s school-

time presentations are their only exposure to the performing arts. Each show we present has a strong educational theme. Our shows are often able to inspire many students who cannot be reached in a more traditional classroom setting.

Teachers also rely on our study guides to prepare their students for what they will see and to create classroom projects in history, social studies, geography, science and other fields. To augment our performances, we offer teacher and student performing arts workshops and master classes whenever they are available. For more information, please visit http://www.akjt.org/

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Literary Reading: Community Writer’s Group June 10, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery • FREE

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

Sue Ann Bowling earned an A.B in Physics from Harvard/Radcliffe in 1963, and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1970. Her dissertation was on ice fog (which isn’t found just anywhere). She stayed at the University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute until she retired in 1998. (Yes,

it was an early retirement, but she was having vision problems at the time and could not drive to work reliably.)

She wrote quite a lot in her years at UAF, not only professional papers, but science popularizations and articles on canine history. On retirement, she added considerably to her websites on Shetland Sheepdogs and genetics, and began playing with fiction. She’s also kept up an interest in gardening (at least in summer!) She’s also into animals, snowflakes and space. (She taught a beginning astronomy class a few times.) In addition to her regular writings she’s written a sequel as well as a trilogy. Maybe she’ll publish them someday, too.

Trilby Cannon i s a F a i r b a n k s au thor. She i s currently writing a book that explores multiple dimensions of a young woman in Ireland. Some of her other works include Trepidation and Tepid Tea, a romance/mystery t h a t e x p l o r e s the impact of the

paranormal realm on house hunting. She’s also written two children’s stories, one her mother asked her to write about a puppy that gets lost in Denali Park and another about her beautiful, enchanting, roley-poley, green-eyed black cat. She is from Alaska, born in Anchorage, and will be reading from her book Banshee.

Jim Durkee is a keen observer of both people and nature. Writing, photography and travel have been his avocations for over twenty years. Although his "day job" is oversight in computers and networks at the University of Alaska, he finds that understanding people is more important than understanding machines even when supporting technology. Most of his recent writings are centered on people and travel. His travels range from hiking trails around Fairbanks, Alaska to visiting over twenty-five other countries. His favorite place to gain writing inspiration is in an airplane several thousand feet above the ground. The Fairbanks Community Writers group has provided invaluable help in their critical reviews of his work and their willingness to the facilitate growth and development of his writing skills.

His future writing plans include developing stories for story tellers, writing short plays and, of course, even more travel with a notebook and camera at the ready.

Joyce Clark was born and raised in Oregon, she came to Alaska 29 years ago from Washington State. She has seven children and many grand and great grandchildren!

She graduated in 1986 from SOU (Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon) with a BA in History and a BA in Education. She worked for Women in Crisis and for ALPA, retiring in 2000.

She has written for most of her life--poetry, short stories, essays and plays. She wrote a short story that was converted into a one act play and presented by the 8x10 group. Another play was performed by The Living Waters Theater Group in Soldotna. She has has been published in several publications, including If We'd Wanted Quiet We Would Have Raised Goldfish and two anthologies published by the writing group.


Exhibit Dates: June 2-August 28First Friday Receptions:

Friday, July 2, 5-7pm • Friday, August 6, 5-7pmBear Gallery Hours: Monday-Sunday, Noon-8pm

All events and exhibits are held in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park

Quilt Alaska is a biennial exhibition of traditional and c o n t e m p o r a r y q u i l t e d i t e m s sponsored by Cabin Fever Qu i l t e r s ’ Guild. The non-juried exhibition is held during the month of July in the even years (2006, 2008 etc.) in the Bear Gallery at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts in Pioneer Park.

T h i s y e a r s ’ exhibit will feature i t e m s m a d e b y Alaskan quilters that range in size from large bed-size quilts, to wall hangings, to quilted clothing to miniature quilts. The show is one way in which Cabin Fever Qu i l t e r s ’ Guild reaches out to the people of Fairbanks and her visitors to share the joy and enthusiasm of quilting, as well as showcase their talent.

Ann McBethcoordinAtor, Quilt AlAskA 2010

July G a l l e r y e x h i b i t Quilt Alaska


Libby CaseyThe View

From Washington

7 p.m. Monday, July 12Schaible Auditorium

FREE

What does Alaska look like from D.C.?Hear Libby Casey, the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Alaska Public Radio Network, talk about all she sees and hears in her dynamic and demanding career. She moved to Washington in 2008 after spending more than a decade in Fairbanks reporting for local public radio station KUAC and teaching radio production at UAF.

Now APRN’s D.C. correspondent, Casey is also a regular guest host of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Her stories have appeared on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “The World,” and the CBC. Since moving to Washington she’s discussed Alaska politics on “The Today Show,” CNN, MSNC and Fox News.

Presented by:

UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and eductaionl institution.

For information call 474-7021 or visit www.uaf.edu/summer.

What are YOU learning this summer? Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning

at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Sculpt it, carve it, paint it

Express yourself in a variety of media with these summer art classes:

Woodworking with mastercarver John Manthei• Greenwood Bowl Carving: July 30-Aug. 1• Scandinavian SHrink Boxes: Aug. 13-15• Make a Post-and-Rung Chair: Aug. 27-Sept. 5

Classes for credit, July 7-Aug. 12:• Painting• Metalsmithing and Jewelry• Ceramics(Offered at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels).

And many more.

Registration is openwww.uaf.edu/summer

uaonline.alaska.edu907-474-7021

866-404-7021 (toll free)

UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and eductaionl institution.

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Lunch BitesTime: 12:15 - 1:15

Place: Great Hall, UAF Campus Dates: Monday through Friday, July 19-July 23

Time: 12:15 - 1:15

Place: Great Hall, UAF Campus Dates: Monday through Friday, July 27-July 31

Lunch Bites Off-SiteTime: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: Pioneer Park Gazebo Date: Wednesday, July 21

Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: Auto Museum, Fountainhead Hotels Date: Wednesday, July 21

Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: Auto Museum Date: Monday , July 26

Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: Pioneer Park Gazebo Date: Wednesday, July 28

Time: 12:00 - 1:00

Place: If Only. . . A Fine Store Date: Wednesday, July 28

Evening ConcertsIn Davis Concert Hall, UAF Campus

(unless otherwise noted)

Celtic Concert — 7/19, 8 pm Motown & Latin — 7/20, 8 pm

Pro Arte Quartet and OBOHIO — 7/21, 8 pm Dance of Alaska & Africa — 7/22, 8 pm

Marriage of Figaro Scenes — 7/23, 8 pm, Salisbury Theatre

Ice Show — 7/24, 5:30 pm, Ice Arena American Roots — 7/24, 8 pm

Chamber Orchestra — 7/26, 8 pm Brazilian Jazz Concert — 7/27, 8 pm World Music & Dance — 7/28, 8 pm Steel, Brass, & Wind — 7/29, 8 pm,

Salisbury Theatre Choirs in Concert — 7/30, 8 pm

Orchestra — 7/31, 8 pm Carol Wincenc Flute Recital – 8/1, 3 pm

Gospel Choir — 8/1, 7:30 pmFair

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What does Alaska look like from D.C.?Hear Libby Casey, the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Alaska Public Radio Network, talk about her dynamic and demanding career. Casey is a regular guest host of C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. Her stories have appeared on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition,” “The World,” and the CBC. Since moving to Washington she’s discussed Alaska politics on “The Today Show,” CNN, MSNC and Fox News.

For information call 474-7021 or visit www.uaf.edu/summer.


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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


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Bring a chair and blanket, bench seating is limited

For more information call 456-6485 ext. 226

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Sundays PioneerParkPickers AmericanRootsMondays FairbanksRedHacklePipeBandDancers TraditionalDanceTuesdays AureliaStringQuartet ClassicalWednesdays HotDenaliHarps HarmonicasThursdays TundraCaravan MiddleEasternDanceFridays KarlMonetti SlackKeyandGuitarVariationsSaturdays MartinMiller Storyteller

Sundays SteveMoore GuitarwithVocalsMondays SusanGrace FolkSinger/SongwriterTuesdays HuntBayer WorldMusicw/Mandolin&PianoWednesdays MikeStackhouse OriginalfolkThursdays LouiseKowalski AccordionFridays JoanStack VocalistSaturdays MartinMiller Storyteller

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At the GAZEBO near Gold Rush Town Entrance at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport WayBring a chair and blanket, bench seating is limited.

For more information call 456-6485, ext.226

Volunteers donate their time, energy and skills in many ways to Fairbanks Arts Association. These volunteers are a crucial part of ensuring FAA’s success. We are currently seeking new volunteers to become a docent in the Bear Gallery and Gift Shop in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts. This position involves working a four-hour shift while greeting gallery visitors, answering questions they may have about Fairbanks or the gallery and working as a cashier when items are purchased. This is a great opportunity for people who enjoy meeting new people, seeing the exhibits, and working as the “face” of Fairbanks Arts Association. If you are interested and available between 12-4pm or 4-8pm any day day of the week please contact Maria at (907) 456-6485 ext 223.

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Sundays PioneerParkPickers AmericanRootsMondays FairbanksRedHacklePipeBandDancers TraditionalDanceTuesdays AureliaStringQuartet ClassicalWednesdays HotDenaliHarps HarmonicasThursdays TundraCaravan MiddleEasternDanceFridays KarlMonetti SlackKeyandGuitarVariationsSaturdays MartinMiller Storyteller

Sundays SteveMoore GuitarwithVocalsMondays SusanGrace FolkSinger/SongwriterTuesdays HuntBayer WorldMusicw/Mandolin&PianoWednesdays MikeStackhouse OriginalfolkThursdays LouiseKowalski AccordionFridays JoanStack VocalistSaturdays MartinMiller Storyteller

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At the GAZEBO near Gold Rush Town Entrance at Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport WayBring a chair and blanket, bench seating is limited.

For more information call 456-6485, ext.226


Museum moviesDynamic Aurora, Winter and You Are HereOffered several times daily

$5 movie pass + admissionInfo: 474-7505 or http://museum.uaf.edu/

northland Youth Choir

is now hearing auditions for the 2010 - 2011 season,

which begins in September. Youth eight to eighteen years are

welcome to sing. By appointment, contact director

Melissa Downes at 388-0543 or [email protected].

For more information visit www.northlandchoir.org.

To submit calendar

information,

e-mail melissa@

fairbanksarts.org

or call 456-6485

ext.226

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University of Alaska Museum of the North special exhibit

Then & Now: The Changing Arctic LandscapeFree with museum admission

Opens May 15Info: 474-7505 or

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CARL PURCELL WORKSHOP

Sept 13-17, 2010Carl will be conducting this 5-day work-

shop Sept 13-17, 2010 in Fairbanks. The

first day will cover drawing as it relates to

painting. During the next four days Carl

will show the participants how he achieves

fresh and vibrant passages in watercolor.

If you want to learn how to make the best

use of negative space and bring life to

your painting, then this workshop is for

you. Carl is the author of “Drawing with

Your Artist Brain”. His website is www.

carlpurcell.com $100.00 will save a

place for you. For further information

contact Sherry Fisler at 907-479-5246 or

907-388-5239 e-mail is tsherry@alaska.

net or Cheryl Berrong at 389-2114, ara-

[email protected]

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

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ArtiSt Every Saturday 10am-2pm June – August

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 any time during the hours stated 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.

HoMeGrowN MArket

is beginning an outdoor market in their parking lot.

Open to anyone who has items made in Alaska.

Interested? Please contact Jeff and Linda

at 907.452. 6238 or visit

www.alaskahomegrown.com

COMING SOON!Portfolio Review 2010

for 2012Deadline:

October 31, 2010

Info: 456-6485 x222

Fairbanks arts association • July 201010 PAID ADVERTISEMENT

2010 MIDNIGHT SUN INTERTRIBAL POWWOW July 9th, 10th & 11th

At the Carlson Center Field 2010 2nd Avenue

Fairbanks, Alaska

Special Guest Drum Host Drum

Silver Cloud Singers Soaring Eagle ~ Fairbanks Alaskan Guest Drums

Morning Star ~ Fairbanks Seven Buffalo ~ Anchorage Sleeping Lady ~ Anchorage

Other guest drums will be listed as invitations are accepted

Gate opens Friday at 4 pm ~ Grand Entry at 5 pm

Gate opens Saturday and Sunday at 11 am ~ Grand Entry at 12 noon

Powwow breaks at 5 pm for Traditional Potlatch on Saturday and re-opens at 7 pm

Powwow closes at 11 pm Friday and Saturday, and 5 pm on Sunday General Admission is $10.00 Elders 62 & over free admission Children 12 & under free with parental supervision Dancers dressed in Regalia free as well! Saturday at 7 pm- Celebration of Alaska Native Culture Evening Traditional Athabascan Cone Game (nilee zhruk) Sunday at 2 pm Ceremonial Release of American Bald Eagle (907) 562-4852 By the Bird Treatment and Learning Center- Anchorage, Alaska www.birdtlc.net

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T h e C r a f T M a r k e T• Local Alaska Artwork •

• High Quality •• Wholesale & Retail •

• Tools • Gifts • Jewelry Supplies •

401 5th AvenueFairbanks, AK 99701

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Mon-Sat 10 to 7pm

juLY Committee Meetings:

Cinema CommitteeJuly 20 at 5:30 p.m.

Visual Arts July 21 at 5:30 p.m.

Literary Arts July 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!

A very special “Thank You!”for helping with the FAA

Box Social!

Vi Robinson

Marcella Hill

Barbara Clark

Nancy McHugh

Margret Van Flein

Lee Harris

Mary Lou Jorissen

Liz Bent

Shirley Odsather

Gayle Miller

Glory Kuleskey

Kathy Dubbs

Colleen Hickman

Angela Rosebeary

Terry Glendinning

Peggy Birkenbuel

Kathy Richardson

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!

Paper Plates • Copy Paper Bar Napkins • TapeSmall Paper Cups

General Office Supplies

Peggy Birkenbuel

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I volunteer for the Fairbanks Arts Association because I enjoy being surrounded by art and the Association needs this help. The Bear Gallery Exhibits change monthly and the Gift Shop has beautiful craft items for sale. The patrons who come to see the exhibits are very nice and interesting Alaskans or tourists. The staff of FAA is very helpful and nice to their volunteers. The cutest question that comes up occasionally is “where are the bears?”

I have volunteered for the Bear Gallery for several years. I am retired from the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District where I worked for several decades. I have lived in Fairbanks since 1963 and my children were all raised in Alaska and are still living here. Three in Fairbanks and one in Anchorage. I have twelve grandchildren and feel so lucky that I could be closer to them than only as a sporadic visitor.

P.O. Box 72786 Fairbanks, Alaska 99707

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