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Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 5th, First Friday with Diane Melms”Honoring tradition and seeking innovation, I strive to push the quilt form into new territory. With a firm foundation in traditional textiles, and an art and design background, I am inspired to use my technical skills and creative drive to invent new ways to express my ideas in cloth. In many ways, I have pushed myself to ‘think outside the block’ with both concept and technique.” Learn more.
2024-04-0827 minArtist Talks @ BunnellMarch 1, First Friday with Kendra HarveyCeramicist Kendra Harvey exhibits at Bunnell Street Arts Center for the month of March. The exhibit opens on Friday, March 1, 2024 from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm. Harvey will also host two plate painting workshops for Bunnell’s 30th Annual Plate Project.
“Storytelling is the foundation of my art. Throughout time and across cultures, mythologies have been formed out of our everyday lives. These shared narratives illuminate human nature, provide comfort, and foster connection. Reinforcing this connection is the core of my work. I want to capture the feeling of hearing a familiar tale once agai...2024-03-0409 minArtist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 2, 2024 First Friday with Megan DeCino"
I make two kinds of art: for myself, and for other people.
The art I make for myself — paintings and mixed media pieces — come from a place of uneasiness and isolation. I dwell on worst case scenarios: violent breakups, car crashes, bloody accidents. Sometimes the lonely characters I create are silly or absurd in their nightmarish realities. I enjoy straddling the line between comedy and horror.
The art I make for other people — cards and valentines — are my light hearted, whimsical tokens of love. I cut and collage each one with the recipient in mind...2024-02-0516 minArtist Talks @ BunnellDecember 3rd, 2023 First Friday with Carol Lambert“Perseverance is an exhibition of multicolor intaglio etchings and other works on paper by Carol Lambert. Lambert’s images touch on common experiences, including birth, death, trust, fear, safety, threat, and conditions on planet Earth. Both cartooning and classical drawing inform her whimsical style. Her work bridges fantasy and realism as she explores her theme of resilience in the face of peril.” – Carol Lambert
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2023-12-0430 minArtist Talks @ BunnellNovember 3,2023 First Friday Artist Talk with Rafael de la UzArtist Statement: “My photography focuses on telling stories, so my goal is to build a narrative from a group of images, organized in a specific order instead of aiming for visual excellence in one single image. An isolated photograph has a certain aesthetic value, but a set of photos uses the power of visual storytelling to tell a story and stories are powerful tools of communication. That is what I try to achieve as a photographer. This exhibition is about isolation, or my personal vision of my son’s isolation, his strategies to adapt to his new life, his spec...2023-11-0615 minArtist Talks @ BunnellOctober 6th, 2023, First Friday with Lydia Moyer
Bunnell Street Arts Center welcomes multidisciplinary artist, Lydia Moyer from September 23rd – October 22rd as artist in residence. Moyer will exhibit work, share an artist talk, and offer community workshops throughout the month of October at Bunnell Street Arts Center.
Moyer says, “My work is a transpersonal response to a sense of crisis in the world. It casts the individual amidst the collective, wrestling with the overwhelming social, political, and environmental concerns that are the shadow of late capitalism, particularly as it looms in the U.S. I bear witness to these concerns alternately by conflating one with...2023-10-1022 minArtist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 8th, Second Friday - 10 x 10 Member’s Exhibit“Taking Care” exhibit statement: How do artists express care for self, community, other life forms and the land? How do artists picture resilience, innovation, and healing? As first responders, artists lead as healers through their creations. In times of tension, crisis or distress, artists surface truth and create images of energy, vibrancy, and hope. The exhibition, “Taking Care,” aims to foster hope, spark joy, and nurture self and community resilience.
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2023-09-1323 minArtist Talks @ BunnellAugust 4th, First Friday, Lawrence R. ‘Ulaaq’ AhvakanaInuit artist, Lawrence “Ulaaq’’ Ahvakana, shows a variety of sculpture in stone, wood, bronze and glass as well as masks and two-dimensional works on paper.
“My inspiration is our Inuit stories, from everyday Northern Alaska lifestyle of subsistence, ceremonies, and the natural cycles of Arctic living depicted in stone, wood, bronze, glass, others including prints, paintings and drawings.” more
2023-08-0948 minArtist Talks @ BunnellJuly 7th, First Friday, Linda Infante Lyons“In the spirit of inclusivity, I blend the spiritual symbols of Western culture with those of the Alaska Native people, elevating the culture and worldview of my ancestors. I acknowledge the duality of my heritage and invite the viewer to consider Alaska Native beliefs as equal to Western beliefs.
I present images of Alaska Native women, inspired by friends, family and fellow artists as the powerful beings I know them to be. Additionally, the land, animals and plant life take a rightful place as equals in my paintings.”
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2023-07-1010 minArtist Talks @ BunnellJune 2nd, First Friday, Antoinette Walker
For the month of June, Bunnell presents encaustic painter from Kodiak, Antoinette Walker. Exhibit opening will be on June 2nd from 5-7pm, with an artist talk at 6pm. The evening also opens the 6th Annual Community Supported Art (CSA) project and will introduce 2023 CSA artists after Antoinette’s artist talk.
“My creativity and life stories are expressed with coastal marine themes that capture the wild beauty of my home, Alaska. Encaustic is my material of choice; a blend of beeswax, damar crystals and pigment. Often using charts, scraps of paper and found objects that are embedded in t...2023-06-1010 minArtist Talks @ BunnellMay 5th, First Friday, Changing Landscapes
For the month of May, Bunnell presents Changing Landscapes, a group invitational exhibit featuring new work by Deb Lowney, Sharlene Cline and Kristin Link. Exhibit opening will be on May 5th from 5-7pm, artist talks at 6pm.
As human activities increase the rate at which natural processes like glacial retreat, weathering and erosion shape the landscape, what agency do artists offer as witnesses, interpreters and documentarians of disappearing landscapes? How do artists steward how we hold and express feelings about change? How might art help humans find strength, reckon with loss, and face what is revealed...2023-05-0919 minArtist Talks @ BunnellApril 7th, First Friday with Tor Lukasik-Foss“The majority of my creative work over the past two decades has explored the subtle mechanics that inform how people connect to each other, and how people connect to place. In particular, I am fascinated in social anxiety as a disruptive, paradoxical yet also generative energy, one that both separates people as well as leading them to incredibly creative strategies of connection. In 2015, I launched a project entitled “I AM NOT PSYCHIC’—essentially a fortune-teller booth designed specifically for those who have no psychic or mystical power. Informed by my befuddlement in crowded or chaotic public spaces, the booth offered...2023-04-1430 minArtist Talks @ BunnellApril 7th, First Friday with Jenny Irene MillerJenny Irene Miller: “I’m an artist who uses photography. My art practice is grounded in all of this: place, storytelling, Indigeneity, queerness, and familial and community relations. Photography provides a space for me to practice a form of careful observation that runs deep in the Inupiaq culture I come from. My art practice considers photography’s ability to share stories, to recall people and memories, and how it has been used as a weapon in the colonial project.”
2023-04-1031 minArtist Talks @ BunnellMarch 3rd, First Friday with The Amazing David Brame“This is the last installment of the Dusty Funk installation series, exploring performative experience and mixed media to question the status quo, identity, gender and race, and produce both beautiful and grotesque imagery in an Afro-surreal environment. I am looking for new ways to tell stories and engage with audiences with my work. Fresh inspiration abounds. The Quixotic Queericule Quazar uses comics, poetry, prose, and large mixed media paintings to tell a short story discussing identity, addiction, and the feelings associated with giving your dreams to the void.” – David Brame
2023-03-0625 minArtist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 3rd, First Friday with Katie Ione Craney“Glaciers sing. Blueberries listen. Bodies long to/for touch. “for a moment, we exist together, for a moment” is a series of sensory-based works examining communication, systems of care, semiotic beings, grief, and the aesthetics of accessibility within art and non-art spaces. Visitors are invited to participate and engage with the work through multiple entry points as a form of reciprocity. Many pieces are informed by and made in collaboration with artists, writers, musicians, researchers, and wayfarers.” – Katie Ione Craney
2023-02-0818 minArtist Talks @ BunnellNovember 4th First Friday with Hans HallinenBunnell Street Art Center exhibits installation artist Hans Hallinen. Join us for the exhibit opening on November 4th from 5-7pm, artist talk at 6pm.
“Threshold” exhibits a series of objects designed in cooperation with algorithms and constructed with the support of computer-controlled tools by Anchorage-based artist, Hans Hallinen. More.
2022-11-0728 minArtist Talks @ BunnellOctober 7th, First Friday with Theresa WoldstadIndigenous artist Theresa Woldstad exhibits new work as Artist in Residence at Bunnell Street Arts Center for the month of October. Woldstad’s work explores the challenges of navigating legal access to resources an Indigenous artist in Alaska today.
2022-10-1034 minArtist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 2, 2022 First Friday with Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich
“Allaŋŋuq elevates deep ancestral understanding of the power of wild non-human beings and the transformative power of adaptation to one’s environment.
Change is a natural element of the living world and it can occur hourly, daily, seasonally, through lifetimes and millennia. Natural beings adapt to these changes in the environment through transformations. Since time immemorial, my ancestors have studied how the wild beings of the nuna(land) here transform.” – Erin Ggaadimits Ivalu Gingrich
2022-09-0527 minArtist Talks @ BunnellAugust 5th, 2022 First Friday with David Pettibone and Deb Schwartzkopf
“I moved to Alaska in search of wilderness. Painting being an autobiographical medium, these works describe the domesticated wilderness in which I now call home.” – David Pettibone
“As a studio artist my goal is to make fabulous tableware that infuses life with purposeful beauty. As an active community member and instructor I use my unique skill set, as an artist and small business owner, to offer educational opportunities. Through clay, I create pathways to cross-pollinate communities.” – Deb Schwartzkopf
2022-08-1525 minArtist Talks @ BunnellJune 11th, 2022 First Friday Protection: Adaptation and ResistanceIn times of pandemic, climate crisis, and ongoing assaults to human rights, how are Indigenous Alaska artists today strengthening self and community, and guiding the next generation from surviving to thriving? Protection: Adaptation and Resistance centers Indigenous ways of knowing. Working within intergenerational learning groups and as collaborators in vibrant community networks, Alaska’s Indigenous artists are invigorating traditional stories in customary arts and proposing resilient futures through design, tattoo, regalia and graphic arts. Artist projects elevate collaboration, allyship, and community as tools of resistance, adaptation, and cultural affirmation. The exhibition explores three themes: Land and Culture Protectors, Activists for...2022-06-1345 minArtist Talks @ BunnellMay 6th, 2022 First Friday with Amber WebbExhibiting artist, Amber Webb will create new work during her two-week residency from April 20-May 7. Her explorations of pictorial Yup’ik storytelling communicate contemporary stories of resilience, humor, changing climate, motherhood, historic trauma and resistance. “I will focus on a small wood carving or series of carvings based on a series of fat indigenous women. This is a continuation of exploring Yup’ik ways of making and honors the original intent of the series.”
2022-05-1040 minArtist Talks @ BunnellOctober 5th, 2018 First Friday with Keren LowellAnchorage artist, Keren Lowell, exhibits and visits as the Homer Fiber Arts Collective’s Artist-in-Residence at Bunnell, exploring fiber arts construction techniques in a series of workshops for local artists.
Lowell uses discarded items and reinvents them using a range of techniques into three dimensional textile art. Her work explores themes including erosion and translucence. Her work is neither solely painting, sculpture nor installation and yet takes elements of all three to create powerful and emotional art that has a raw beauty, depth and intelligence. Her workshops will explore how to use flexible materials in a sculptural wa...2022-04-2225 minArtist Talks @ Bunnell2019 Community Supported Artist TalkChloe Bechtol: Alaska wildlife pen and ink box top drawing
David Kaufmann: Porcelain mug
Kelsey Hardy-Place: Linoleum lunar calendar
Maygen Lotscher: Ceramic shell tray
Nancy Johnson: hand painted rock
Mandy Bernard: Silk-screen printed tea towel
CSA Members receive multiple works from local artists at a fantastic value and develop relationships with the local artists and art community. The CSA program allows a point of entry for collectors to discover new artists and explore a variety of disciplines while supporting local artists’ careers and a vibrant community.
2022-04-2210 minArtist Talks @ BunnellApril 1st, 2022 First Friday with Nathan HallNathan Hall is a multidisciplinary sound and visual artist creating new work reflecting on his site-specific experience in Homer during his artist residency.
2022-04-0426 minArtist Talks @ BunnellApril 1st 2022 First Friday with Jesse EgnerJesse Egner is a New York-based artist working primarily with photography and video. Often taking the form of playful and absurd portraiture of himself and other individuals, his work explores themes of queerness, disidentification, queer corporeality, and the uncanny.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellMarch 4th, 2022 First Friday w/ Berith Stennabb"The power of meeting physically in the same room has become increasingly important during the pandemic era. I am interested in roads to new communication regardless of language, socio-economic, or geographical affiliation. I do this through everyday movements and through textile materials. My exploratory work with what I call Folding Ritual is a way to communicate wordlessly and intuitively. Folding a piece of clothing together, which may carry a special story, is a way to deepen the understanding of the other and of oneself. Likewise, the Untangling Project is through the chaos and order of the thread a way to...2022-03-0522 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 4th, 2022: First Friday Don Decker"I have been walking the trails, forests and shores of Alaska for 50 years, always in the company of a loyal dog. The sub-arctic environment has been a constant source of information and inspiration. I refer to these elements of nature, but not as illustrations. The images in my art evolve out of the practice of working daily in my studio.
My focus has been not only the expansive Northern landscape, but the patches of ground beneath my feet as well. I work in an abstract expressionist manner in painting, while my drawings are usually tighter and detailed...2022-02-1120 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellDecember 3rd, 2021 First Friday: Kim McNettArtist, naturalist and adventurer Kim McNett will share nature journal pages and original works of art that describe her travels across various regions of Alaskan wilderness.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 1, 2021 First Friday: John Hagen, Kristin Link and Michael WalshAlaska artists explore the intersection of environmental observation and nostalgia in a group show, “Sound of Wind and Grass,” featuring photographs by John Hagen, cyanotype, drawing and collage by Kristin Link and video audio art by Michael Walsh.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 2, 2021 First Friday: Linda Infante LyonsThe intention of my work is to create contemporary Indigenous icon imagery, recover and elevate the beliefs of Alaska Native people as equal to those of the Western world. My paintings of Alaska landscapes and other subjects such as seals and ice represent the connection to the environment of the subjects in these portraits.
During the long introspective period of the pandemic lockdown, my mind wandered to landscapes visited long ago, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands and Chile. Some of my paintings will reflect these places. Having witnessed the pain and suffering of the most vulnerable in 2020, my...2021-08-1731 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 6, 2021 First Friday: Sheila WyneSheila Wyne presents The Strata Series. Strata are layers of rock that tell us stories—sometimes vivid and startling—of geological time. The found and manipulated signs are detritus from our built environment. Signage is a symbol of our species priorities for how to care for and direct ourselves often to the exclusion of other ecosystems.
Wyne is a visual artist based in Anchorage. Her studio work has been shown across the state, the Lower 48 and overseas. Her work is in permanent collections of the Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Homer Museums. She has designed over 20 public artworks.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 4, 2021, First Friday: Antoinette Walker In my work I strive to tell a story through my experiences and imagination. My creativity and life stories are expressed with coastal marine themes that capture the wild beauty of my home, Alaska.
The medium of encaustic is my material of choice; a blend of molten beeswax, damar crystals, and pigment.
The inspirations for these paintings are weathered canneries, set net sites, and fishermen working their gear. My first hand experiences with the dangers and excitement of fishing draw me to the historical Bristol Bay. Here, ghosts of past storms emerge through the fog. F...2021-06-0818 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 23, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Dasha Kelly HamiltonDasha Kelly Hamilton is a writer, performance artist and creative change agent, applying the creative process to facilitate dialogues around human and social wellness. She is the author of two novels, three poetry collections, four spoken word albums, and one collection of personal vignettes. She has taught at colleges, conferences, and classrooms and curated fellowships for emerging leaders. An Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy, Dasha has facilitated community-building initiatives in Botswana, Toronto, Mauritius, and Beirut. Her touring production, Makin’ Cake, uniquely engages communities in a forward dialogue on race, class, and equity. Dasha is a national Rubinger Fe...2021-04-2456 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 9, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Land acknowledgment with Argent Kvasnikoff and Thorey MunroHow can land acknowledgment spark other ways of knowing, being and listening into action? Board members of Bunnell and artists, Argent Kvasnikoff of Ninilchik Village Tribe, and Thorey Munro from Homer, discuss the significance of language, materials, space and time in land acknowledgment.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 2, 2021- First Friday: Emily SchubertDrawing from mythology, folktales, memories, and personal experience she creates narratives and characters that aim to make some sense of our existence by giving form to our collective anxieties and desires. Enthralled by the emotive power and depth of expression achieved through puppetry and storytelling, she believes that within these realms lies a source of real-life magic that is deficient in much of our daily lives.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellMarch 26, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Shared Universe Bookclub discusses cultural appropriationWhat is the value and purpose of writing alternative histories of Alaska? What responsibilities does a person who operates from a distance have to a culture?
Shared Universe Bookclub discusses cultural appropriation. With Nathan Shafer, Richard Perry, Lucas Rowley, Leslie Kimiko Ward, Vivian Faith Prescott, Jaclyn Bergamino & Patrick Lichty. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellMarch 12, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Skövde, Sweden residency exchange with Mandy Bernard and Berith StennabHow are international artists-in-residence managing pandemic, distance and dialogue? Fiber artists Berith Stennab (Skövde, Sweden) and Mandy Bernard (Homer, Alaska) discuss their intercontinental collaboration of shared communication and textiles.
Stennab and Bernard are participants in a residency exchange between Bunnell Street Arts Center and Skövde Museum sponsored by the Alaska Community Foundation’s Irma Scavenius Fund for International Understanding. Curators Tomas Gustafsson and Mette Muhli from Skovde Museum join us for this conversation. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellMarch 5, 2021- First Friday: Sara TabbertSara Tabbert – Signs of Life
"Certainly I am but one of many artists whose lives were completely rearranged by the ongoing pandemic. Of all the things that were supposed to happen in the last 12 months, this exhibit at Bunnell is the only event on my calendar that wasn’t postponed or canceled.
This collection of recent work reflects my continued interest in the less celebrated landscapes of Alaska — what we do in them and what we (as well as what our animal and insect neighbors) leave behind." more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 26, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Nina ElderNina Elder, February 2021 artist in residence at Bunnell Street Arts Center, discusses her fascination with fraying materials, lines, tension, release and mending with artist Billy Joe Miller. Both will share images and discuss their work. Elder has been collecting and drawing frayed rope in Homer. Elder and Miller have made work out of ropes together in Gustavus, Alaska. Miller has made art out of rope waste at the Tides Institute in Maine. But more than the ropes themselves, Elder is fascinated by Miller's acumen with the cycle of life, as an artist and a shepherd for the dying. "As...2021-02-2759 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 19, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Holly Mititquq NordlumArtist Holly Mititquq Nordlum speaks about cultural resistance and revitalization through her present projects including public art, acknowledgment through art, film and traditional tattoos. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 12, 2021- First Friday: Nina Elder (Artist In Residence)With NPN’s support, Nina is developing It Will Not Be The Same, But It Might Be Beautiful. This multimedia project poetically explores how humans are implicated in the Anthropocene and are also tasked with moving towards a more holistic future. Through video installation and large-scale drawing, this investigation of change focuses on objects that have been exhausted by use and transformed by time. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 12, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Bivy, Contemporary Artspace and BookstoreThis conversation features owner/curator Simonetta Mignano of Bivy, Anchorage artspace and bookstore as she speaks with Hollis Mickey, Susan Share and Ben Huff about their art and the mission of this bookstore and home of The School of Nonfunctional Studies. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 5, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: David BrameDuring this residency David developed a mixed media show that further develops Dusty Funk and the lexicon of Afrofuturism. David says, "I maintain an active scholarly engagement. Dusty Funk is a series of mixed media Art Experiences that include 3 phases. Dusty Funk Psychedelic Afro Future Space Opera an evolving set of dynamic illustrations. Dusty Funk and the Wooly Whayl a tragic and surreal comic it follows the narrative path that a standard 5 act opera entails. That includes an overture, aria and three intermissions between the 2nd, 3rd and 4th acts. This makes for a total of 10 'chapters'. Dusty Funk...2021-02-0754 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJanuary 29, 2021-Inspiration and Adaptation: Nancy Lord & Jennifer NortonHow do artists and writers share truthful stories about fictions staged in Alaska? American physician and explorer, Frederick Cook claimed to have discovered the North Pole in 1908. But who was “discovered" and what was suppressed in this story? What are doctrines of discovery and what role do Alaska artists and writers and arts organizations today play in resisting colonialism through the works we create and promote? How might the work of artists today in exposing doctrines of discovery play into rising social justice movement particularly in Alaska? more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJanuary 22, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Shared Universe Book Club returns to discuss Dirigibles of DenaliReimagining the Arctic and Alternative histories of Alaska. Nathan Shafer discusses Dirigibles of Denali, an augmented reality app/interactive print project that reimagines three domed cities that were planned, but never built in Alaska: Seward’s Success, Denali City and Arctic Town. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJanuary 15, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: New Music with Wild Shore: Beringia!What does it mean to create new music with respect for Indigenous cultures, stories and experiences? Found Sound Nation's Christopher Marianetti and Joe Bergen discuss their new project, Beringia, with Wild Shore New Music's Katie Cox and Angie Tanning. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJanuary 8, 2021- Inspiration and Adaptation: Being Future Being with Emily JohnsonEmily Johnson, Yup''ik multi-disciplinary artist raised in Soldotna, now based in NYC, connects with her Alaska audience about her current multidisciplinary project, Being Future Being, and how it has shaped her work in systemic change, Creating New Futures land acknowledgment and social architecture. Link to video: https://youtu.be/_QLs1fGKF4o
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Artist Talks @ BunnellDecember 18, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Christian Freet & Myesha Callahan FreetChristian Freet and Myesha Callahan Freet are conceptual artists and collaborators focused on self, personal and social contexts, and questions surrounding the nature of reality in photography, literature, video, sculpture, and light. They live in Chugiak. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellDecember 11, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Rico Lanáat’ WorlTlingit and Athabascan artist Rico Lanáat’ Worl designed a new postage stamp to be released in 2021 for the United States Postal Service, inspired by a traditional Indigenous tale. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellDecember 4, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Sheila WyneAnchorage artist Sheila Wyne explores “Three Seasons,” an ongoing series that explores art, alchemy and anthropecene. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellNovember 27, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Singing for Strength w/ David EnglesHow can we create stories from the most authentic representation? What does it mean to reimage modern storytelling with Indigenous authority, Elder and youth contributions, and our own cultural competencies?
Singing for Strength: How Indigenous language, stories and songs enrich identity and community this week on Inspiration and Adaptation with David Engles, songmaker and language leader of Lower Tanana Denakenaga’ more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellNovember 20, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Shared Universe Book ClubHow can we create stories from the most authentic representation? What does it mean to reimage modern storytelling with Indigenous authority, Elder and youth contributions, and our own cultural competencies?
Shared Universe is a group of Alaskan artists, writers and knowledge-bearers who seek feedback from readers about their efforts to create, promote and distribute exciting comic book stories/new media/fashion exemplifying the rich regional cultures of Alaska in ways that both honor the heritage and forge new concepts to bridge the past with the future. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellNovember 13, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: David Brame on Afrofuturism and comicsDavid Brame describes himself as proudly Blackity Black, an afrofuturist and scholar. His most recent scholarly creative accomplishments for 2019 and 2020 include Sanford Biggers: CODESWITCH in collaboration with Professor John Jennings, The Bronx Museum and produced by Yale University Press. His scholarly work for young black youth, The Struggle, was produced by Minnesota Press. His forthcoming graphic novel After the Rain, disseminated by ABRAMS/Megascope, adapts Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.” more.
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Karen Stomberg: "I am very conscious of the preciousness of our world and the efforts made by science to protect, preserve and document each piece of it. So, though this work began with drawing the beauty of iconic wildflowers, it deepened as I considered their twin qualities of fragility and resilience."
Elissa Pettibone: "For this exhibition, I have developed a series of colors derived from Alaskan plants within the Kenai Peninsula region to create large scale swatches and a color library depicting the results of over 50 experiments." more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 30, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Chrisine Byl & Sara TabbertChristine Byl is the author of Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods, a book about trail crews, tools, wildness, gender, and labor. Sara Tabbert is a printmaker and mixed media artist from Fairbanks, Alaska. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 23, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Sweden in Pandemic with Skövde Kulturhus Kostmuseet, curators Tomas Gustafsson and Mette Muhli, and artist, Berith StennabbHow is Sweden adapting and interpreting the pandemic in artistic practice? Swedish curators Tomas Gustafsson and Mette Muhli and artist Berith Stennabb share their activities. In the summer of 2019, Gustafsson and Muhli visited Bunnell Street Arts Center to promote a residency for an Alaska artist at Skövde Kulturhus Kostmuseet in Sweden. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 16, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Chilkat Weaver Lily HopeLily Hope was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska to full-time artists. She is Tlingit Indian, of the Raven moiety. Following her matrilineal line, she’s of her grandmother’s clan, the T’akdeintaan, originating from the Snail House in Hoonah, Alaska. She lives in Juneau, Alaska, with her husband, author Ishmael Hope, and five children. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 9, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Fragile Domestic ArtistsTalking with the artists from our October exhibit- Fragile Domestic.
We are driven by questions around the fragility of materials and time-based craft, the fragility of unsustainable perfection, the fragility of memory, history and utility. The resulting instinct sloughs all this to reveal a harder, less breakable core. This, we nurture and feed. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 2, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Nigerian muralists Yomi Awobusuyi and Kelsen NnajiWith support from the Alaska Community Foundation's Irma Scavenius Fund for International Understanding, we look forward to bringing Nigerian muralists Yomi Awobusuyi and Kelsen Nnaji to Homer in 2021. On this podcast we'll meet these artists and their leader, Enzenwa Okora from Streetproject Foundation, in Lagos. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 2, 2020- First Friday w/ Amy Meissner, Hollis Mickey, Keren Lowell and Sonya Kelliher Combs and Keren Lowell of Fragile DomesticWe are driven by questions around the fragility of materials and time-based craft, the fragility of unsustainable perfection, the fragility of memory, history and utility. The resulting instinct sloughs all this to reveal a harder, less breakable core. This, we nurture and feed. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 25, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Shared Universe Book Club with Nathan Shafer, Melissa Shaginoff, Dimi Macheras, and Richard PerryHow can we create stories from the most authentic representation? What does it mean to re-imagine modern storytelling with Indigenous authority, Elder and youth contributions, and our own cultural competencies? Shared Universe is a group of Alaskan artists, writers and knowledge-bearers who seek feedback from readers about their efforts to create, promote and distribute exciting comic book stories/new media/fashion exemplifying the rich regional cultures of Alaska in ways that both honor the heritage and forge new concepts to bridge the past with the future. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 18, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Erin Coughlin Hollowell and Kes Woodward
After earning her MFA from the Rainier Writer’s Workshop Erin Coughlin Hollowell authored three books of poetry. She is a Rasmuson Foundation Fellows and In 2017, she was awarded a second Rasmuson Fellowship to work on her third book. Currently, Hollowell is the executive director of the Storyknife Writers Residency, a residency for women writers being developed outside of Homer, Alaska and she is Director of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference.
Kesler “Kes” Woodward is an Alaska artist, art historian and curator known for his colorful paintings of northern landscapes. After teaching for and then chairing the Art Depa...2020-09-2159 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 4, 2020- First Friday w/ Hal Gage & Rika MouwHal Gage- (black & white photography of glacial silt) Patterns in the flowing mud and silt are the vanishing fingerprint of the glacier. These transitory images are all that is left as the ice disappears and the waters dry up—leaving just a hint of the glacier that once was.
Rika Mouw- (mussel shell assemblages) Through these mussel shell assemblages I reflect on the time I’ve spent on this edge of land where it meets the sea with the ebbs and flows of the tide. more.
2020-09-1844 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 11, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptaton: "Mapping Qacimak" with Bretwood Higman, Sally Ash and Argent KvasnikoffHow can the names of this area be mapped more inclusively? With Bretwood Higman, Sally Ash and Argent Kvasnikoff. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 11, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: "Land Acknowledgment in Action" with Melissa Shaginoff and workshop participantsContinuing our conversations with Indigenous artist, activist and curator Melissa Shaginoff, this week we discuss the sign painting workshop she led last month. Participants share how it feels and what inspires them to visibly honor the legacy of Indigenous stewardship on signs placed around Homer. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 28, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: "R.A.C.E.S. Story Circle" with Skywalker PayneSkywalker Payne’s work embraces her experience as a professional oral storyteller, performance artist, author, poet, nurse, and healer. She is leading a new workshop model called R.A.C.E.S. (Race A Concept Explored in Story Circle). Built upon her storytelling experience, knowledge of Black history and racism, Skywalker found storytelling an effective method to communicate difficult feelings and experiences. The goal is to establish R.A.C.E.S. Circle as a model to enable anyone to rise above limiting racial concepts. This tool can be used in businesses or organizations to explore race in a no...2020-09-011h 03
Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 21, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: "Art in the Anthropocene" with Sheryl Reily and Nina ElderBorn in New Zealand, Sheryl Maree Reily lives in the small mining town of Ester. The gravity of the global situation prompted her to transform her creative practice as a self- taught photographer and healthcare professional into an arts-based advocacy for human and environmental wellbeing. Her work draws upon an expanded field of sculpture, performance, installation, and media technology. Reily has received three Rasmuson Foundation individual artist awards, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and Santa Fe Art Institute Fellowships, and serves on the Alaska State Council for the Arts Visual Arts Committee, and with the Emily Tremaine Foundation's Artists Thrive platform.2020-08-221h 02
Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 14, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: "Art in the Anthropocene" w/ Scott McDonald, Anvil Catlin Williamson, Sheila Wyne and Michael ContiScott McDonald an artist, an art educator, and a lifetime resident of Alaska. He teaches K-6 art for Anchorage School District as well as an active studio practice in both Homer and Anchorage.
Anvil Catlin Williamson was born and raised in Spokane, WA but has been a permanent resident of Fairbanks, Alaska since 2008. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2016 and has been a full-time artist since 2017.
Sheila Wyne is a visual artist based in Anchorage. Her studio work has been shown across the state, the Lower 48...2020-08-181h 01
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 3, 2020- July First Friday Artist Talk w/ Steven GodfreySteven Godfrey is a potter and a Professor of Ceramics at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His current work is less about being tailored for a specific utilitarian function but rather to illustrate a collection of his interests, combined during the making process and meant to speak beyond functionality and tell a story through the symbolism of form and color. The forms he makes emulate the elegance of French automobile bodies made during the 1930s and 40s: Delage, Delahaye, Talbot-Lago, Bugatti, Avions Voison, etc. Other aspects of his work subtly or directly depict his interest in old New England...2020-08-1515 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 3, 2020- July First Friday Artist Talk with David Pettibone“Nature has always been the thread that sews my paintings together. Instead of being a part of nature, we see ourselves as existing in tandem with it: separate but together. This is, of course, an illusion. The complexities of our relationship with nature are infinite and they run the gamut from peaceful to the sublime and from pleasant to the horrifying. My work explores the many levels of our relationship with nature and seeks to convey the visceral emotions that come about when we are reminded of just how connected to our environment we truly are.” David lives in Home...2020-08-1524 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 8, 2020- August First Friday Artist Talk w/Steven Gordon & Anvil Catlin WilliamsonSteven Gordon is an Anchorage artist painting the landscape of south central Alaska for the past 35 years in a painterly realist style. He went to Dartmouth college and then earned this MFA from the university of Iowa in 1984 and headed up to Alaska to start his adventures with the life and land of Alaska. He’s taught at UAA and APU and had done numerous painting workshops, and artist-in-the-school residencies across the state. His work can be seen in many private, public and corporate collections.
Anvil Catlin Williamson was born and raised in Spokane, WA but has be...2020-08-1025 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 7, 2020- Land Acknowledgement Series, Part 5: Acknowledgement in Action w/ with Melissa Shaginoff, Sally Ash & Syverine BentzMelissa Shaginoff (Ahtna, Piaute) discusses an ephemeral land marking project, “Acknowledgement in Action.” Original place names, art, language and science intersect. She was joined by special guests Sally Ash, Sugt’estun language teacher in Nanwalek and Syverine Bentz, the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve’s Education Coordinator. more
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 31, 2020- Land Acknowledgement Series, Part 4: Indigenizing Monuments with Joel Isaak & Ruth MillerJoel Isaak's family is from the village of Ch’aghałnikt (Point Possession) and currently lives in Soldotna. His Dena’ina name, Łiq’a yes, translates to salmon skin which relates to his pursuits of learning fish skin sewing. Joel is an artist, educator and lifelong learner. He uses art to uncover understanding of working in an educational environment where he combines the Western education model with traditional Alaska Native ways of life. Language work inspires Joel’s artistic practice and education methodology. He uses multi-cultural communication as a medium to aid in language revitalization. Art has served as a safeguar...2020-08-011h 01
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 24, 2020- Land Acknowledgement Series, Part 3: Marking Tuggeht, an Indigenous Land-Acknowledgement Initiative with Argent Kvasnikoff and civic partnersA conversation about a community process of education and transparency in decision-making about land acknowledgement, Asia hosts civic leaders and artist, Argent Kvasnikoff for an open dialogue about marking Tuggeht as Indigenous land with Ivan Encelewsk (CEO, Ninilchik Village Tribe) Donna Aderhold (Homer City Council) Marianne Aplin (US Fish and Wildlife, Islands and Ocean Visitors Center) Matt Steffy (Homer Parks Maintenance Coordinator), Julie Engebretsen (Homer Planning Department), Deb Lowney (PARC Committee) and Robert Archibald (PARC Committee), Rika Mouw (Landscape Architect). more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 17, 2020- Land Acknowledgement Series, Part 2: ``Where We Begin: Tuggeght, At the Shore``Features guests Emily Johnson and Amber Webb. This conversation will be centered around learning about land acknowledgement
Amber Webb is an artist & activist from Dillingham, Alaska of Yup’ik and Unangan heritage. She received a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award and a Project Award. Amber explores pictorial Yup’ik storytelling to tell contemporary stories of oppression and resilience.
Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer and a 2015 Guggenheim fellow in choreography, she is based in New York. Raised in Soldotna, Alaska, she is of Yup’ik descent. more.
2020-07-1800 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 11, 2020- Land Recognition Series, Part 1: “We Were Not Discovered. How Should Captain Cook Be Remembered?” July 10, 2020, featured guests Da-Ka-Xeen Mehner and Melissa Shaginoff.Born in Fairbanks, Alaska to a Tlingit/N’ishga Mother and Hippy/American father, Da-ka-xeen Mehner uses the tools of family ancestry and personal history to build his art. his work stems from an examination of a multicultural heritage and social expectations and definitions. In particular his work has focused on the constructs of Native American identity, and an attempt to define the Self outside of these constructs. Mehner has received a number of awards for his work including a 2015 USA Rasmuson fellowship, a 2015 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, and a 2014 Native Arts and Culture Foundation Artist Fellowship.
Me...2020-07-1158 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 3, 2020- Inspiration & Adaptation w/ Kima & Dasha Kelly Hamilton
What does it mean to design Social Justice? July 3, 2020, featured guests Kima and Dasha Kelly Hamilton.
Kima is a facilitator, DJ and social justice engineer. From Pennsylvania to Georgia to Alaska to Wisconsin, he has shaped his engineering skills and artistic talents into a signature work as a convener, counselor and ARTivist. Kima as traveled as an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy in Colombia, India and Mexico. He has led writing workshops and wellness dialogues with school systems, social agencies, and correctional facilities. Kima leads discussion and healing circles for men with the Alma Center...2020-07-041h 06
Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 26, 2020- Inspiration & Adaptation "Dancing Alone," w/ Mariah Maloney, Maura García and Becky KendallFeatured guest dancers: Mariah Maloney, Maura García and Becky Kendall
Originally from Homer, Mariah Maloney is a New York-based dance artist located in Brooklyn and Brockport, New York. Mariah Maloney Dance formed in 2003 and today the company is invited to perform, teach and create new work in New York, throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.
Maura García (non-enrolled Cherokee/ Mattamuskeet) is a dance artist who creates contemporary Indigenous performance to form connections, empower cultural values, explore the rhythms of the natural world. Maura’s artistic creations reflect the power of stor...2020-06-2700 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 20, 2020- Inspiration & Adaptation w/ Nathan Shafer & Melissa ShaginoffFriday, June 19, featured guests Nathan Shafer and Melissa Shaginoff. Nathan Shafer is a new media artist from Alaska specializing in augmented reality and digital humanities. He is one of the founding members of both the Meme-Rider Media Team and Manifest.AR. He was profiled by PBS Digital Studios as part of an online collaboration called The Future in 2014. Shafer’s geobased AR works have been displayed on every continent in multiple venues across the world. He contributed chapters to Augmented Reality Art, Augmented Reality Games II, and Augmented Reality in Education, in 2020. He received a Creative Capital award in 2020 fo...2020-06-211h 08
Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 12, 2020- Inspiration & Adaptation with Kat Moore and Tim EastonFriday, June 12, featured guests Kat Moore and Tim Easton. Kat Moore, multi-instrumentalist and creative force known as The Forest That Never Sleeps, weaves a sonic tapestry with her compositions. Kat lives and teaches music in Anchorage. Tim Easton is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter playing rock and roll, folk and Americana music. He tours extensively and often plays in Alaska. Tim is based in Nashville. more.
2020-06-1756 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 5, 2020- Inspiration & Adaptation with Tamara Wilson & Jimmy RiordanJune 5, 2020, featured guests Tamara Wilson and Jimmy Riordan. Tamara Wilson is a Fairbanks-based artist and creator of The Lemonade Stand, a mobile exhibit space with the mission to grow and connect creative community. Jimmy Riordan is an artist and educator living in Anchorage. He is currently working on the Alaska Bookmobile Project, bringing a 20 year old bookmobile out of retirement and re-imagining its role as a mobile library, community venue and art space in its new home of Anchorage. more.
2020-06-1656 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellMay 28, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ Catie Bursch, Amber Webb & Thorey MunroMay 28, 2020, featured Catie Bursch, Amber Webb and Thorey Munro. These artists have all lived and worked along Bristol Bay for many years.
Catie Bursch intertwines art, science and commercial fishing on a daily basis. She has fished in Bristol Bay for the past 30 years where she and Tom raised their two girls in the summer. She just finished a fellowship with Alaska Salmon Fellows exploring salmon sustainability, equitability and the Alaska Salmon/People system.
Amber Webb is an artist & activist from Dillingham, Alaska of Yup’ik and Unangan heritage. She received a Rasmuson Individual Artist Aw...2020-05-3053 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 30, 2020- Inspiration in Isolationw/ Bruce Farnsworth & Sheila WyneApril 30, 2020, featured visual artists Bruce Farnsworth and Sheila Wyne. Bruce Farnsworth is an Anchorage based writer, artist and community organizer. He founded and directed MTS Gallery in Anchorage and Light Brigade, a multimedia collaboration of artists who stage site specific art interventions in the built and natural environment. He is Co-Lead of the Pan-Arctic 8Boxes Project. Farnsworth was the recipient of the first ever “President’s Award” from the Rasmuson Foundation, an award created by the foundation’s President and CEO to honor his work in neighborhood revitalization through the arts.
Sheila Wyne is a visual artist based in...2020-05-231h 01
Artist Talks @ BunnellMay 21, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation (Homer Youth Speak) w/ Asa Panarelli, Ella Parks & Drew WimmerstedtMay 21, 2020, featured Homer Youth guests: Ella Parks, Drew Wimmerstedt and Asa Panarelli
Asa Panarelli is a locally grown actor and musician. A recent graduate of Homer High, he looks forward to delving deeper into all the art and creativity that Homer has to offer.
Ella Parks is a singer-songwriter who was born and raised in Homer. She currently resides in Austin, Texas where she is making new music and hopes to build a career out of it someday.
Drew Wimmerstedt is a visual artist raised in Homer’s art community. Closing to finishing th...2020-05-221h 00
Artist Talks @ BunnellMay 14, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ Francesca DuBrock & Michael WalshMay 14, 2020, featured Francesca DuBrock and Michael Walsh. Francesca DuBrock is Chief Curator at the Anchorage Museum. She is passionate about creative practice as a method of understanding and questioning the world, often collaborating with artists and community members to develop projects highlighting cultural diversity in the North. Before returning home to Alaska, Francesca worked as an artist, educator, archivist, translator, server and (briefly) in wood conservation in Maine, California, and Mexico.
Michael Walsh is assistant curator/archivist for the Ruben/Benston Film Collection at the Walker Arts Center. A teacher and studio artist, Michael Walsh has worked...2020-05-151h 06
Artist Talks @ BunnellMay 7, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ Amy Meissner & Carla CopeMay 7, 2020, featured Alaska artists Amy Meissner and Carla Cope. Amy Meissner combines traditional handwork, found objects and abandoned textiles to reference the literal, physical and emotional work of women. She has shown internationally with textile work in the permanent collections of the Anchorage Museum, the Contemporary Art Bank of Alaska and the Alaska Humanities Forum as well as various private collections. Carla Cope, from Homer, graduated with a BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2003 and lived and painted in Oregon, Wisconsin and California before moving back to Homer in 2010. Carla “finds fresh inspiration in this beautiful an...2020-05-151h 07
Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 16, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ David Pettibone & Ryan ConarroDavid Pettibone is a figurative painter. He makes paintings of people and places which seek to convey the visceral emotions that arise from our convoluted relationship with the natural world.Ryan Conarro makes story-centered performance and sound works that aim to cultivate relationship and community more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 9, 2020- Inspiration In Isolation w/ Amber Webb & Emily JohnsonAmber Webb is an artist and activist from Dillingham, Alaska of Yup’ik and Unangax̂ heritage. Amber explores pictorial Yup’ik storytelling to tell contemporary stories of oppression and resilience. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is based in New York. Raised in Soldotna, Alaska, she is of Yup’ik descent. more.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellApril 3, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ Annette Bellamy & Molly Lou Freemanmore.
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Artist Talks @ BunnellMarch 26, 2000- Inspiration and Isoloation w/ Argent Kvasnikoff and Eowyn IveyVisual artist Argent Kvasnikoff (Dena'ina/Alutiiq, from the Ninilchik tribe) and Alaska author Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, Alaska) discuss impacts of the virus and strategies for creative productivity. more.
2020-03-2658 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellMarch 6, 2020- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Atz Kilcher & Deland AndersonDeland Anderson- "Rivers are the arteries of Alaska. Some are ancient. Some are brand new. Some are famed waterways. Others are so isolated only wild creatures travel their courses..." Atz Kilcher has been creating root and fiber baskets sourced from the landscape surrounding Homer for almost 35 years. "Each basket is adorned with found objects I have collected over the years..." Read more at www.Bunnellarts.org
2020-03-1205 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellFebruary 7, 2020- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Tamara Wilson Exhibit“I am inspired by domestic spaces, memories, investigations of how things work, daily routines, and industrial materials, but also the need to escape it all and dream. My ideal creative environment is somewhere between an auto shop and a sewing room in a place beyond the reach of cell towers on top of a mountain that is weathered in with cotton candy clouds." Read more at www.Bunnellarts.org
2020-02-1109 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellDecember 6, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Argent Kvasnikoff ExhibitNinilchik native artist Argent Kvasnikoff was born in Homer and studied linguistic anthropology and art history. He works with humanist themes illuminated by his indigenous culture, with most of his work involving his culture’s endangered Dena’ina language through the Qena Sint’isis project.
2019-12-1015 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellOctober 4, 2019- Qaspeq / Kuspuk / Atikluk Exhibit Opening, Artist Talk: Amber Webb, Bobby Itta and Erin GingrichBunnell Street Arts Center presents “Qaspeq / Kuspuk /Atikluk” an invitational exhibit of innovations in traditional Yup’ik wearable art created by Indigenous Alaska, artists October 4 – November 4, 2019.
Featured artists:
Amber Webb
Bobby Itta
Carla Gingrich
Erin Gingrich
Nita Rearden
Darlene Wright
2019-10-1427 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellSeptember 6, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Sonya Kelliher Combs ExhibitAlaska artist Sonya Kelliher Combs exhibits new work at Bunnell Street Arts Center during Alaska World Arts Festival.
2019-09-0920 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellAugust 2, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Colleen Firmin ThomasColleen Firmin Thomas is Gwich’yaa Gwich’in from Fort Yukon, Alaska. She studied printmaking and painting at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She lives with her family in Fairbanks, Alaska. She works with modern sewing techniques and traditional Gwich’in Athabascan materials and methods in her mixed-media paintings.
2019-08-0606 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 5, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Beth Blankenship Exhibit“I am exploring how all earthly things are connected by the smallest of threads and how we humans, willfully or unwittingly, alter those connections. My newest work is a series of vessels created using machine embroidery on water-soluble fiber. My desire is to illuminate the fragility of the natural world as well as its beauty, resilience, and strength.”
2019-08-0612 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJuly 5, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Antoinette Walker Exhibit"My work tells a story; I iconize Alaska and my experiences here, both on land and at sea. I express my creativity and experience through coastal marine themes that capture the wild beauty of my home. I work with an encaustic medium, which is a blend of molten beeswax, damar crystals, and pigment."
2019-08-0606 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 7, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Sarah Beaty Exhibit“I pair simple drawings with ice and sky colored pots; generate repeating, tessellating patterns that have missing pieces or fall apart as they cover a curve; draw clouds with clay. I aim to make work that is special and also disarming – my version of village-Arctic-neo Alaskana”-Sarah Beaty
2019-06-2911 min
Artist Talks @ BunnellJune 7, 2019- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Linda Infant Lyons Exhibit“By combining elements of Christian iconography with Alutiiq tradition, the artist suggests that they are equally important. She is asking us to consider traditional Alutiiq beliefs on the same level as Western beliefs” The Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, Alaska
2019-06-2932 min