FAAOct2010_newsletter

State of the Arts

“PROMOTING CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL ARTS IN ALASKA’S INTERIOR”

PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION

I n This Issue:

SEPTEMBER 2010 P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707VOL. 10, ISSUE 9

P2 CHARLIE PARTY FOR THE ARTSP3 GIFT SHOP ARTISTP4 READING SERIESP4 WATERCOLOR CORNERP5 GALLERY EXHIBIT

ANNOUNCEMENTS P 6-7 ARTS DOWN THE ROAD P8

THANKS! P9IN A NICK P10

VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT P10

Fairbanks arts association • August 2010

2

On Oct. 18, 2010, Fairbanks Arts Association will present a preview showcase performance of The Winter Bear by former Alaska Writer Laureate Anne Hanley. The performance will take place during the annual Youth & Elders Conference, which is appropriate since it is a show is about a youth and an elder.

In the play, troubled Athabascan teenager Duane “Shadow” David is plotting to commit suicide when he’s sentenced to cut wood for elder Sidney Huntington. Produced by Cyrano’s Theatre Company and directed by Jayne Wenger, The Winter Bear explores the causes of suicide through the prism of Athabascan culture.

Sidney Huntington, 95, says, “I think this play will help people, especially young Alaska Native males, by showing them they’ve got to look out for themselves and make their own way, but at the same time respect their elders

and their culture.” The Huntington family is lending a wolf parka made by Sidney which will be worn by the actor portraying Sidney Huntington in the play.

The cast features Irene Bedard as Sidney’ s granddaughter; Andrew Demientieff as Duane; Moses Wassilie as Sidney Huntington and Brian Wescott as Victor. Set design is by Sheila Wyne and digital video design by Martha Jane Bradford.

The Oct. 18 showcase Fairbanks production will be held at the Alaska Centennial Center for the Performing Arts Theater at Pioneer Park at 7:00 p.m. General Admission tickets ($12.) are available at the following locations: ChARTreuse, McCafferty’s, Bear Gallery, If Only, Gullivers; by calling 456-6485, EXT 226; Online at fairbanksarts.org or at the Pioneer Park Theater Box Office one hour prior to show time. Recommended for audiences 14 and above.

August 2010 • Fairbanks arts association 3

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

Members:Joan Stack Shane Hurd Darleen Masiak Calaya Williams Carol WilburDawn 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] Chapa, Bookkeeper/Office Manager, ex 223 [email protected] Teague, Tech Assistant, ex 227 [email protected]

PAID ADVERTISEMENT

I love the outdoors and I like to spend time in the wilderness to escape the noise and confusion of everyday life. Reconnecting with nature helps me to restore my positive energy and exploring nature through my paintings is an important ritual in my life. Seasonal employment with the Alaska Railroad brought me to Alaska in 1995. During the winter layoff time I decided to go back to college where I studied art at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2001 I graduated with a BFA in Painting with a “railroad theme” thesis exhibition which was a befitting tribute to the job that got me through college and had become a great part of my life. A few years later I met my future husband who lives in Arizona where I now spend my winters. With a home in both Alaska and Arizona I divide my time, energy and attention between the landscapes of these two worlds which is well reflected through my artwork. I enjoy exploring and experiencing the wilderness and its many inspiring offerings which include the mountains, glaciers, boreal forests and various wildlife in Alaska as well as the cactus, canyons and desert imagery of the southwest. With my ever evolving style and approach to painting, I have found new ways to capture, render and express various aspects of these landscapes. Although the desert landscape offers amazing and inspiring imagery that has worked its way into my repertoire of paintings, the northern region remains my main source of inspiration.


4

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

.:: Reading Series ‘10

Children’s Literary Reading & Book Signing: Debbie MillerOctober 23, 2pm @ the Bear Gallery • FREE

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

Survival at 40 Below (Walker, 2010) is Debbie’s latest children’s book. Set in Gates of the Arctic National Park,

this book describes some of the amazing winter adaptations of arctic animals. Debbie was inspired to write this book after hiking 75 miles through Gates of the Arctic on a 2004 summer trip with fellow Fairbanks writers Carolyn Kremers and Ann Hanley. Their trip was sponsored by the National Park Service artist-in-residency program.

Debbie is also the author of many award-winning nature books for children, illustrated by wildlife artists Jon and Daniel Van Zyle. Her books have been recognized as Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association. Her book, Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights recently received the 2003 John Burroughs Nature book for Young Readers Award.

Debbie Miller

Literary Reading: FSAF Creative Writing ClassOctober 2, 7pm @ the Bear Gallery • FREE

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

FSAF Creative Writing Class

Featuring Authors:Karen Kohout, Don Gray, Sue Ann Bowling, Rob Childers, Rebecca Morse, Peggy Shumaker, Mare Fenno, Mike Welsh, Rhonda Harvey and Charlotte Titus


Bella makes extraordinary objects-objects that rivet your attention by their physical appearance; the weight, mass, volume, material, posture, balance, and motion immediately access a bodily response. Then your mind, your sense of poetry, human imagination, and memory tune in and hold you there. Bella’s works are intended to keep and enlarge their meaning over time; their layered imageries shift and evolve with the viewer’s own moods and experiences.

The materials for her sculptures are chosen not only for structural reasons but also for the references they embody.

Although the objects are beautiful, they contain an element of threat and of irony. They are what the critic Harold Rosenberg aptly called “anxious objects.”

They are made in anxious times.

Exhibit Dates: October 1-30First Friday Reception: Friday, October 1, 5-7pm

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

OCTOBER G A L L E R Y E X H I B I T ::25th Annual 64th Parallel::

Juror- Bella Feldman


6

Winter BearOctober 18th, 7pmTickets $12Pioneer Park TheaterCall 156-6485 ext. 226 for more information

New Bear Gallery Hours

September -AprilTuesday-Saturday,

Noon to 6pmCall 456-6485, ext 223 for more information

To submit calendar

information,

e-mail melissa@

fairbanksarts.org

or call 456-6485

ext.226

Governor’s Awards for the

Arts and Humanities

October 21, 6pm

Princess Lodge

Call 456-6485 ext.226

PAID ADVERTISEMENT

Arctic Chamber Orchestra with Olivier FluchaireSunday, October 3, 2010, 4 p.m.Music Director Eduard Zilberkant leads the ACO in works by Mendelssohn, Resp igh i and Debussy. Gues t soloist Olivier Fluchaire performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. Also included on the program are Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Respighi’s Gli Uccelli (The Birds) and Debussy’s Petite Suite arranged for orchestra by Henri Busser. A free pre-concert lecture will be delivered on stage by Maestro Zilberkant

at 3:00 p.m.

Tickets: $10-$30 .


Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra

with Jura Margulis

Sunday, October 3, 2010, 4 p.m.

Music Director Eduard Zilberkant

leads the FSO in an all Tchaikovsky

concert. Guest soloist Jura Margulis

performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op.

23. Also included on the program

are the composer’s Polonaise from

his opera Eugene Onegin and the

Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”. A free

pre-concert lecture will be delivered

on stage by Maestro Zilberkant at

3:00 p.m.

Tickets: $10-$30

Fairbanks Youth Symphony at Pioneer Park

Saturday, October 16, 2010, 12:00

The Fairbanks Youth Symphony kicks off the 23rd Intenational

Friendship Day activities in Fairbanks with a performance

of Jean Sibelius’ tone poem

Finlandia.

Free

Show in a Day 2010 “The Frankensteins”

Held during Parent Teacher conferences.

October 29, 2010 ages 8 and up through high school

Camp is $30.00 Registration starts at 9:00am

Performance is at 7:00pm cost $8.00 adult, $6.00

Child, plus 3 cans of foodBring lunch, water bottle.

Pizza for dinner is provided

At Dance Theatre Fairbanks at 656 7th Ave.

Call 452-1113 for details.

FAIRBANKS LIGHT OPERA THEATER PRESENTS “ INTO THE WOODS “

OCTOBER 8,9,10 AND 15,16,17 VISIT WWW.FLOT.ORG FOR

TICKETS, SHOWTIMES, LOCATION AND TO

PURCHASE SEASON TICKETS.

October 20th, 2010 is the regular meeting

of the Fairbanks Watercolor Society, held

in the Blue Room of the Centennial Bldg. at

Pioneer Park. The social hour is at 6:30pm.

Meeting begins at 7pm. Guest speaker is

John Poirrier, speaking on ‘The Golden

Mean’. Questions? Call 389-2114, 458-

7925, or 456-3329. Public is welcome.


8 PAID ADVERTISEMENT

Gift Shop Artist of the MonthStephanie Rudig

My first memory is making something. I learned to sew, cut, paint, draw, craft, at an early age. I was encouraged by family and friends to continue, so long as it was just a hobby.

I became a teacher. I taught in the Fairbanks school district for the last 25 years. My students were “gifted and talented” interested in all manner of things scientific, mathematical, historical, and political. I didn’t get to teach them to make art, but always included the requirement of it in their projects, in case they also liked to make things. I loved the fact that in teaching, I got to make things for my classroom, for the students’ learning, and for other teachers.

My favorite medium is cloth. I make quilts, art and bed, clothing, cloth bowls and trivets, little animals and little birds. I also knit, embroider, needlepoint, felt as well as linoleum block print fabrics. I have also done glasswork in most forms, beading and silversmithing, mosaic, and ceramics. There are other art forms I intend to learn, like welding, and screen printing.


SEPTEMBER Committee Meetings:

Literary Arts October 18th at 5:30 p.m.

Cinema CommitteeOctober 25th at 5:30 p.m.

Visual Arts October 20th at 5:30 p.m.

Community Arts October 27th at Noon

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. 222.

Thank you to our volunteers!

Thank you to everyone who helped with Charlie’s pARTy!

McCafferty’s ChARTreuseSherry Faught Rebecca Burns

Lorraine Peterson Marcella Hill

Vi Robinson

Barbara Clark

Nancy McHugh

Margret Van Flein

Lee Harris

Mary Lou Jorissen

Shirley Odsather

Gayle Miller

Glory Kuleskey

Kathy Dubbs

Peggy Birkenbuel

Kathy Richardson

Barbara Pomar

Toka Smith

Shirley Phelps

Georgene Nielson

Laura Fenton

Karen Janssen

Phyllis Movius

Kim Rowley

Stephanie Rudig

Karin Franzen

A very special “Thank You!” to the artists that

donated to Charlie’s pARTY for the Arts!

Sherry Faught Maria Schmidt Karin Franzen

Kathy Dubbs Junko Yanagida Laura Fenton

Shirley Phelps Nancy McHugh Ann Urquhart

Betsy Greslin Penny Dean Tammy Phillips

Bev Byington Barb Carlin Ann McBeth

Sherry Faught Jim & Kathy Richardson

Hilda Melchior Gayle Murray Hazen

Myrna Colp Dan Kennedy

PAID ADVERTISEMENT

Donations Needed:uGeneral Office Supplies

uDigital CamerauReception Supplies

uFlat Screen Computer Monitor

uComputer w/ Windows

TH

AN

K Y

OU

!

VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT - DOREEN FISH

“That guy, Jen, he’s kind of funny looking ain’t he, except when he smiles. Must have been in a fire or something.”“I hadn’t noticed. Wished he brought some supplies with him.” John grumbled.All-in-all there were fifteen people that had waited out the hurricane in what turned out to be a truck stop diner, six men, five women (wives

of five of the men) and five children. The electricity and phone service were still down due to the hurricane. There was a generator but it ran on gas so it was used sparingly.After several hours of work it began to get dusk and the workers began making their way to the diner. A make-shift outdoor kitchen had been set up by Marty and John and a fire was blazing and a cast iron pot full

of stew was simmering over the flames. Each person was given about a quart of water to wash up in and soon everyone was settled down for dinner. Jen sat down on the ground his back against the diner wall with his portion. After a bit, Marty and Phil came over a sat down nearby.“Looks like water is your most urgent need. Potable water.” Jen commented as he ate.

In a NickFairbanks 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 9

I have been a docent with Fairbanks Arts Association for 4 years now. From the start I knew I was going to love it. The staff is awesome, the volunteers are a great group of people and the monthly shows are always wonderful. I enjoy meeting the artists and have met visitors from all over the world. I use my volunteer time as an opportunity to expose my children to the exciting world of art. They love coming with me and have done some volunteer work as well. As a family we have run the spin arts booth for Art EXPO and have been thrilled to be a part of the Very Special Arts festival. I value my time here and I am proud to dedicate my time to FAA.

FAAOct2010_newsletter

Documents

Transcript of FAAOct2010_newsletter