Note from the Director Being connected to our inner artists and each other makes this festival so unique. The Festival Fever that drives us — to take on yet another workshop or performance or outreach to those underserved in our fabulous state, to take another newcomer under our wing and show them around, to stay up a little later sharing or creating for tomorrow’s class, to get up a bit earlier to collaborate with a new friend or an artist of a different discipline, or to walk in the woods hearing the birds’ contrapuntal Prelude, now seeing the essence of fireweed color, feeling the moisture of the trees breath and dance of the wind, inhaling a forest scent reminiscent of Spanish cooking spice. Connect with your inner artist, connect with nature, connect with something new and share the energy through your art. The arts have healing power. This year has economic challenges, I hear next year will have more. Your belief in FSAF, your generosity with your time, homes, cars, food, airline mileage, venues and dollars make it possible for FSAF to continue even without the usual funding. You are the heartbeat of festival that makes the healing fever contagious. Thank you for being you and sharing your gifts. NOW… Go Connect. Go Awaken. Go Be. Express it with your art! Terese Kaptur, Director
About the Cover Artist Sandra Westcott
Sandra is a Certified Zentangle Teacher. She teaches basic and advanced Zentangle workshops in Alaska and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in group shows and solo shows in Fairbanks and published in The Beauty of Zentangle, Zentangle 5, and Paper and Ink Arts blog. She is fond of telling her students “If it doesn’t move, it can be tangled.”
FSAF Offices Main Office (10am–4pm) Mailing Address 600 University Ave. Suite 8 PO Box 82510 Fairbanks, AK 99708 Summer Office (10am–4pm) (+1 hour before shows start) info@fsaf.org Davis Concert Hall Box Office 907-474-8869 Cover art: Creativity Unfurling / À la Square by Sandra Westcott Program Printing by Northern Printing