February 2010
State of the Arts
P.O. Box 72786, Fairbanks, Alaska 99707
Vol. 10, Issue 2
Published monthly by fairbanks Arts Association
Writing in the Dark 2010 February 13, 9-4pm
p2 Writing in the dark p3 Jewish film festival p4-5 art expo p6 Art down the road p7 reading series p7 gift shop artist p8 gallery exhibit p9 patterns of influence
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8x10 festival p9 calendar p10-11 watercolor corner p12 gift shop author p12 thanks! p13 in a nick p14 volunteer spotlight p14
“Promoting contemporary and traditional arts in Alaska’s Interior”
Writing in the Dark 2010
FLASHES IN THE DARK—THE ART OF FLASH FICTION
Treat your Muse to an all day retreat designed to help you generate new material, gather ideas for future projects, and rejuvenate your writing process. You will be treated to a continental breakfast, and lunch, and a stimulating day of discussion, writing, and camaraderie, all in the beautiful setting of Four Winds Foundation (http://www.alaskafourwinds.org). Bring your creative self, your journal or notebook, books you find inspiring to share, and information on literary opportunities or writing events.
Saturday February 13, 2010 9am - 4pm
8:45 Registration & Breakfast 9:30 Introductions 9:45 David Marusek 11:00 Write Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway once bet Noon Lunch a group of fellow writers that he could write a 1:00 David Marusek complete short story, with beginning, middle, and 1:30 Write end, using just six words. He won the bet. 2:30 Small group breakout/sharing 3:30 Participant reading Flash fiction is the art of the very, very short
David Marusek
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David Marusek is a long-time Fairbanks resident. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Nature, MIT Technology Review, and Asimov’s, and has been translated into nine foreign languages. According to Publisher’s Weekly, “Marusek’s writing is ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny, as he forces readers to stretch their imaginations and sympathies.” Marusek loves writing flash fiction between his novel projects and has published three of them in a national magazine. So, what was Hemingway’s six-word story? Come to this year’s Writing in the Dark and find out!
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story, 1000 words or less. It’s a form custommade for the digital age, great for reading on your phone, as a Tweet, or during Photo by Ronan Nagle a coffee break. For the creative writer, flash fiction offers the chance to sharpen narrative skills in brief but complete bursts of fiction. And the form has become so popular that opportunities abound for publication online, in magazines, and as part of writing contests.
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FLASHES IN THE DARK—THE ART OF FLASH FICTION
Name: ___________________________________________________ Phone:
Address: _________________________________________________ E-mail: $30 for Early Registration. Registration must be postmarked or delivered to Fairbanks Arts Association, Pioneer Park, Monday February 1st to receive this rate. $35 after February 1st or at the door. Method of Payment:
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Fairbanks Arts Association and the Farthest North Jewish Film Festival present
Holes in My Shoes Thursday March 4, 7:00 pm at the Pioneer Park Civic Center Theater
94-year-old New Yorker Jack Beers has broken the age barrier full force. Jack is not like any man his age. Raised in severe poverty in the Lower East Side, he became a ‘strongman’ and was known as “New York City’s Strongest Boy.” He helped build Radio City Music Hall and an invention, made while working on the Manhattan Project, helped shorten WW2. He erected the Empire State Building spire, was a professional dog trainer, and acted in over 200 films. At 94, Jack rides 3 miles every day on a stationary bike, drives, wrestles 30 year-old men, surfs the net, cuts down trees, mows 5 acres of his lawn, and much more. The film ends in a grand finale with Jack singing “When You’re Smiling” on top of the Empire State Building in true Jack Beers style. An inspiring, funny and moving film. A true rags to riches story. 2006, 90 minutes. Documentary. Written and directed by David Wachs.
Suggested Donation Adults $10, Students $5
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ArtEXPO 2010 A Winter Arts Carnival March 6 • 11am-6pm
T.R. Lambert
Suggested donation of 1 can or $2
All cans to benefit the Fairbanks Community Food Bank
Application fee $50 if received by Feb 12 $60 after Feb 12
Fre art prin e t sugges with t donatio ed n!
• Alaskan artists & vendors • Workshops for artists • Live performances • Free art projects for kids • Hourly prize giveaways • Pioneer Park ice rink • FAA affiliate organizations • Food concessions • Up With Art: Annual FNSBSD Student Exhibit • 15th Annual Statewide Poetry Contest Winner Presentation & Reading, 5pm
Contact the Fairbanks Arts Association at (907) 456-6485, ext. 226 or e-mail fairbanksarts@mosquitonet.com
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Fa i rb a n k s Ar t s Ass o c i123982_13678 at i o n 3.25" xthe 4.5" Fairbanks Arts Association was established in 1966 to promote and support arts in the Fairbanks area. The Association is funded by private, corporate, and BW 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. Staff June Rogers, Executive Director , ex 225 june@fairbanksarts.org
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Seth Schwartz, Program Coordinator, ex 227 seth@fairbanksarts.org Board of Directors Lorraine Peterson, President Marcella Hill, Vice President Rebecca Burns, Secretary Myrna Colp, Treasurer
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Members: Joan Stack Shane Hurd Darleen Masiak Calaya Williams Carol Wilbur Daron Crass Martin Miller
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Juneau Arts & Humanities Council The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, incorporated in 1973, is the formal arts agency for Juneau, Alaska. Our mission is to provide cultural opportunities to the community of Juneau and to serve as the umbrella arts organization for the capital city of Alaska. We strive to reflect the diversity of needs and desires of Juneau through our programs and offerings. Our gallery, located on North Franklin Street, is a well-known contemporary art gallery in downtown Juneau. For information about applying to exhibit, visit our website at: www.jahc.org We host two free arts in education programs, award scholarships and grants to Juneau students, adult artists and local arts organizations and celebrate our local talent outdoors during the summer months with our free Concerts in the Park series. We also host events like monthly Arts Roundtable meetings, Poetry Omnibus, the Cabin Fever Arts Festival ‌ and more!
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Fairbanks Arts Association is sponsoring a reading of local writers whose work was selected to appear in a special literary issue of The Northern Review, a multidisciplinary journal of northern studies published by Yukon College in Whitehorse. Local contributors to this issue include Peggy Shumaker, John Morgan, Terry Boren, Carol Kaynor, Jean Anderson, Tom Moran and Cindy Hardy, among others. The event will be dedicated to the memory of Marjorie Cole, who had a story and a poem published in the issue and volunteers are invited to give short readings from her work. Copies of the issue will be available for sale.
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Calaya Williams Calaya Williams was born in Santa Monica, Ca, raised in southeastern Kentucky, returned to California in the 70's and moved to Fairbanks (home!) in the early '90's. In CA she studied and cocreated mural art with Dexter Smith and exhibited various visual art in bay area galleries. Following a spinal injury several years ago, while unable to stand, she learned to peyote stitch and fell in love with beading. Drawing on her painting and sculpting skills, her bead works are inspired by her relationship with nature. Currently her focus is work on a collection of small, bead & wire sculptures. She continues to bead baskets,although smaller ones using larger beads, gratefully using her hands & eyes while she readies herself for a corneal transplant.
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PATTERNS OF INFLUENCE: Elements of Change Ree Nancarrow-Patterns of Influence Juror Ree Nancarrow has been an
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from the University of Minnesota, with a minor in botany. She has worked with a variety of media, but in the early 1990’s she combined a life-long interest in sewing with fine art when she started to produce wall quilts. She has quilts in the permanent collections of the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, the University of AK Fairbanks Museum, and the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. In 2006 she completed a 4-panel wall quilt, commissioned by the
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Exhibit Dates: February 5-27, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 5-7pm, Bear Gallery Gallery Hours: Tuesday- Saturday, Noon-6pm Juror’s Lecture: February 1, 7pm, Blue Room All events and exhibits are held in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park Fairbanks Arts Association
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You’re Invited to attend the
2010 Interior Alaska Mayors’ Awards for the Arts March 12, 2010
Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts Theater
Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way
Categories of awards to include:
Arts and Leadership, Arts Advocacy, Youth Arts, Volunteer and Lifetime Acheivement This event is free and open to the public. For more information please call 456-6485 ext.226
Fairbanks Theater Groups seek 10-minute plays As part of their commitment to showcasing the work of Alaskan playwrights, the Fairbanks Drama Association and The Looking Glass Group Theatre invite Alaskan residents to send in their best 10-minute plays to be considered for the 9th Annual 8X10 Festival of New Alaskan Plays. Eight ten-minute plays will be given rehearsed staged readings at the Festival, which will be held April 16 & 17, 2010, at FDA’s Riverfront Theater in Fairbanks. Guidelines for entering scripts: • Alaskan residents only. • One entry per playwright. • One author per play. • No musicals or children’s plays. • Submit 5 (five) copies of each script, typed & bound, with pages numbered. • Cover page with playwright’s name and contact info, including phone and e-mail. (Playwright’s name & contact info should appear on cover page only.)
• “Cast of Characters” page with brief character descriptions following cover page. • Cast size should be no more than eight actors. • Plays should be between 8 & 12 minutes long based on one minute of playing time per page of script, 12 pt. font size, standard playwriting format. If you don’t know what that is, google it. (Cover and cast list pages will not be included in page count.) • No electronic submissions or Express mail. • Scripts will not be returned.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than March 15, 2010 and sent to: 8X10 Festival Fairbanks Drama Association/ Looking Glass Group Theatre 1852 Second Avenue Fairbanks, Alaska 99701
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Wood Ivory Clay Glass Metal Stone Sculpture Mixed-Media Fiber Skins Photography Original Prints Drawing Painting Watercolor Pastel Video (New) AWARDS Juror’s Choice $125 Second Place $100 Third Place $75 Honorable Mentions
FEBRUARY 5 – FEBRUARY 27, 2010 Opening reception: February 5, 5 – 7pm OPEN TO ANY CATEGORY
‘ELEMENTS OF CHANGE’
FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION Juried ART Exhibition
Fairbanks Arts Association
Friday, February 5 Tues/Wed., Feb. 2 – 3 Mon/Tues., March 1 - 2
5 -7pm 12-6pm 12-4pm
Opening Reception Pick up entries not selected Pick up exhibit entries
Monday, February 1 Guest juror will jury artwork Monday, February 1 7pm Juror’s Slide lecture Blue Room, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts
Friday, January 29 Noon First day to receive artwork Sunday, January 31 5pm Last day to receive artwork Deliver entries to the BEAR GALLERY Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts, Pioneer Park
ELIGIBILITY • Entries submitted only by the artist and limited to four entries. • Only artists residing in the Interior of Alaska, Doyon Region. • Original artwork only. Student work must reflect the artist’s unique creative effort. • No kits. No copies or exact replicas of other original artwork or published artwork. No copies of any published images or copyrighted characters, i.e. Disney. • Work must have been completed within the last two years and not previously exhibited in the BEAR GALLERY. CONDITIONS • Selected entries must remain on display through Saturday, February 27, 2010. • Entries will be handled with the greatest possible care and are insured against damage or loss for the duration of the exhibit. FAA is not responsible for minor wear resulting from normal handling. • FAA retains a 25% commission on all exhibit sales. Works will be for sale unless noted as th NFS (Not for Sale). Artist’s payments will be made on the 20 of the month following the exhibit’s closure. • Submitting an entry constitutes agreement on the part of the artist to all entry conditions. INSTRUCTIONS • Entries must be ready for display, matted and framed. • Works to be hung on the wall must have wire hangers. NO SAWTOOTH hangers. • Unusual hanging mechanisms must be approved by VAC coordinator. • Large Quilts must have 2 inches of Velcro stitched along the entire top. • NO VELCRO, NO ACCEPTANCE. • For Video submissions, see the information on the back of this prospectus.
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Medium: ____________________________Sale Price: _____NFS _____Insurance Value_____ • I have read and agree to abide by the conditions in the prospectus. Signature: ___________________________________________ • Registration numbers will be assigned to each item upon entry and must correspond with the label numbers on artwork. • Entry Form: Complete and sign. Fill out entry labels, fold in half and attach to the front of each artwork. The artist name must be hidden. • You will be informed by phone or email regarding artwork not selected. • If NOT FOR SALE, write NFS followed by the insurance value. • ENTRY FEE: $5 per piece. Limited to 4 entries. Current FAA members receive a fee waiver on the third entry only. Make checks payable to the Fairbanks Arts Association. _____________________________________________________________________________
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Fairbanks Shakespeare Theater presents
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February 18-March 7 For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (907) 457-7638 or visit www.fstalaska.org/
January 25-29, 20 10 5:30 and 8 pm Winter Edition C abaret Classes Offered By
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Fairbanks Light Opera Theater presents
“Sweeney Todd” West Valley Performing Arts Center March 2010
Fairbanks Shakespeare Theater presents
Visit www.flot.org for dates, ticket information and upcoming FLOT events. Don’t miss this fantastic show!
Antigone,
or I Really Wish You Hadn’t Done That adapted and directed by
Anne Thibault
April 8-25
For more information or to purchase tickets, please call (907) 457-7638 or visit www.fstalaska.org/
UA Museum of the North Exhibit
A Gathering of Gifts: Relationships That Build Our Collections February 6-May 8
New additions to the museum’s collections showcase the diverse relationships that expand the museum’s research collections. Learn about the donors, partnerships and field work that helped the museum acquire new works by contemporary Alaskan artists and other unique artifacts. Info: 474-7505 or museum@uaf.edu.
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Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra pre
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Zuill Bailey – cello with Eduard Zilberkant – Music Director & Conductor Sunday, February 21, 4pm
demic Festival Overture, This concert features Brahms – Aca en – Symphony No. 5 Elgar – Cello Concerto and Beethov , Student/Child - $10. Adults - $30, Sr. Citizen/Military - $25 or online at Tickets available by calling 474-5733 www.Fairbankssymphony.org
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Society Corner
Nelda L. Benson-Nixon is a home grown Fairbanks kid. I did all my schooling here, graduating high school in 1959. In the 40’s my father started Larson’s Jewelers & Locksmith. I worked for him, running the business for 12 years, until it was sold in 1989. Then I worked for the News-Miner until retiring in 2006. My first few watercolor lessons were in 1990. Then, after not painting for ten years, I began again in 2001. I have studied with many nationally known watercolor workshop instructors and locally with Neville Jacobs, Gael Murakami, Nelda L. Benson-Nixon Vladimir Zhikhartsev, and my husband, Tom Nixon. I truly enjoy painting on location or ‘en plein air’ in and around Fairbanks and elsewhere in Alaska in the summertime. I consider the scenery in Alaska to be so breathtakingly beautiful, it is a constant challenge to ‘capture’ it on paper. Which you never can! But, I also enjoy painting pictures of some of the old buildings and landmarks around Fairbanks in my own watercolor style. Mostly, I just love to paint!
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Derick Burlson Derick Burlson’s first book, Ejo; Poems, Rwanda 1991-1994 won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review and Poetry, among other journals. A recipient of a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, Burelson
teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and lives with his partner and daughter in Two Rivers.
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Community Arts Meeting February 3 at Noon Speaker: Pete Pinney, North Star Community Foundation Literary Arts February 15 at 5:30 p.m. Cinema Committee February 16 at 5:30 p.m. Visual Arts February 17 at 5:30 p.m. Community Arts Meeting February 24 at Noon Speaker: Brian Newton & Karen Cedzo, GVEA Round Up Program 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.
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In a Nick
Fairbanks Arts Association is pleased to help foster and support artists of all genres. For the next year we will feature the science fiction series In a Nick by Cheryl Joens. To learn more about FAA’s programs, please contact Melissa@fairbanksarts.org.
By Cheryl Joens • Episode 2
Thank you!
People stood glued to the information monitors. Updates remained continuos as the crisis played out on their Eastern Coast. “Tropical Storm Megan has now been re-classed and upgraded to Hurricane stature. It has been given the name Cindy…” The being that had slipped through the nick in time seemed to be at rest, if you could call riding
on the back of gale force winds resting. But he was waiting for just the right moment. When it came he began working his way down, much like one of the planetary ocean surfers, sliding along the inside of the hurricane adding small ingredients to the churning mixture as he went. Eventually he landed on the ground and stepped off into
the calmness of the eye of the hurricane and began walking away. As he walked, he seemed to be sniffing the air and sprinkling a fine dust-like substance about him from a pouch that was slung across his shoulder like a haversack. “If our calculations were correct, if we judged the variables accurately…” he trailed off.
I volunteer at Fairbanks Arts Association because I want to do my part. As a visual artist, I’ve submitted my work to FAA’s juried art shows. I’ve had some work accepted and some work rejected. Regardless of the outcome, it’s the opportunity to submit work that I so appreciate. To be an artist in Fairbanks is to be part of a large and active community. For the last forty years, FAA has played a vital role in supporting and promoting the arts and artists. How many individuals, how many artists, poets, writers, musicians; how many children’s lives has Fairbanks Arts Association touched? The tally’s immense. For me, it is a joy to think that by doing my small bit that I’m contributing to this much larger picture.
Volunteer Spotlight - Terry Glendinning