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FAITH:

Connect Palmer Inc. www.ConnectPalmer.org (907) 746-9675 Connect Palmer is a Christ Centered Training Center and Housing for Women located in downtown Palmer. Connect Palmer’s two primary programs are God’s Work Design, and LIFE Connect. We also have Sarah’s House, which a Safe and Caring place for ladies, without homes, to live while they participate in our back to work and life skills programs.

We also offer different community assistant programs, such as The Locker, to provide personal care and basic house hold cleaning items and Scarlet Tapestries which offers basic sewing skills instruction. We are a 501c3 nonprofit organization.

OTHER Mat-Su Health Services, Inc. www.mshsak.org (907) 376-2411 Dedicated to improving the health of our community, one person at a time – through affordable medical, dental and behavioral health care.The clinic is a Federally qualified Health Care Center and we accept Medicare, Medicaid, and most other third-party insurances. For those who qualify, there is a sliding scale payment, based on household income.

We offer early morning and evening appointments appointment. You can also contact our 24/7 behavioral crisis intervention line by calling the main number: 376-2411.

PETS & ANIMALS:

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Alaska Animal Advocates www.alaskaanimaladvocates.com (907) 841-3173 Alaska Animal Advocates is a non-profit group of dedicated volunteers who are devoted to enriching the lives of companion animals in Alaska.

In order to do this, we will place homeless pets in loving environments, address medical concerns, spay or neuter, microchip, vaccinate, and offer training as is needed.

We believe that every animal deserves a loving home, for his/her entire life and Alaska Animal Advocates will provide the resources to make this happen.

In order to make this mission possible, we need the help of volunteers and foster homes.

FAMILIES & CHILDREN:

ARTS:

Denali Family Services

Valley Arts Alliance

291 East Swanson Ave. Wasilla, AK 907-222-2331 or eolivares@denalifs.org Denali Family Services provides therapeutic foster care to Alaskan children with mental health needs. If you are committed to working with a team, receiving training and implementing positive interventions to schoolage children and teens, we need your talents and skills.

We are in search of professional, therapeutic foster parents who are willing to make a commitment to the children of Alaska by providing a stable home environment.

For more information, please call or email our Foster Care Recruiter, Ernestina D. Olivares, at 907-222-2331 or eolivares@denalifs.org.

www.ValleyArtsAlliance.com Valley Arts Alliance, bringing the community together through the arts... We are a place for both new and established artists of all types— painters, sculptors, musicians, and those involved in the performing arts—to network and to experiment with new ideas and media.

We work with local libraries, schools, museums, art councils, and music and art groups to create more venues for the arts, and to help promote art related events.

Join us at our informal weekly meetings, every Thursday @ 11 at Sophia’s Cafe, 9191 E Frontage Road, Palmer-Wasilla Hwy. Check out our archives www.ValleyArtsAlliance.com

Mat-Su Health Foundation

CONSERVATION:

healthymatsu.org (907) 352-2863 The Mat-Su Health Foundation offers financial and strategic support to well-managed 501(c)(3) organizations that offer services and practical solutions to significant health-related problems impacting the citizens of the Mat-Su Borough.

The foundation also offers academic and vocational scholarships to Mat-Su residents who wish to pursue health and wellness related careers.

COMMUNITY: Matanuska Electric Association (MEA) Charitable Foundation www.mea.coop/mea-in-the-community/round-up meacontact@mea.coop 907-761-9300 Since 2011, the MEA Charitable Foundation has given grants to fund projects impacting libraries, playgrounds, seniors, veterans, recycling, at-risk youth, and much more. In 2018, MEA Charitable Foundation reached over $1,000,000 in contributions to the community with Operation RoundUp® Program!

Organizational grants are capped at $10,000, individual grants are capped at $2,500. Please remember to check our website for requirements and submit your completed application — including financials!

Valley Community for Recycling Solutions www.valleyrecycling.org (907) 745-5544 RECYCLING: Be part of the solution. DROP OFF: The community recycling center is located at 9465 E Chanlyut Circle, next to the MSB Animal Shelter at the Central Landfill. Follow the smells.

HOURS: Drive through drop-off is open Tues – Fri 10:30 to 6:00 and Sat 10:00 to 3:30.

Recycle cardboard, aluminum cans, magazines, this newspaper and more. Remember to REDUCE, REUSE, and then RECYCLE! ONLINE: Visit our website for more details, follow us on Facebook.

To learn more, visit our classroom. Volunteer opportunities available. Make a difference in your community!

EMPLOYMENT SERVICES: Mat-Su Regional Adult Basic Education (Nine Star) MatsuAdultEd@ninestar.com (907) 373-7833 Mat-Su ABE provides basic education in math, language arts and English as a second language (ESL), aiming to raise student skills beyond the high-school level in order to pass tests like the GED, enter training programs or college, and advance on the job. Enrollment is open to all adult residents of Alaska, year-round.

Youth Employment for ages 16-24 not in school -- get a job, keep a job, advance on the job. Nine Star 300 N Willow 373-3006 (in the MYHouse building)

FAITH: Valley Interfaith Action (VIA) www.valleyinterfaithaction.org (907) 230-1006 To address quality of life issues for all residents of the Mat-Su Borough, utilizing the faith values of our members, developing community-wide interest and mobilization around quality of life issues.

Through training, leaders address community problems by providing forums for discussion, researching alternative solutions, and working as facilitators with residents and leaders for institutional change.

HOMELESS YOUTH: Mat-Su Youth Housing (MY HOUSE) myhousematsu.org (907) 373-4357 MY House is a homeless youth drop in center with two for-profit businesses that train and employ homeless youth. Gathering Grounds Cafe is a coffee shop with homemade soups, sandwiches, salads and baked goods.

Steamdriven is a trendy thrift shop featuring Steampunk items made from repurposed donations by our youth designers. Fiend2Clean and Young People in Recovery offer support for substance abuse recovery with activities and events.

We offer transitional housing for qualified 18-24 year olds, Outreach services to connect homeless youth, organizations and groups to services, and access to Public Health and NineStar job/education services on site.

SOCIAL ADVOCACY: Wasilla Homeless-Committee www.wasillahomeless-committee.org (907) 521-2949 Wasilla Homeless-Committee is a 100% volunteer organization funded by private donations and regular fundraising events. Our sole purpose is to assist the homeless, those at risk of homelessness, and others who do not meet the criteria for help that is required by other advocacy agencies in the valley.

Wasilla Homeless-Committee provides case management, housing search assistance, move in assistance, job search assistance, clothing, furniture, help with transportation, and resource guidance for homeless and disenfranchised in the Mat-Su Valley.

Visit our website for application, or call 907521-2949. Find us on Facebook facebook.com/ wasillahomelesscommitteepage

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Arts & Community Contributed by Suzanne Edwards Jerry and Suzanne Edwards had no idea that someday they would be having an art exhibit together, when they met at the Post Office in 2010. As a matter of fact, standing in a long line at the Wasilla Post Office resulted in lots of surprises.

Suzanne, who had never had any children of her own, married Jerry in 2013 and they had six out of his seven grandchildren in their wedding.

After their retirement, they started taking art workshops, including those offered at The Machetanz Art Festival, at Mat-Su College of UAA, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Alaska Watercolor Society, and Kachemak Bay Society visiting artist workshops. Now the two of them are ready to show a body of work as a result of the last five years of art making together.

Stop by Kaladi Brothers in the Carrs Mall during the month of June and feast your eyes on some very exciting watercolor pieces!

For more information contact Suzanne at (907) 301-5308. By the way, if you find yourself standing in a long line at the Post Office, just remember that some folks met there, then ended up happily married and showing their art together.

That was followed by a brief stint with Alaska State Parks, and then thirteen years as a program coordinator for Neighborhood Crime Watch. Now, you’ll most likely find me at Bishops Attic!

Contributed by Kristen Spencer

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The pun is almost irresistible.

The next time someone calls and asks, “what are you up to?” I’m gonna say: “I’m doing the dishes!” Yup, that’s right. I scrounge up glass and ceramic dishware and turn it into art for the garden. It was only supposed to be a hobby, as starting a business was never on my plate.

I moved to Palmer from Anchorage about six years ago with the normal expectations. When things didn’t turn out as planned, I had to get creative. That’s when I started “Make It A Garden”.

Surprisingly, it was this simple, little endeavor that has opened doors and helped me make connections.

Gardens have always been a source of inspiration for me. I’d been in the process of developing my outdoor spaces, transplanting all the perennials

from my former home, putting in a lawn, getting a little garden shed built. But art is what transforms mere spaces into places.

When you look at the cover of a gardening magazine, you see the flowers, but the emotional appeal – what makes you yearn to be there – is the artistic design elements in that setting. Art is the magic that makes a bland wooden fence spring to life, or turns the average storage shed into a charming focal point. There are many creative and affordable ways to make backyards and gardens more fun and inspiring places to spend time.

It’s kinda weird, but growing up, I had very little interest in art at all. My family came to Alaska in 1968. My mom planted a huge vegetable garden in the backyard and us kids had to put in some time during the summer. That’s how I learned gardening.

After High School, I went into radio broadcasting and worked at local stations for about ten years.

Maybe that’s where it all started. I worked with some very creative and imaginative people.

I’m always on the lookout for unusual things as I tend to experiment a lot with my designs. Each item is distinctly one-of-a-kind. It’s more challenging artistically and often, I’m never quite sure myself how a certain piece will turn out. The real reward though, is in the smiles they bring. It’s all about the simple pleasure of giving ordinary things new life, which in return has given me a new life as an entrepreneur and craftsman.

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Contributed by Michael Consalo In 2019, Make A Scene Magazine, in partnership with Michael C Marketing, The City of Wasilla and Q 99.7, just to name a few, came together to continue “The Pass @ The Park”. Rebranded “Music in the Park” this great event will offer live music, vendors, prizes, and food trucks, all with free admission. While 95.5 isn’t here anymore, we hope to carry on the great tradition they, and The City of Wasilla, started. That included the Art Submission Contest, which we completed early last month. We had several entries and narrowed it down to 3 possibilities.

Thanks to you, the voters, we chose a winner with her beautiful painting of animals playing music in a park, with a mountain background scene.

You can see our amazing posters hanging around Wasilla and Palmer, in Make A Scene Magazine, or on Facebook, thanks to this year’s winner Sara Squartsoff-Mckinley. Sara is a lifelong Alaskan, born in Kodiak and raised in Port Lions, AK. Inspired by her grandfather, she has been painting most of her life and is fortunate to be able to paint full time with her business “Paint Nights with Sara”.

Paint Nights with Sara offers paint classes each week at her studio on the Parks highway across from SBS. The classes offer a step by step instruction, for all ages, on how to paint a wide variety of paintings, that change each night. Mountains, birds, flowers, and all the things Alaskans love fill the studio that can fill up to 30 people for corporate events and private parties.

You can find her classes online at paintwithsara.com or on Facebook.

She wins $200 and will have her art displayed not only on our posters, but in the halls of our sponsors. Since each sponsor gets a poster framed and autographed by all the bands that play in the 4 Friday night event at Wonderland Park, her art will be around town for years to come!

We hope to see all of you at Music in the Park, June 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th from 6 to 9 PM, at Wonderland Park.

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Congratulations Sara, and thanks to everyone that participated in this year’s contest.

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Poetry & Short Stories Contributed by Lawrence E. McGee Once upon a time, not so very long ago there lived a little boy with his family in their Cape Cod house in New England.

Now, this little boy made mistakes, told fibs and generally got in trouble.

After all, that is one of the ways that children learn and grow, isn’t it? Well, this little boy – we’ll call him Stewart – had a sister who was much older, and a baby brother who was quite a bit younger, so when there was any trouble it was pretty clear who was the culprit.

Stewart lived in a tiny bedroom his father had built in the north end of the house’s attic and it was always chilly in there. The steam radiator would bang and hiss and gurgle, but not much heat came out. Beyond the short side walls under the eaves it was even colder, and it was dark and spooky, with all sorts of abandoned clutter stored in there.

Stewart was a good little boy at heart so he got quite tired of learning by making mistakes and getting in trouble. What to do? Aha, he thought, I’ll invent an imaginary friend to take the blame for some of the missteps! And

so, he invented the Eskimo Who Lives Under the Eaves.

Next time there was trouble, Stewart put on his best serious face and said, “The Eskimo Who Lives Under the Eaves did it”. Well. What’s a scolding old mother to do? Punish him for making trouble AND for fibbing about it?

Or believe him. His mother, who was very strict, was also a good person at heart and admired creativity just said, “Oh,” and let the whole thing drop.

Stewart concealed a wicked grin. It had worked! Soon he overheard his mother telling his father and his aunt and his uncle and the neighbors about

the Eskimo and he was very happy.

He knew the Eskimo was imaginary, but he pretended to truly believe in him. And his mother thought it was so sweet that Stewart had an imaginary friend. Being careful not to overdo it, Stewart and the Eskimo grew through a bumpy spot in growing up, and his mother was relieved not to have to pester him over every little thing that went wrong.

And so they all lived happily ever after.

Or at least for a while.

THE END

Contributed by Mary Wessling Water billows icy ripples against my shivering skin.

I peer through the misty fog beyond the gentle waves and into the faint abyss.

Air fills my lungs with every deepening breath, clear and crisp.

I gradually shift further through the sand as the ocean raises, drifts, and raises again.

The fear settles in.

My shadow fades into the darkness as the sun sets below my line of sight.

My eyes lavish the remains of the nearly imperceptible night.

My skin begins to numb from the tossing waves, sparkling blue beneath the moonlight.

My legs give in to the icy, unforgiving ripples and I sink into its cold embrace, leaving behind my fear and spite.

The calm takes over my endless fight.

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I awaken in a hammock of hopelessness, swinging back and forth from worries to ignorance.

Questioning my indecisiveness, I crawl, roll, tug, and fall to escape this metaphorical existence.

I drop to the rocky ground, with no intentions or attentiveness, and feel the rippling waves soften my skin and pull me back to their embracing abyss once again.

Contributed by Robert and Alexandria Lyons Angyakun ayagluta yuillqumun (boat ride to the pretty tundra) Iqvaryarturluta ellaallugmi (to pick berries, in the rain) Qalltaput imirluki ellaakegtaarmi (fill up buckets on sunny days) Ellaalliqan qamai-i kamiiniaq aspiaq (when it pours, indoors is a nice fiery roar) Neqkaput Naunrat/akuutat ukusurpak! (lots of salmon-berry delight all winter!)

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Contributed by Todd Farnsworth So, you got that guitar off Craigslist. You haggled on price because the action is an inch high, the fretboard hasn’t been cleaned since its construction and the photo did it too much justice. No worries - you’re handy and aren’t opposed to applying a little elbow grease. You get her all cleaned up and conditioned (with Wood & Wire small batch cleaner and oil, of course) and put that fresh set of strings on. Oh yeah, the strings are still a foot off the board. But it ain’t no thang, you have the perfect wrench for the truss rod. That’ll take care of that pesky action, right? Wrong.

Contributed by Cassi Campbell Machetanz Art Festival May 31 - June 1, 2019 – 9AM 8295 E. College Drive, Palmer Matanuska-Susitna College is proud to announce the lineup for the 2019 Machetanz Arts Festival. This event is named in honor and memory of Fred and Sara Machetanz, who have been closely associated with the early years of Mat-Su College. The artwork of Fred Machetanz adorns the walls of homes and institutions across Alaska and beyond, while the books of Sara Machetanz can be found on bookshelves across the country. This festival is an opportunity to nurture the spirit that impelled the Machetanz family to embrace the arts.

In its ninth year, this festival will feature over 20 one and two-day workshops, in a number of different art disciplines for all skill levels including drawing, glass work, mixed media, painting, music, quilting, wood burning, digital camera setup and more. “This annual event allows us to not only honor the Machetanz family, who were such important parts of this institution from the very beginning, but to share the arts with our community.” said Cassi Campbell, Public Relations and Communications Coordinator at Mat-Su College.

New this year to the festival will be an art walk, showing off the art created during the festival. The event will be held from 3:30-4:30PM on the bridge between the Fred and Sara Machetanz Building (FSM) and Snodgrass Hall.

For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/Machetanz/ or www.matsu.alaska.edu/academic-programs Questions can be answered by contacting Teri at 745-9775 or tkjeffress@alaska.edu

Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t want your neck completely flat. You want a slight amount of bow, called relief, or you’ll likely end up with fret buzz, particularly when setup with low action. This is what your truss rod accomplishes.

Too much relief, and you will end up with a guitar that plays less than comfortably and will likely buzz in the upper registers. Too little and you’ll likely get the aforementioned fret buzz, especially at the first fret.

Now that we’re on the same page with truss rod function, you should know that the whole neck is not affected by the truss rod. What?! I know, it seems strange, but the actual working portion of the rod doesn’t run the entire length of the neck. It really only works from about the 1st/2nd fret till somewhere around the14th on an acoustic and somewhere around the 16th on an electric. Basses might get away with the 1st/2nd to the 16th/18th frets.

I don’t want to get into much detail on types of truss rods, because my purpose here is to discuss what they do and do not. However, if anyone out there is geeking out over it, there’s basically two main types: single and double action.

To put it simply, a single action works one direction (typically to add relief ) and a double action works both directions (add or take away relief ).

Also of note is that a truss rod can only do so much when working against string tension. If you play with heavy strings or a long scale guitar, your truss rod has to work a little harder. Adjusting the truss rod while under tension may yield poor results, or the results may not become manifest until the next time you change strings (or remove tension). This depends largely on whether you’re introducing or removing relief. But if you have the truss rod set improperly for long enough, it’s possible that the neck will hold that position. Then that little rod will never fully be able to do its job, down the road, because the neck has “frozen”.

To sum things up, don’t misunderstand the truss rods purpose. While it does affect action, that’s not really what it’s for. It is indeed interactive with string action, but if you try to set action with the truss rod alone, you will end up with a guitar that doesn’t play comfortably in all positions and will likely have buzz somewhere, if not everywhere. So, say it with me - truss rods are not for setting action, they’re for setting relief. So now you know truss rod fact and fiction.

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Space is limited, so pre-registration is recommended at www.registermsc.asapconnected.com. Early or day of registration is also available by stopping into Mat-Su College’s Campus Cache store.

Yes, how you set the truss rod does indeed affect the action, to a degree. But it’s important that you understand its function is NOT to set your string action. Other components of the guitar and how it’s setup control that.

String height is more or less a byproduct of what a truss rod does: setting the neck relief.

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Literature Contributed by Jess Lederman The idea for my novel Hearts Set Free – an Amazon Best Seller in Contemporary Christian Fiction for the past two months – came to me not long after my first wife passed away, while I was living in Wasilla. The first chapter, which is narrated by one of the story’s heroes, Luke (Uukkarnit) Noongwook, opens in the Alaska Territory in 1925. The first few paragraphs are provided below.

From Chapter One of Hearts Set Free: My father deserted my mother and me when I was thirteen years old. He had become famous that winter on the Great Race of Mercy, one of the Athabascan mushers who brought diphtheria serum to Nome and saved ten thousand lives. He’d done the impossible, a blind run in the howling darkness, crossing the open ice of the Norton Sound, the temperature falling to sixty below, the sun a distant dream. He was our hero, our North Star.

And then he was gone.

He left us, of course, for a woman. A blizzard had hit him at Unalakleet, a storm so powerful that it travelled four thousand miles, till at last it reached New York and froze the Hudson River. The woman lived in just that far-away land, on the wild island of Manhattan, and her name was Kathleen Byrne. The Hearst papers had been giving the Great Race frontpage headlines; Kathleen was a reporter, lean and hungry, she’d go to the ends of the earth for a good story, and one day she got her chance.

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No one in my home town of Nenana had seen anything like her, a slender redhead with emerald eyes, smoking Lucky Strikes and exhaling expertly through her nostrils, this coolly confident young woman with fiery hair.

She wanted details that would bring the story to life, so father brought her to our home to show off his sled dogs. At least, the ones who’d survived; for three he had raised since they were pups had died on the trail. Somewhere in the madness of that journey he’d forgotten to cover their groins with rabbit skins, and they’d perished of frost bite in the unfathomable cold.

I gaped at her stupidly.

“Excuse my son,” said my mother. “He has no manners.”

Eighty-six years have passed since that time, but from old photographs I understand just what my father must have felt. She seemed audacious and yet fragile, and she had the sort of smile that made men who’d known her barely fifteen minutes want to say, “if you smile that way at any other man, I’ll lose my mind.” I’m not talking about lust, you understand; rather, a sort of greed combined with something barely distinguishable from rage.

And what did Miss Byrne want with my father? Ah, but what an outrageous trophy to bring back from the Arctic frontier! His native name was Taliriktug, strong arm, but he went by his English name, Victor. He was sinewy, powerful, and, for an Athabascan, unusually tall.

His maternal grandfather had been an Orthodox priest, a Russian who came to Alaska as a missionary and proceeded to lose his faith in this strange new world. He joined some fur traders, then married a native woman, my great grandmother. All local legend, all stories overheard when my father and his friends had been drinking, for the Russian and his wife both died years before I was born.

When Kathleen left, my father went with her. He said there’d be interviews with The Saturday Evening Post, and on something called radio that could send his voice into a hundred thousand homes, maybe more. He said Miss Byrne had reason to think the Lambert Pharmaceutical Company might pay him a lifetime’s wages for endorsing a product called Listerine.

He said he’d write letters and be back in just a few months.

But I was the only one he fooled.

that you will not be disappointed!” Aimee Ann, redheadedbooklover.com “This is a soaring historical epic… Jess Lederman has given us unforgettable characters…”

– WisePath Books

You can read or listen to the first chapter here:

www.jesslederman.com/hearts-set-free

“…uplifting and compelling… a powerful and inspiring novel.”

– Foreword Clarion Reviews

“Hearts Set Free enthralled, entertained, and enchanted me from the very first page! If you are a reader who is tired of reading the same old books, take a chance with this one because I promise

Hearts Set Free is available in paperback or for Kindle at www.amazon.com. It’s free for anyone who subscribes to Kindle Unlimited.

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Arts & Entertainment

Contributed by Carmen Summerfield Valley Arts Alliance Art on Fire Iron Pour Art Fest 06/22/2019 – 10:00 AM Valley Arts Alliance Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry 3800 W. Museum Drive, Wasilla Tickets are $10, kids under 12 FREE www.ValleyArtsAlliance.com It’s time for another hot, Hot, HOT Iron Pour! Yes, for the 12th consecutive year, the Valley Arts Alliance Art on Fire Iron Pour Art Fest will be held on Saturday, June 22, 2019 in Wasilla. The Valley will be buzzing with artists from across the country, as they gather to cast unique iron sculptures, create Raku pottery, and engage in other similar “fiery” events.

A team of skilled foundry men and women, consisting of Pat Garley, who owns Arctic Fires Bronze in Palmer, D’jean Jawrunner, a college professor from New Mexico who teaches metal casting, Donnie Keen, a commercial foundry owner from Houston, Texas, and other local sculptors and skilled metal workers will demonstrate the fascinating 5,000 year old iron casting process using a custom designed furnace known as a cupola.

In the weeks preceding this event, Pat Garley (441-6728) will be offering workshops in metal casting and mold making at his studio in Palmer.

These workshops will continue at the VAA Art on Fire Iron Pour Art Fest, when these molds are poured with liquid iron. See scenes of last year’s event on our 2018 Art on Fire archives page, www.ValleyArtsAlliance.com.

And for examples of completed iron sculptures that were displayed at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, see our 2012 Art on Fire Sculpture archive page.

Throughout the day, artist Sandra Cook, who owns “SL Cook Pottery and Fiber Werks” in Palmer, will conduct her Raku pottery workshop. Sandra will provide each participant with a vessel or pot of unglazed ceramic ware, known as bisque, which the participants will decorate with a variety of glazes and then fire in one of Sandra’s special Raku kilns. After a short firing, the “red hot” vessels will be placed inside a metal can full of combustible materials, a process that draws the oxygen out of the glaze and is responsible for the unique and completely unpredictable Raku look.

The Association of Alaskan Blacksmiths will demonstrate blacksmithing techniques, Judy Vars will demonstrate Encaustic wax painting, and other fiery arts, such as glass flameworking, will also be demonstrated.

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The VAA Art on Fire Iron Pour Art Fest will be held at the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry, located at 3800 W. Museum Drive (near the airport) in Wasilla, from 10am until 5pm on Saturday, June 22. The ticket price is $10, with children under 12 admitted free. Please join the fun! We hope to turn this day into an extraordinary Iron Pour Art Fest in the Valley!