Artist Talks @ Bunnell

November 20, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Shared Universe Book Club

How 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.

November 13, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: David Brame on Afrofuturism and comics

David 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.

November 6, 2020- First Friday w/ Karen Stomberg & Elissa Pettibone

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.

 

October 30, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Chrisine Byl & Sara Tabbert

Christine 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.

October 23, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Sweden in Pandemic with Skövde Kulturhus Kostmuseet, curators Tomas Gustafsson and Mette Muhli, and artist, Berith Stennabb

How 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.

October 16, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Chilkat Weaver Lily Hope

Lily 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.

October 9, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Fragile Domestic Artists

Talking 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.

October 2, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Nigerian muralists Yomi Awobusuyi and Kelsen Nnaji

With 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.

October 2, 2020- First Friday w/ Amy Meissner, Hollis Mickey, Keren Lowell and Sonya Kelliher Combs and Keren Lowell of 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.

September 25, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Shared Universe Book Club with Nathan Shafer, Melissa Shaginoff, Dimi Macheras, and Richard Perry

How 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.