Episodes

Friday May 15, 2020
May 7, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ Amy Meissner & Carla Cope
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
May 7, 2020, featured Alaska artists Amy Meissner and Carla Cope. Amy Meissner combines traditional handwork, found objects and abandoned textiles to reference the literal, physical and emotional work of women. She has shown internationally with textile work in the permanent collections of the Anchorage Museum, the Contemporary Art Bank of Alaska and the Alaska Humanities Forum as well as various private collections. Carla Cope, from Homer, graduated with a BFA from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2003 and lived and painted in Oregon, Wisconsin and California before moving back to Homer in 2010. Carla “finds fresh inspiration in this beautiful and quirky place. I’m driven by color and pattern. My imagery is derived from personal narrative and the messy, lyrical, tragic and profound experience of being an Alaskan woman, an artist, and a mother.” more.

Thursday Apr 16, 2020
April 16, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ David Pettibone & Ryan Conarro
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
David Pettibone is a figurative painter. He makes paintings of people and places which seek to convey the visceral emotions that arise from our convoluted relationship with the natural world.Ryan Conarro makes story-centered performance and sound works that aim to cultivate relationship and community more.

Saturday Apr 11, 2020
April 9, 2020- Inspiration In Isolation w/ Amber Webb & Emily Johnson
Saturday Apr 11, 2020
Saturday Apr 11, 2020
Amber Webb is an artist and activist from Dillingham, Alaska of Yup’ik and Unangax̂ heritage. Amber explores pictorial Yup’ik storytelling to tell contemporary stories of oppression and resilience. Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. She is based in New York. Raised in Soldotna, Alaska, she is of Yup’ik descent. more.

Saturday Apr 04, 2020
April 3, 2020- Inspiration in Isolation w/ Annette Bellamy & Molly Lou Freeman
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020

Thursday Mar 26, 2020
March 26, 2000- Inspiration and Isoloation w/ Argent Kvasnikoff and Eowyn Ivey
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Visual artist Argent Kvasnikoff (Dena'ina/Alutiiq, from the Ninilchik tribe) and Alaska author Eowyn Ivey (Palmer, Alaska) discuss impacts of the virus and strategies for creative productivity. more.

Thursday Mar 12, 2020
March 6, 2020- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Atz Kilcher & Deland Anderson
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Deland Anderson- "Rivers are the arteries of Alaska. Some are ancient. Some are brand new. Some are famed waterways. Others are so isolated only wild creatures travel their courses..." Atz Kilcher has been creating root and fiber baskets sourced from the landscape surrounding Homer for almost 35 years. "Each basket is adorned with found objects I have collected over the years..." Read more at www.Bunnellarts.org

Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
February 7, 2020- First Friday Opening Artist Talk, Tamara Wilson Exhibit
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
“I am inspired by domestic spaces, memories, investigations of how things work, daily routines, and industrial materials, but also the need to escape it all and dream. My ideal creative environment is somewhere between an auto shop and a sewing room in a place beyond the reach of cell towers on top of a mountain that is weathered in with cotton candy clouds." Read more at www.Bunnellarts.org

Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Ninilchik native artist Argent Kvasnikoff was born in Homer and studied linguistic anthropology and art history. He works with humanist themes illuminated by his indigenous culture, with most of his work involving his culture’s endangered Dena’ina language through the Qena Sint’isis project.

Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Bunnell Street Arts Center presents “Qaspeq / Kuspuk /Atikluk” an invitational exhibit of innovations in traditional Yup’ik wearable art created by Indigenous Alaska, artists October 4 – November 4, 2019.
Featured artists:
Amber Webb
Bobby Itta
Carla Gingrich
Erin Gingrich
Nita Rearden
Darlene Wright

Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Alaska artist Sonya Kelliher Combs exhibits new work at Bunnell Street Arts Center during Alaska World Arts Festival.