Artist Talks @ Bunnell

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.

September 18, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: Erin Coughlin Hollowell and Kes Woodward

After earning her MFA from the Rainier Writer’s Workshop Erin Coughlin Hollowell authored three books of poetry. She is a Rasmuson Foundation Fellows and In 2017, she was awarded a second Rasmuson Fellowship to work on her third book. Currently, Hollowell is the executive director of the Storyknife Writers Residency, a residency for women writers being developed outside of Homer, Alaska and she is Director of the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference.

Kesler “Kes” Woodward is an Alaska artist, art historian and curator known for his colorful paintings of northern landscapes. After teaching for and then chairing the Art Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks since 1981, Woodward retired as Professor in 2000 to paint full-time, receiving emeritus status from the university. He was awarded the first Alaska Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2004. more.

September 4, 2020- First Friday w/ Hal Gage & Rika Mouw

Hal Gage- (black & white photography of glacial silt) Patterns in the flowing mud and silt are the vanishing fingerprint of the glacier. These transitory images are all that is left as the ice disappears and the waters dry up—leaving just a hint of the glacier that once was.

Rika Mouw- (mussel shell assemblages) Through these mussel shell assemblages I reflect on the time I’ve spent on this edge of land where it meets the sea with the ebbs and flows of the tide. more.

September 11, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptaton: "Mapping Qacimak" with Bretwood Higman, Sally Ash and Argent Kvasnikoff

How can the names of this area be mapped more inclusively? With Bretwood Higman, Sally Ash and Argent Kvasnikoff. more.

September 11, 2020- Inspiration and Adaptation: "Land Acknowledgment in Action" with Melissa Shaginoff and workshop participants

Continuing our conversations with Indigenous artist, activist and curator Melissa Shaginoff, this week we discuss the sign painting workshop she led last month. Participants share how it feels and what inspires them to visibly honor the legacy of Indigenous stewardship on signs placed around Homer. more.