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Tune in to hear selected artists talks each month, at Bunnell Street Arts Center.
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Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
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.
Monday Oct 05, 2020
Monday Oct 05, 2020
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.
Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 2020
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.
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
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.
Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 18, 2020
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.
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
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.
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Skywalker Payne’s work embraces her experience as a professional oral storyteller, performance artist, author, poet, nurse, and healer. She is leading a new workshop model called R.A.C.E.S. (Race A Concept Explored in Story Circle). Built upon her storytelling experience, knowledge of Black history and racism, Skywalker found storytelling an effective method to communicate difficult feelings and experiences. The goal is to establish R.A.C.E.S. Circle as a model to enable anyone to rise above limiting racial concepts. This tool can be used in businesses or organizations to explore race in a non-threatening, non-judgemental, empathetic space. Bunnell's board and staff participated in a R.A.C.E.S workshop last month and and some will be joining us on Zoom for our conversation. more.
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Born in New Zealand, Sheryl Maree Reily lives in the small mining town of Ester. The gravity of the global situation prompted her to transform her creative practice as a self- taught photographer and healthcare professional into an arts-based advocacy for human and environmental wellbeing. Her work draws upon an expanded field of sculpture, performance, installation, and media technology. Reily has received three Rasmuson Foundation individual artist awards, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and Santa Fe Art Institute Fellowships, and serves on the Alaska State Council for the Arts Visual Arts Committee, and with the Emily Tremaine Foundation's Artists Thrive platform.
Artist and researcher Nina Elder creates projects that reveal humanity’s dependence on, and interruption of, the natural world. With a focus on changing cultures and ecologies, Nina advocates for collaboration, fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. She lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, develops publicly engaged programs, and consults with organizations that seek to grow through interdisciplinary programming. Nina’s artwork is widely exhibited and has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, and on PBS. She is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. more.
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Scott McDonald an artist, an art educator, and a lifetime resident of Alaska. He teaches K-6 art for Anchorage School District as well as an active studio practice in both Homer and Anchorage.
Anvil Catlin Williamson was born and raised in Spokane, WA but has been a permanent resident of Fairbanks, Alaska since 2008. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2016 and has been a full-time artist since 2017.
Sheila Wyne is a visual artist based in Anchorage. Her studio work has been shown across the state, the Lower 48 and overseas. Her work is in permanent collections of several Alaska museums, and she has designed over 20 public artworks.
Michael Conti is a photographer, filmmaker and printmaker living and working on the land of the Dena’ina people in Anchorage Alaska. He is also a professor of photography at the University of Alaska Anchorage. more.