Celebrate ‘summer of love’

by Homer Staff
Any sentimental yearnings for lava lamps and love beads, light shows and lengthy sit-ins?

Cindy Nelson at Ptarmigan

Ptarmigan Arts starts its September exhibit on First Friday with a celebration of the 1960s entitled “‘67 Unlimited.” Remember Vietnam, Kent State and Selma Alabama? If so, you might agree there’s no end to the possibilities for art in the era pushing peace, love and happiness.
The event features the original art of a dozen artists, groovy music, light show, lava lamp, love beads, live hippies and brownies 5-7 p.m. Friday at Ptarmigan. Patrons are invited to come dressed like a hippie “and embarrass your children.”
Arts include hand-dyed silk scarves by Cindy Nelson and Kathleen Drew; new art and art created in the ‘60s by Jeane Steele; multi media collage by Peggy Fischer; paintings from the ‘60s by Carolyn Seymour; Marquetry by Dan Fischer; “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by Renee Jahnke; Peace cards by Renee Jahnke and lots more.

Garry Kaulitz at Bunnell

Fireweed Gallery presents “Serendipity,” an exhibit of new works by Homer artists Char Jump, Katherine Little, Ingrid McKinstry, Elizabeth Petersen, and Christina Whiting. Large scale and smaller paintings in watercolor, acrylic or oil will be shown along with photographic images. The exhibit opens in a reception on Friday 5-7:30 p.m. and continues throughout the month.
Garry Kaulitz’ monoprint “Impressions” opens at a reception Friday at Bunnell Street Gallery, with an artist’s talk at 6 p.m. Kaulitz is a professor of art at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where he has taught printmaking, drawing and painting for the past 13 years. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, receiving a BFA in Illustration and an MFA in printmaking. His work has been exhibited internationally, nationally and regionally in over 250 group and solo exhibitions. He is also is the recipient of several awards, including Rasmusson grants, represented in numerous private, public and museum collections. His current work deals with “the enigmatic nature of existence and the juxtaposition of the human form and mind frictions and fiction.”
This exhibit has its origination in a “Burning Man Project,” in 2008-09 at a gathering of 40,000 who build a city every year in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. The project has evolved into an ecological experiment that resulted in the artist’s current exhibit.
Picture Alaska art gallery presents a group invitational show of work by artists in their choice of media, resulting “in an eclectic mix of delightful and interesting art pieces.” Included in the show are photography on canvas by George Clark, silk wall hangings by Kerry Cline, mixed media photo by Paula Dickey, hand-made hats by  Susan DiFranzia, discharge batik by Laurie Marta, mono prints on fabric by Karin Franzen, oil painting by Don Kolstad, colored pencil by Alice Mayo Shaw, encaustic wall hanging by Sheary Clough Suiter, water media by Jan Thurston and sculpture by Leo Vait. An opening reception is 5 – 7 p.m Friday.

Dan Fischer at Ptarmigan

The Art Shop Gallery hosted the works and often the visits of Alaska’s best-loved artists over the summer months: Byron Birdsall, Barbara Lavallee, Guitta Corey, Jon Van Zyle, Leola Rutherford, Liz Bowen, Libby Berezin, Gail Neibrugge and photographer Taz Tally. Now it’s to late to peruse their works in a First Friday reception.
“Our Alaska Summer Artist series is over, but the art is still here and our off season Treasure Corner resumes,” said owner Karin Marks. The First Friday exhibit at the Art Shop features the works of these artists, along with special foods prepared by Two Sisters and Wild Bill.