Art Briefs – March 3
Downward Dog brings Peter Rowan
Grammy-award winner and five-time Grammy nominee, Peter Rowan will play at the Down East Saloon tomorrow at 8 p.m. Tickets for the Downward Dog-sponsored, no-smoking show are $32. Rowan is a bluegrass singer/songwriter with a career spanning more than five decades. He spent his early years playing under the tutelage of [...]
Is Homer high fashion starting a new trend?
Local artist Ann-Margret Wimmerstedt took top honors at an Anchorage fashion show Feb. 6 that pitted her against some fairly stiff competition from centers of high fashion as far away as Los Angeles. “Object Runway” certainly seems a bit more en vogue than some would guess Homer could outdo, yet fellow artists shouldn’t underestimate the power of a painter with miles of beach out her front door and lots of dreaming space.
Art Briefs – Feb. 17
Keeping it ‘Under :30’
The Bunnell Street Arts Center presents “Under: 30 Live Performance Art,” as a 16th-annual event featuring the work of Don Decker and other artists. Decker takes a lighthearted look at our common fears through performance video and live reading. The event also features Van Le’s “Letters to Ho Chi Minh,” [...]
‘Jazzmom’ keeps it real this Valentine’s Day
In 2005, Melissa Bledsoe Fischer took top honors in the Anchorage Press Picks as the Alaska city’s “best singer.” Four years later, she returned to claim “Best Local Solo Act” by those same readers.
So what’s her secret?
Into the labyrinth, back to the frosty beach
Even with a windchill at 20 below, artist James P. Buncak, unhampered, sets up his oil-based paint for a seat by the heaving ice in Kachemak’s Mud Bay. Or maybe he’s hunkered down among glistening ice crystals out on Diamond Ridge.
Weathering Alaska’s chill is something Buncak expects of himself.
“I try not to invent things.” he said. “As a painter, you can’t just stay in a studio because then, you might start inventing and get off track with what’s in front of you.”
Metropolitan Opera makes overtures at Homer Theatre
It took about two years for Homer Theatre owner Jamie Sutton and manager Robin Daugherty to pull it off, but their extra efforts were rewarded recently with the theater’s live telecast of five Metropolitan Opera performances. Homer will share the showings with other communities throughout the country.
And while Homer may well be the first small community in Alaska to tap into the talent of the famed Lincoln Center’s productions through this new media offering, Anchorage has shown Metropolitan Opera for the past year.
Homer designers take on ‘Object Runway’ in Anchorage
When local dress designer Kari Multz looks at a dress, her sense of sight and imagination starts taking over in terms of possibilities: an old silk kimono makes a soft lining, men’s discarded ties from the ‘70s fashion into bodices.
Even photographs and painted pictures contain endless options. By computer, they are transferred onto fabric for the front of a dress or skirt. This form of dress designing is a collaboration between art mediums and artists, and it’s known as recycling.
Art Briefs – Jan. 27
Pratt opens with ‘Big One’
Galleries at the Pratt Museum reopen to the public on Tuesday, Feb. 2 with a special exhibit of “The Big One: Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest,” from 5-7 p.m. The public is also invited to attend our annual meeting featuring refreshments, special speakers, board elections and volunteer recognition. Winter hours are [...]
HCOA celebrates arts’ diversity with awards
Seeking to acknowledge those outstanding individuals in the community who have given so much of themselves to the arts, Homer Council on the Arts announced winners of its 2010 awards Monday.
Arts Briefs – Jan. 20
Time to work on photo entries
The deadline for submitting your photos to the annual Shorebird Festival Amateur Photo Contest is Monday, May 3, by 6 p.m. There are three categories: Alaskan wildlife (not just shorebirds) Alaskan Scenic, and Alaskana human interest. The over all best of show entry wins $300.
Monetary prizes are awarded for [...]
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