Nina Elder, February 2021 artist in residence at Bunnell Street Arts Center, discusses her fascination with fraying materials, lines, tension, release and mending with artist Billy Joe Miller. Both will share images and discuss their work. Elder has been collecting…
Bunnell Street Arts Center is situated within the sovereign tribal boundaries of Ninilchik Village Tribe, stretching from Elanaaq (Homer Spit in the Suge’stun language) across Tikahtnu (Cook Inlet, Dena’ina), and from T’ch’anen (Caribou Hills, Dena’ina) to north of Niqnalchint (Ninilchik).…
Artist Holly Mititquq Nordlum speaks about cultural resistance and revitalization through her present projects including public art, acknowledgment through art, film and traditional tattoos. Holly received a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Graphic Design and Photography from the University…
This conversation is with owner/curator Simonetta Mignano of Bivy, Anchorage artspace and bookstore as she speaks with Hollis Mickey, Susan Share and Ben Huff about their art and the mission of this bookstore and home of The School of Nonfunctional…
During this residency David developed a mixed media show that further develops Dusty Funk and the lexicon of Afrofuturism. David says, "I maintain an active scholarly engagement. Dusty Funk is a series of mixed media Art Experiences that include 3…
How do artists and writers share truthful stories about fictions staged in Alaska? American physician and explorer, Frederick Cook claimed to have discovered the North Pole in 1908. But who was “discovered" and what was suppressed in this story? What…
Reimagining the Arctic and Alternative histories of Alaska. Nathan Shafer discusses Dirigibles of Denali, an augmented reality app/interactive print project that reimagines three domed cities that were planned, but never built in Alaska: Seward's Success, Denali City and Arctic Town.…
Gail Priday Statement: My paintings of the Alaskan landscape represent the quiet unpretentious beauty of a land revered for its grandeur. Rather than portraying grand vistas and dramatic scenery, the subject matter I choose to represent is most often the…
Emily's residency will create a multi-media puppetry performance around the concept of “lost-ness.” She writes: "In an age of climate instability and rising sea level much is slowly being lost to time alongside rising anxiety on our part as humans…
Sara Tabbert - Signs of Life Certainly I am but one of many artists whose lives were completely rearranged by the ongoing pandemic. Of all the things that were supposed to happen in the last 12 months, this exhibit at…