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Artist Talks @ Bunnell
by bunnellarts
Tune in to hear selected artists talks each month, at Bunnell Street Arts Center.
Episodes
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October 2026, First Friday w/ Kalina Wińska
“My works examine diverse approaches to observing weather through direct human perception and indirect methods, like satellite imagery. This process highlights humanity’s complex relationship with climate change, weather modification, and our urge to control natural phenomena. My paintings on…
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October 2026, First Friday w/ Amy Meissner
“My studio practice combines traditional handwork, found objects, and abandoned or valueless textiles to reference literal, physical, and emotional labor. My social practice fosters repair culture by teaching the craft of clothing and textile repair as an act of prolonging, care, and…
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September 2026, Carla Klinker
“This body of work marks an intentional shift toward art-making that begins with love and seeks to illuminate invisible threads of connection. Luminous Threads explores the delicate balance between overwhelming complexity and profound connection. The centrality of light provides an organizing...
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August 2026, First Friday with Steven Gordon
“When I’m mindfully moving through nature my senses are alive to color, pattern, shapes, movement, flow, and contrasts. Being in nature while fully present to the experience is a spiritual and life giving experience for me. I feel more deeply connected to myself and to God….My style of painting...
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July 2026, First Friday w/ Rika Mouw
“Salmon are iconic. They are sacred. They are keystone beings. Salmon are the thread that stitches together land and ocean, forests, wetlands and rivers of clean cold water, whales, bears, marine mammals, birds and other fish, peoples and cultures, customs and traditions, identity, and ways of...
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July 2026, First Friday w/ Linda Infante Lyons
“Alutiiq cosmology is built on the belief that all things, living and inanimate are sentient and that people are equal members of a system that is built on reciprocity and kinship. My ancestors understood there is but a thin veil between the natural world and the spiritual world and deeply valued...
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June, 2026, First Friday w/ Leslie M. Robertson
Leslie M. Robertson – “My altered books are rooted in mixed media and experimentation, shaped by my ongoing relationship with nature and the materials themselves. I collect found objects from the environment, recycling bins, and pieces of my own past art work. Each piece carries traces of time,...
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June, 2026, First Friday w/ Kaitlin Hiller
Katelin Hiller – “I make drawings that regard the environment as a living shrine. They are made from mixed materials applied in many layers onto boards from white spruce trees that grew near where I live. The trees had a life before I made drawings on them, they contributed to the atmosphere and...
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June, 2026, First Friday w/ Deb Lowney
Debra Lowney – “I am a self taught wood sculptor who strives to create innovative art that inspires, intrigues, and challenges the viewer. I’m drawn to landscapes with a focus on drawing attention to the environmental changes taking place and hopefully tempt the viewer to contemplate this change....
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May, 2026 First Friday w/ Tina Konec
“For more than a decade, drawing has been central to my artistic practice. Working with pencil and black ink, I build dense structures of lines that gradually form fragments of coniferous branches. The process itself is essential to my work and often takes on a meditative quality, unfolding…
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May, 2026 First Friday w/ Oceana Wills
This body of work takes place locally in the landscapes of the Kachemak Bay area, among the plants and animals we share space with. It contains many of the ideas and themes I continue to explore in my art: Relationships to nature, community, and self, appreciation of the ordinary and the beauty...
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April, 2026 First Friday w/ Tamara Burgh
“I discovered the book “Alaskan Igloo Tales” (c. 1974, illustrations by G. Agupuk) years ago while working in Nome, AK’s Indian Education Art and Culture Program. At that time, the stories in this book felt strange and distant from modern Native culture and experience. My self-studies in myth,...
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March 2026, First Friday w/ Austin Parkhill
Just Listen “I’ve come to believe in the river, where we are most aligned with flow. Responding to each turn and turbulence with a measure of calm. It requires space for attention. It requires listening. This selection of works is the result of listening. Of guided intuition. The works have...
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February 2026, First Friday w/ xochiyollotl
“I remember the first summer I noticed the trees shriveling, turning grey, eaten from the inside out. The air was hot and the rain never came. The swing tree and the joy it brought, lives now only in my mind. more.
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December 2025, First Friday w/ Tamara Wilson
An installation and studio artist from Fairbanks, Tamara Wilson exhibits “Street Lamp” for the month of December at Bunnell Street Arts Center. The exhibit opens on first Friday, December 5th from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm. Artist Statement: “Creatures created from a place of wonder…
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November 2025, First Friday - 10 x 10 Members Exhibit
This year’s exhibit represents 137 works by 68 artist members from Alaska and beyond. Professional development through annual exhibition opportunities is heart-centered Mission work. Thank you to the new and renewing artist members of this year! more
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October 2025, First Friday w/ Laine Rinehart
“As I engage with the variety of communities across Alaska through my craft as a weaver I hope to share this knowledge, joy and passion through a series of weaving demonstrations, speaking engagements as well as weaving workshops. It’s my hope.. to engage with the community by sharing my art and...
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October 2025, First Friday w/ Ethan Kayaaní Lauesen
“Raven Stole the Stars, Raven Stole My Heart is a collection of prints that I have created through my process of self reflection and growth. I am Denaakk’e Koyukon Athabaskan and Lingít, more specifically Raven/ Dog Salmon clan or sukteeneidí. My show title reflects a well known Tlingit story…
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September 2025, First Friday w/ Lynn Larsen
“Mountains of bare rock, like those on the north side of the Brooks Range, interest me, since devoid of trees, the mountains show their geological journey. In my paintings I always have tried to be true to the land’s geological story, showing the layers and shapes of rocks as they exist today.…
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September 2025, First Friday w/ Jenny Nakao
“My work embodies playfulness, communicating meaning through perspective and relationships. Inspired by interconnected environments and organisms, my pieces reveal stories through interaction—a decoration under a handle, inside a vessel, or clues on the bottom. My functional vessels encourage…
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August 2025, First Friday w/ Steven Godfrey
“There are many things that I am inspired by: old New England tobacco barns, the color of honey, glacial ice, Sung Dynasty pottery, Native Alaskan ivory bird carvings, children’s book illustrators such as Harrison Cady, Tasha Tudor and Jerry Pinkney, Danish furniture, cooking, dodo birds…
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August 2025, First Friday w/ Sara Tabbert
“In the past year, I have moved between two vastly different environments – a woodworking fellowship in urban Philadelphia and my home studio outside of Fairbanks – and been imprinted with their unique visual energies and abundant sound. Recent pieces convey the shaking of elevated trains, the…
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July 2025, First Friday w/ Jeff Szarzi
“My pottery is made to be used and enjoyed in the home, and each piece is deeply inspired by the natural world. My love for nature began in my adolescence, working at a local Michigan nature preserve—a formative experience that continues to shape my creative vision. To this day, I spend countless...
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July 2025, First Friday w/ Gail Priday
"My paintings reflect the tenacity of an Alaskan summer, autumn’s brilliant demise, winter’s seemingly impossible unraveling, and the amazements of spring. This body of work emphasizes the endless details, changing seasons, and everyday beauty here in the North.” more.
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June 2025, First Friday w/ Antoinette Walker
“My creativity and life stories are expressed with coastal marine themes that capture the wild beauty of my home, Alaska. Encaustic is my material of choice – a blend of beeswax, damar crystals and pigment – often using charts, scraps of paper and found objects that are embedded in the wax…
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June 2025, First Friday w/ Carla Potter
“Every time I pick up a limpet shell I marvel at its compact form with its subtle shifting curves and endless variety of striations and ribs. Their color, pattern and textures layered in an inimitable way that strains my greedy eyes. I love to pinch them out of clay and this activity brings me...
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May 2025, The Inner Garden Book Release
A guided conversation with Megan Murphy and collaborators Ilarion (Kuuyux) Merculieff and Brianna Lee, for the book release of The Inner Garden. About the book: The Inner Garden is a channeled guidebook and vividly-illustrated card deck that offers a personalized map to learn more about yourself...
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May 2025, First Friday w/ Brianna Lee
"When I received the invitation from Megan Murphy to collaborate on creating the images for this book, "The Inner Garden," I was both honored and nervous to accept the offer. As a working mother, artmaking had become less and less a priority in my life. Simultaneously, I began to feel like I was...
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April 2025, First Friday w/ Jenny Irene, "On this sand (together)"
“The space we knew as our subsistence camp near Nome, Alaska, has been altered by climate change and was washed away by Typhoon Merbok. This work connects past, present, and future Inupiat and records our stories from fish camp, recording what climate change hasn’t erased – our ties to each other...
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March 2025, First Friday w/ Sean Derry
Sean Derry spent the past two summers on the southside of Kachemak Bay carefully deconstructing a homesteading cabin dating from Alaska’s statehood. He has transformed the artifacts and materials from the cabin into a new collection of artworks. Sean hopes the project promotes a form of migration...
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February 2025, First Friday w/ Kim McNett
Peat is a substance of slow growth and deep time. The soggy layers of rich soil hold thousands of years of frog songs, moose tracks and the subtle work of sedge and moss that draw carbon from the air and lay it down in blankets of spongy earth. On behalf of the wild nature that flourishes in…
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December 2024, First Friday w/ Abigail Kokai
From the “Panda Mick’s” universe, we follow the new adventures of the recent jackpot lottery winner, 97-year old Aelon Funk, the self-proclaimed “billionaire space boi.” Aelon is breaking in his “new-to-him” spaceship while he embarks into outer space, hoping to find the fountain of youth. The...
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November 2024, First Friday, 10 x 10 Exhibit
“In Memory of…” offers space for reflection and to honor the people, places and experiences that shape us. The theme invites expression of grief and loss, as well as of joy and love. Variations and interpretations might include retablos, paintings, altars, constructions, mementos mori, or other...
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October 2024, First Friday w/ George Gianakopoulos
“Being creative is extremely important to me. It’s my passion, my life’s work and how I contribute to my community. The images, subjects and narratives in my art stitch together my experiences of family, music, pottery, agriculture and love as a stay-at-home father of two and a part-time farmer.…
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“Tune in: Homer” Audio Soundscape by Andrew O’Connor
Tune In: Homer” is an audio soundscape featuring voices of people and place in Homer created by sound artist Andrew O’Connor, from Toronto, Canada. O’Connor created this audio installation from soundscapes and interviews he captured while artist-in-residence at Bunnell Street Arts Center during…
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Septemebr 2024, First Friday Artist Talk w/ Michael Walsh & Asia Freeman
“Clouds mediate between earth and atmosphere, imagination and make-believe. We study clouds to gauge the amount and distribution of moisture, the atmospheric stability present at a given place and time, the type of convection that is occurring, or what changes in the weather are coming. more...
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August, 2024, First Friday w/ Steve Gordon
“When I’m mindfully moving through nature my senses are alive to color, pattern, shapes, movement, flow, and contrasts. Being in nature while fully present to the experience is a spiritual and life giving experience for me. I feel more deeply connected to myself and to God….My style of painting...
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July 5th, 2024, First Friday: Our Way of Living
“In Alaska we are surrounded by abundance. For over ten thousand years, Indigenous people have inhabited these lands, caring for the wild resources that surround us so that they in turn will sustain our communities. Knowing how to make use of local resources was and is a way of surviving and…
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June 7, 2024, First Friday w/Bonilyn Parker
“I believe in the importance of hand-made objects in an increasingly disposable world. Contemporary issues associated with waste, commercial manufacturing and consequential practices such as repurposing, recycling, and the DIY movement influence my work. Embellished with the suggestion of…
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June 7, 2024, First Friday w/ Kathy Smith
In the process of creating this show, my efforts and explorations with composition on the heated plate have led me to variations in technique, including the addition of hand-carved printing blocks inspired by a recent trip to Ireland. My family roots are deeply embedded in the history of the...
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May 3, 2024, First Friday w/ Margo Klass
Wayfinding is a collection of hand-crafted books and box constructions which look both backward and forward in expressions of grief, hope, and gratitude. They all reflect a personal interaction with materials – the beauty of tanned salmon skin, a perfectly formed rock found on a beach walk, a...
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May 3, 2024, First Friday w/ Ree Nancarrow
“This body of work draws inspiration from changes I have seen take place over many years living in Alaska. Many of them are visible and accelerated due to global warming, which deeply concerns me. I have been actively involved with the In Time of Change program for the past 12 years, studying…
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April 12, Artist in Residence talk w/ Andrew O'Connor
“My aim is to create a work for multiple low watt FM transmitters set up along the streets of Homer. My time will be spent engaging the local community in interviews and recording the soundscapes of the city at all times of the day and night..." more
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April 5th, First Friday with Diane Melms
”Honoring tradition and seeking innovation, I strive to push the quilt form into new territory. With a firm foundation in traditional textiles, and an art and design background, I am inspired to use my technical skills and creative drive to invent new ways to express my ideas in cloth. In many...
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March 1, First Friday with Kendra Harvey
Ceramicist Kendra Harvey exhibits at Bunnell Street Arts Center for the month of March. The exhibit opens on Friday, March 1, 2024 from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm. Harvey will also host two plate painting workshops for Bunnell’s 30th Annual Plate Project. “Storytelling is the foundation of…
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February 2, 2024 First Friday with Megan DeCino
" I make two kinds of art: for myself, and for other people. The art I make for myself — paintings and mixed media pieces — come from a place of uneasiness and isolation. I dwell on worst case scenarios: violent breakups, car crashes, bloody accidents. Sometimes the lonely characters I create are...
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December 3rd, 2023 First Friday with Carol Lambert
“Perseverance is an exhibition of multicolor intaglio etchings and other works on paper by Carol Lambert. Lambert’s images touch on common experiences, including birth, death, trust, fear, safety, threat, and conditions on planet Earth. Both cartooning and classical drawing inform her whimsical...
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November 3,2023 First Friday Artist Talk with Rafael de la Uz
Artist Statement: “My photography focuses on telling stories, so my goal is to build a narrative from a group of images, organized in a specific order instead of aiming for visual excellence in one single image. An isolated photograph has a certain aesthetic value, but a set of photos uses the...
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October 6th, 2023, First Friday with Lydia Moyer
Bunnell Street Arts Center welcomes multidisciplinary artist, Lydia Moyer from September 23rd – October 22rd as artist in residence. Moyer will exhibit work, share an artist talk, and offer community workshops throughout the month of October at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Moyer says, “My work is…
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September 8th, Second Friday - 10 x 10 Member’s Exhibit
“Taking Care” exhibit statement: How do artists express care for self, community, other life forms and the land? How do artists picture resilience, innovation, and healing? As first responders, artists lead as healers through their creations. In times of tension, crisis or distress, artists…
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