Ketchikan area Artists and Creatives have been inspiring the communities of this area since the beginning. Whether it is beautifully engineered and created halibut hooks, or the magnificent totem poles of the area, to the stories, poetry and drawings for the inception of the Alaska Magazine, to the creation and evolution of Wearable Art in Alaska artists continue to make the world we live in meaningful and joyful.
This page is still a work in progress and will soon contain an Artist Directory of the area artists, and a catalogue of Public Art in the Ketchikan area, plus artists' resources.
Below are the Calls to Artists listed in deadline order. Local and Regional Calls to Artists are posted as we find them. If you know of a Call that is not listed on this page, please e-mail details to info@ketchikanarts.org we would love to include it here as a resource to artists!
KRBD invites artists to submit an original design for our 50th Birthday Party! On May 23, 2026, we will celebrate 50 years of community radio in Southern Southeast Alaska with Live Day performances and an evening dance party at the Ted Ferry Civic Center. The selected design will be featured in event publicity and printed on commemorative merchandise.
Guidelines
· All mediums are accepted. Submit physical artwork or digital files that can be reproduced clearly on shirts and print materials.
· Design must be new and not shown previously. No prior public display or commercial use.
· Required text: “KRBD Community Radio,” “2026,” “50 years,” and “Ketchikan, Alaska.”
· Original work only. No AI-generated designs, stock elements, or third-party trademarks.
· Camera-ready: Provide clean linework and high contrast so the design prints well on shirts and posters.
· Digital format: Preferred scalable vector file (EPS or PDF). High-resolution JPG is acceptable.
· Contact info required: Include your name, mailing address, phone, and email with your submission.
How to Submit
Drop off physical artwork:
· KRBD, 1101 Copper Ridge Lane, Ketchikan, AK 99901
· Email digital submissions: linda@krbd.org
· Deadline: Monday, December 10, 2025, 5:00 p.m. AKST.
Selection and Prize
· Selection committee: A diverse committee of community members will review all eligible entries and select one design.
· Prize: $500 honorarium for the chosen design, plus KRBD merch and bragging rights.
Rights and Credits
· Copyright: KRBD will hold the copyright to the winning design.
· Credit: The artist will be credited on KRBD channels and event materials where feasible.
Artwork Return
Unselected physical artwork will be available for pick-up at KRBD after the selection is announced. Please do not send irreplaceable originals by mail.
$150 grants available for travel or materials. These grants are reimbursable - save your receipts!!!
Whether it's the warm colors of falling leaves, or the cool colors of snow and ice, young artists will use the pallettes of the outdoors from fall into winter. Our exploration of the seasonal color wheel will include paint, collage and craft! The first classes will be taught by Mrs. Darby, with Mr. Abel planning on teaching later ones!
Woo Hoo!!!!
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is calling on Northwest Coast Native artists to submit design proposals for Celebration 2026, a major dance-and-culture festival held biennially in Juneau since 1982.
The theme of Celebration 2026 is Enduring Strength. The winning artist will create a piece that best interprets or conceptualizes the idea of enduring strength, which will serve as the visual symbol for the event and appear on Celebration materials. The artist will receive $1,000.
Artists must submit a sketch and a written description of how their piece reflects the theme. The sketch does not need to be a finished product but must be clear enough for reviewers to interpret the concept. The final design must have no more than seven colors or inks to ensure it reproduces optimally as a graphic.
Submissions are due Jan. 12, 2026. Artists retain copyright to their work, while SHI will receive a full license to use the image in perpetuity. The winning artist will be credited in the Celebration program, which will include an article about the illustrator.
The Main Street Gallery, a program of the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council is a nonprofit, year-round fine art exhibition space, providing opportunities the experience the arts and explore the humanities. The Gallery will host 11 exhibitions from September through August, displaying a wide variety of mediums in Solo, Group, Invitational, Curated, and Open Call exhibits from local and national artists and curators.
Prizes for adults and youth participants.
The Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council has been producing the Blueberry Arts Festival since 1975! Since that time we have supported artists as they developed their work, highlighted many, many bands, heard thousands of poems, cleaned up so many gallons of slug slime, made a gazillion blueberry pies, seen sooooo many pets and dolls, hung extraordinary art, added space for more artists, added food booths, invited other nonprofits to showcase their organizations, added booths to the Methodist Church parking lot, added booths to Main Street, seen some pretty amazing handmade, humanpowered Blueberry boats!, added booths to the City parking lot....moved to Mission, dock and Main streets.
We are able to place a little over 160 booths, and estimate at least 8000 attend the 3-day Festival.
Please join us! You won't be disappointed.
ARTISTS - applications to participate in the Blueberry Arts Festival are always opened during the Celebration of the Sea Art Walk, the first Friday of May.
