Weekly Calendar of Upcoming Events and Performances
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In the Company of Trees- Marilyn Lee
Expressive works by Artist Marilyn Lee featuring the unique shapes, textures, and “personalities” of trees she has studied in our surrounding Tongass Rainforest.
Rainy Day Quilt Guild Monthly Meeting
This meeting is the Rainy Day Quilt guild is a monthly meeting. The group meets in the basement room of the church beginning at 6:30pm on the 4th Tuesday of the month.
KAAHC Annual Meeting Online at Facebook Live!!!!
Our annual meeting will be shown on Facebook Live which allows us to not have people in the Gallery but does give general access to the meeting. Please join the Board of Directors and Staff of the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council for the Annual Meeting. We will celebrate the successes and growth from 2019 and acknowledge our shortcomings with an eye toward improvements!! We will review our fiscal stability, our programs, and our strategic goals.
Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Board of Directors Meeting
Monthly Board of Directors Meeting
Sea Strummers Ukulele Group
The Sea Strummers is a ukulele group that meets once a week. They welcome new people/musicians.
Cancelled! Museum Midday
This event has been CANCELLED! Chuck Slagle Aviation in Ketchikan
Jurried Youth Art Exhibit SeaAlaska Heritage
Calling all youth for NorthWestCoast Art
Preparations for Celebration and the Youth Art Exhibit are underway! Sealaska Heritage are seeking applicants for their youth exhibit featuring NWC art made by students within the last two years. Please encourage students to apply and create NWC art this semester.
The deadline to apply is March 27th. The deadline for the finished artwork is April 13th.
If you would like more information regarding this program, please contact jen.laroe@sealaska.com or (907) 586-9173 OR Selina Finley at Selina.finley@sealaska.com or (907)586-9162.
Alaska Hummingbird Juried Art Show Deadline
Entry Deadline: Friday, March 27, 2020, 5:00pm
Mailed entries must include return postage.
Submit your work to:
Southeast Alaska Discovery Center
50 Main St. Ketchikan, Ak 99901
C/O Hummingbird Festival
POSTPONED!!! AU Adult Batik Class with Loren McCue
!!!This class has been tentatively rescheduled for June 27th and 28th!!!
This Double-up Batik class is a special two-day class, Friday 7:00 - 9:00 pm and 7:00 - 9:00 pm Saturday! Batik is a method of dyeing fabric by applying hot wax to areas to be left undyed. You will learn the techniques of applying the hot wax and dying your own fabric. Muslin pieces are provided, but feel free to bring your own 100% cotton fabric to dye as time permits.
POSTPONED!!!! Story telling Workshop with Jack Finnegan
Participants of the 2020 Stories at Latitude *56 "Home" a production of the KAAHC, may attend one or both of two workshops offered at the Main Street Gallery, dates TBA. There is no cost to participate.
These workshops are designed to help participants develop, refine, or discover their own best methods for telling their own (true) tales. It is intended that these stories will be told extemporaneously, and neither read nor recited: this is a call for oral storytelling. If interested please e-mail Jack!
CANCELED!! smART Class with Loren McCue
This KAAHC Program has been Canceled! Studies in Macro! Instructor Loren McCue for ages 1st through 6th. Take a closer look at the still life around you. Students explore multiple different mediums while studying still-life up close and personal. Get into the details. Six Saturday classes culminate in an art reception at Loren's studio, The Artery during the Celebration of the Sea Art Walk, May 1st.
Canceled smART Class with Loren McCue
This KAAHC program of Spring Saturday Morning Art Classes has been CANCELED!!! Studies in Macro! Instructor Loren McCue for ages 7th through 12th. Take a closer look at the still life around you. Students explore multiple different mediums while studying still-life up close and personal. Get into the details. Six Saturday classes culminate in an art reception at Loren's studio, The Artery during the Celebration of the Sea Art Walk, May 1st.
POSTPONED AU Adult Batik Class with Loren McCue
This class has been tentatively postponed until June 26th and 27th. This Double-up Batik class is a special two-day class, Friday 7:00 - 9:00 pm and 7:00 - 9:00 pm Saturday! Batik is a method of dyeing fabric by applying hot wax to areas to be left undyed. You will learn the techniques of applying the hot wax and dying your own fabric. Muslin pieces are provided, but feel free to bring your own 100% cotton fabric to dye as time permits.
Image Credits
TOP ROW (L-R)
Stephen Jackson, Seward Shame Pole, Saxman, Alaska, 2017 - Ketchikan Community Concert Band, image credit Felix Wong - Evy Posey, "Cosmic Wyvern", Mixed UP the 35th Annual Wearable Art Show, 2021 – Ricardo Búrquez, "My World", 2016 - Evon Zerbetz & Rich Stage, "A Trip to the Library", 2012 - Terry Pyles, "Yeltatzie Salmon", 2015
BOTTOM ROW (L-R)
Kathy Flora, Marcie Pungowiyi, New Path Dancers, "Thunder”, ShapeShift the 26th Annual Wearable Art Show, 2012, image credit Ernie Meloche - Rhonda Green, Tongass Historical Museum entry gate, 2021 - Ketchikan Theatre Ballet, Spring Gala "The Four Seasons" May 2021 - Nathan Jackson, "New Thundering Wings", 2016 – First City Players, "39 Steps", Jack Finnegan, 2021, image credit Jeff Fitzwater - Jackie Keizer "Sailing Off Into A Tequila Sunrise", Mixed UP the 35th Annual Wearable Art, image credit Jeanette Sweetman 2021 - Shawna Hofmann, Andiamo Dance Company, image credit Jeanette Sweetman, 2021- Ricardo Búrquez, “Pipe Junction” 2021 - Isreal Shotridge, Chief Johnson's Totem Pole, Ketchikan, AK. 1955

