{"id":33501,"date":"2015-12-02T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/reality-tv-star-seeks-permit-for-art-retreat-at-fox-river\/"},"modified":"2015-12-02T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T17:04:25","slug":"reality-tv-star-seeks-permit-for-art-retreat-at-fox-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/reality-tv-star-seeks-permit-for-art-retreat-at-fox-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV star seeks permit for art retreat at Fox River"},"content":{"rendered":"

KENAI<\/strong> \u2014 Star of the Discovery channel reality show \u201cAlaska: The Last Frontier\u201d Atz Kilcher is looking to build up a site at Fox River where young people can gather to work on art projects.<\/p>\n

The Peninsula Clarion reported Kilcher, who is a homesteader near Homer, applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources for permission to construct several permanent buildings near the Old Believer Russian Orthodox village Kachemak Selo.<\/p>\n

The proposed campground would include a two-story barn, cabin, bunkhouse, workshop and outhouse. Camp participants would be there for several days working on singing, poetry, painting and other art forms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dream as it\u2019s unfolding, it could involve kids, youths, parents and their kids \u2014 I see it more as a writing, art retreat,\u201d Kilcher said. \u201cI could envision letting existing organizations use my facility, turning kids onto the wilderness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plans for the site are still being developed. But Kilcher said he hopes the Fox River area will inspire children to connect more with their art.<\/p>\n

The Fox River is a place that Kilcher holds dear. His father, Yule Kilcher, helped found the Fox River Cattlemen\u2019s Association, which has had a grazing lease there for 60 years, he said. Much of his art \u2014 baskets, wood carvings and other works \u2014 incorporates reeds, bones and stones from the head of Kachemak Bay and throughout the river area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fox River valley for me has been for me a fantasyland, a retreat,\u201d Kilcher said. \u201cI call it my sanctuary. The theme of healing, the theme of getting in touch with your higher self, of being creative, of being at your best, those kind of things are what I experienced when I was up there. It still has that magic for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kilcher said being on the Discovery TV show has given him the platform to connect to a broader audience around his homestead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this Discovery chapter in my life, they do some filming of me up there, I\u2019ve put it all in perspective now and I\u2019ve just got to go \u2018Wow, I\u2019ve been up there most of my life. Now I\u2019m sharing it with a lot of people via television,\u2019\u201d Kilcher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when I think about what gives me pleasure, what gives people pleasure, whatever we do to feel a thrill, to feel connected, to feel alive, (the Fox River valley) is where it\u2019s always been at for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Information from: (Kenai, Alaska) Peninsula Clarion, http:\/\/www.peninsulaclarion.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KENAI \u2014 Star of the Discovery channel reality show \u201cAlaska: The Last Frontier\u201d Atz Kilcher is looking to build up a site at Fox River where young people can gather to work on art projects. The Peninsula Clarion reported Kilcher, who is a homesteader near Homer, applied to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33501"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}