First Friday, Juneau\u2019s monthly art gallery walk, takes place on the evening of May 5. Tlingit artwork from local weaver Lily Hope and devil\u2019s club earrings from local crafter Heather Dillon are featured this month in the premier First Friday of the cruise ship season.<\/p>\n
Events start at different times at many local businesses downtown, with most beginning at 4:30 p.m. and lasting until 7 or 8 p.m. Below is a listing of all events.<\/p>\n
Hope, a Tlingit weaver, will present her Chilkat robe, commissioned by the Portland Art Museum, at the Sealaska Heritage Institute in the Nathan Jackson Gallery. In addition to Hope\u2019s regalia work, the exhibit will include a collection of 50 masks from indigenous cultures across the state as well as the jewelry of Juneau-based Tlingit artist Renee Culp. The SHI exhibit takes place from 4:30-8 p.m.<\/p>\n
Dillon will present her innovative jewelry work at Shoefly, a shoe and clothing store at 109 Seward St., from 4-8 p.m. Dillon uses electricity to create lightning or tree-like patterns on devil\u2019s club, a thorny local plant.<\/p>\n
Other events include \u201cDecolonizing Alaska,\u201d at 4:30-7 p.m. at the Alaska State Museum and \u201cKissed by Fire\u201d an exhibit of raku ceramic work at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center at 4:30-7 p.m.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAlaska Native Masks\u201d exhibit, Tlingit weaver Lily Hope and Tlingit artist Renee Culp<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Walter Soboleff Building<\/p>\n 105 S. Seward St.<\/p>\n Reception: 4:30-8 pm<\/p>\n SHI will offer free admission to the exhibit \u201cAlaska Native Masks: Art & Ceremony\u201d in the Nathan Jackson Gallery. The exhibit features more than 50 masks from across the state; new masks have been recently added. In the lobby, Tlingit artist Renee Culp will be selling her jewelry and other handmade goods, and in the Delores Churchill Artist-in-Residence space, Tlingit weaver Lily Hope will be working on a Chilkat robe commissioned by the Portland Art Museum. Also, the SHI Store will be offering a 20 percent discount to active duty military personnel in May in recognition of the arrival of the Navy ship the USS O\u2019Kane May 13-18.<\/p>\n Kissed by Fire: Raku exhibit by David W. Riccio, Joyce Payne, Kaki Shields, Louise Kuntz-Tada, Doris Alcorn, and SueAnn Randall<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n JAHC Gallery<\/p>\n Juneau Arts & Culture Center<\/p>\n 350 Whittier St.<\/p>\n Reception: 4:30\u20137 p.m.<\/p>\n David Riccio has this to say about the exhibit:<\/p>\n Ceramics are primarily raku and sawdust-fired pieces done in the last few years. Most have not been previously shown. The show includes work that is mine and the work from a group of friends (aka the Raku Club) which has been meeting on a semi-regular basis for the last few year to jointly fire a raku kiln. The show consists of ceramics and photos of the raku process.<\/p>\n I have come to love the methods and designs of raku. The look and feel of raku ceramics is unique, and the color and surfaces one can create are very attractive and engaging for me.<\/p>\n In conjunction with the show, the Raku Club will be offering a workshop at the Canvas (for two weekends in mid-May, 2017) Interested potters (some experience in ceramics is required) can join the workshop to learn the process of raku and have the experience the firing of a raku kiln. The firing of the kiln will be available to the public to observe from a safe distance for those that are curious but don\u2019t have the time to take the workshop.<\/p>\n Featured artist: Heather Dillon<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Shoefly Alaska<\/p>\n 109 Seward Street<\/p>\n Reception: 4-8 p.m.<\/p>\n It all started with a microwave. Heather Dillon\u2019s artistic style evolved as soon as she started dabbling with combinations of wood and electricity. Over three years of fine-tuning her craft, she\u2019s found her own niche and passion within the art scene. Like electrode pulsing though wood, this wasn\u2019t a straight path to success.<\/p>\n Dillon has always loved Devil\u2019s Club and now incorporates the plant into her hand-crafted earrings. Each Devil\u2019s Club has a mood or personality that dictates the aura of each set of hand crafted earrings, according to Dillon. The eccentric, spunky, in your face kind of clubs get crafted into dynamic earring pieces. Then there are the low rider clubs, the ones that hide out and would rather not be noticed until you step on them and they jump up or nail you in the back of the arm. These ones are the smaller more subtle pieces, but once you take a closer look, the details jump out and grabs you.<\/p>\n Dillon uses electricity to create unusual lightning or tree-like patterns on the devil\u2019s club. This she does by using a microwave transformer that she has rewired. If you don\u2019t see Heather hunting the forest around Juneau, you will find her working on a number of other wood-working projects that range from pieces like her custom-made gardening and bathroom stools to custom wood photo transfers.<\/p>\n Decolonizing Alaska<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Alaska State Museum<\/p>\n 395 Whittier Street<\/p>\n Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.<\/p>\n As the world\u2019s attention shifts to the shrinking polar ice cap and the future of our planet, Alaska\u2019s place in the world has moved from the fringe to the center. Concerns about climate change and cultural survival resulting from colonization have pushed Alaska to the forefront of global conversations. Decolonizing Alaska is a multi-media visual art exhibit that explores how 30 diverse contemporary Alaskan artists grapple with these issues and present new possibilities for cultural sustainability. Artists create and express resilience and adaptation through a confluence of indigenous, global, traditional and contemporary concepts, technologies and media.<\/p>\n A panel discussion with the exhibit curator, Asia Freeman, and artists Joel Isaak, Rika Mouw, Ricky Tagaban, Michael Walsh, and Crystal Worl will follow the opening reception at 6:30 p.m. in the APK Lecture Hall. Decolonizing Alaska is sponsored by Bunnell Street Arts Center, curated by Asia Freeman and supported in part by grants from ArtWorks, The CIRI Foundation, and the Rasmuson Foundation with additional support from the exhibit venues and the Rasmuson Foundation through the Harper Arts Touring Fund, administered, under contract, by the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Isaak is offering a fish skin workshop on Saturday, May 6. More information about this exhibit is on page 5.<\/p>\n Featured artist: Carl Avery<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Juneau Dipsticks<\/p>\n 101 Egan Drive<\/p>\n Reception: 4-7 p.m.<\/p>\n Mixed media artist Carl Avery will show art.<\/p>\n Featured artist: Nell McConahey of Spiral Studio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Juneau Artists Gallery<\/p>\n 175 S. Franklin St.<\/p>\n Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.<\/p>\n Stained glass and jewelry artist Nell McConahey of Spiral Studio will be the featured artist for the month of May at the Juneau Artists Gallery. Inspired by spring and a recent trip to the gem show in Tuscon, Arizona, McConahey has created new works to show. Her new pieces will go fast.<\/p>\n After taking a metalsmithing class in college, Nell began a long relationship with creating jewelry. It\u2019s been her full-time job, along with stained and fused glass, for more than 18 years.<\/p>\n Yes, Juneau Artists Gallery will be open during the construction of Franklin Street.<\/p>\n Stuff, Stories, and Sticky Notes: Collection Objects & Community Stories<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas City Museum<\/p>\n Fourth and Main streets<\/p>\n 4:30-7 p.m.<\/p>\n For this exhibit, 11 Juneau community members selected objects from the museum\u2019s permanent collection and wrote stories, poems, and historical pieces inspired by these objects. The objects and written works will be on view in the Murray Gallery through October 28. The objects on view will be diverse, including a typewriter used by Dale DeArmond, a flight bag from Alaska Coastal Airlines, a coat from Nina Chapman\u2019s \u201cNina\u2019s Originals\u201d, and Floyd Dryden\u2019s World War I victory medals. Community members who contributed to the exhibit are William DeArmond, Puanani Maunu, James Brooks, Kim Metcalfe, Marie Darlin, Rich Ritter, Ren\u00e9e Loree, Robert Barr, Ariel Rolfe, Brenda Wright, and Kaia Henrickson. Feel like writing your own story about an object? You can! Objects from our Education Collection will also be on view with large sticky notes for visitors to add their own writing to the exhibit.<\/p>\n Special deal on Authors at Sea cruise tickets<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Hearthside Books downtown<\/p>\n 3-6 p.m.<\/p>\n Save $5 on Authors at Sea whale-watching cruise tickets, which will take place May 26. During First Friday at the downtown store only. Confirmed authors include Eowyn Ivey, Ishmael Hope, Kate Troll, Bob Fagen and Mark Kelley. Cost without discount is $65.<\/p>\n Salon Cedar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 175 S. Franklin St. (Senate Mall)<\/p>\n 5-7 p.m.<\/p>\n Salon Cedar will present some of its new products on offer.<\/p>\n Featured Artist: Chris Frary, master wood turner<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Little Bazaar<\/p>\n 1117 W. 9th St.<\/p>\n Reception: 4:30 – 7 p.m.<\/p>\n Local craftsman Chris Frary will show his collection of exquisite hand-lathed bowls shaped out of Juneau\u2019s cottonwood and alder trees. By bucking\/splitting the wood himself Frary finds the natural beauty in the grain and spends many hours turning, sanding, and finishing each bowl with natural tung oil. He has even been known to grow his own trees for his craft. Each piece is food-safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First Friday, Juneau\u2019s monthly art gallery walk, takes place on the evening of May 5. Tlingit artwork from local weaver Lily Hope and devil\u2019s club earrings from local crafter Heather Dillon are featured this month in the premier First Friday of the cruise ship season. 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