{"id":7575,"date":"2016-02-03T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-arts-confluence-presents-keeping-the-tradition-on-first-friday-in-haines\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:00:16","slug":"alaska-arts-confluence-presents-keeping-the-tradition-on-first-friday-in-haines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/alaska-arts-confluence-presents-keeping-the-tradition-on-first-friday-in-haines\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Arts Confluence presents “Keeping the Tradition” on First Friday in Haines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haines<\/strong> \u2014 Get a sneak peak of new work by artist Donna Catotti at the Alaska Arts Confluence\u2019s Main Street office from 5 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 5. The show, part of the Confluence\u2019s First Friday series, will preview 10 portrait, still life and landscape pieces Catotti has created for a September opening at the Juneau Arts and Humanities Gallery.<\/p>\n

Anchoring the show is \u201cKeeping the Tradition from Afar,\u201d a 40-by-20-inch oil portrait of former resident Carla Earnest dressed in her traditional Phillipine attire. Another piece, \u201cTlingit Closet Regalia at Alaska Indian Arts,\u201d features a raven headdress, rattle and drum with killer whales.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding at my easel, I work to satisfy only myself; not an easy task,\u201d Catotti said. \u201cIn each of my figurative works, I hope to portray some depth of human character and emotion that transcends the individual portrayed, and helps us all become more understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gene Kennedy\u2019s four-foot metal sculpture \u201cWeather Gal\u201d will also make its public debut at First Friday. Created at the request of Cottage Arts owner Nelle Greene for display and sale at her Fort Seward shop, Kennedy\u2019s sculpture is informative as well as decorative: She measures the temperature, wind direction, and rainfall. The steampunk sculpture\u2019s body is made from a Paloma water heater, which Kennedy saw overturned in his shop one day. \u201cShe just looked very feminine and humanoid,\u201d he said. The rest of \u201cWeather Gal\u201d is comprised of miscelleneous plumbing parts, an old flag pole, a teapot, a canoe paddle and rolling wheels from an old set of Haines School bleachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to use things I just have on-hand,\u201d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

Other events slated for the Feb. 5 First Friday celebration include Hannah Bochart\u2019s \u201cDeath, Dreams, and Dill Pickles\u201d storyboard assemblage art collages on display at Skipping Stones Studios, and Kerry Cohen\u2019s \u201cWINTER Reflections in Clay\u201d ceramic exhibit opening as part of the Sheldon Museum\u2019s Six Week Spotlight series. Both events run from 5 to 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Haines began celebrating First Friday in February 2015, with local businesses and organizations holding arts and cultural events on the first Friday of each month, creating an Art Walk in downtown Haines that now extends from Jones Point to Historic Fort William H. Seward.<\/p>\n

AAC continues to accept proposals for both rotating and semi-permanent art installations in Art on Main Street storefront, to adorn the windows, wall space, and some floor space. The request for proposal application is available to download at www.alaskaartsconfluence.org.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact Carol Tuynman at 303-0222 or visit the Alaska Arts at www.alaskaartsconfluence.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Haines \u2014 Get a sneak peak of new work by artist Donna Catotti at the Alaska Arts Confluence\u2019s Main Street office from 5 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 5. The show, part of the Confluence\u2019s First Friday series, will preview 10 portrait, still life and landscape pieces Catotti has created for a September opening at […]<\/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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","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=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}