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Bunnell gets $150,000 grant for Old Town art project

ArtPlace America has awarded Bunnell Street Arts Center a $150,000 grant for Old Town AIR, an artist in…

Emily Johnson and Aretha Aoki perform a dance for “Niicugni,” a multimedia art, music, video, storytelling and choreography installation showing Friday and Saturday at Pier One Theatre on the Homer Spit.-Photo provided

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Creating home wherever you are

How do you find a home when you find yourself away from the land you’ve grown up in?For…

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Homer artists receive Rasmuson grants

Four Homer artists have received Rasmuson Foundation project grants or fellowships, the foundation announced on Wednesday. Awarded grants…

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Salvage Art exhibit is at River Festival in June

ReGroup seeks artists to submit art made from trash for its  Salvage Art Exhibit at the Kenai River…

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Facing the Elements seeks outdoor art work

The Pratt Museum has issued a call for art for its annual Facing the Elements outdoor show. First…

Jimmy Gao performs.-Photo provided

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Gao wins piano competition

A Homer 7th grader, Jimmy Gao, won first prize in the Intermediate II Division at the Alaska Piano…

Adam Ottavi, a recent artist in residence at Bunnell Street Arts Center, sold his photograph, “Burnt Alaska,” to the Alaska State Museum.-Photo provided

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Homer arts organization gets $265,000 Rasmuson grant

One of Homer’s more obscure art organizations doesn’t have an office, doesn’t have a gallery and only a…

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‘Giulio Cesare’ is last opera of the season

Have you ever wondered how Caesar and Cleopatra got hooked up? Find out in David McVicar’s production of…

Randy Olson stands in front of a slide illustrating Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Hero’s Journey at a talk April 17.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Biologist turned filmmaker schools other scientists on art of storytelling

For scientists to connect to citizens, it’s as easy as A-B-T. On April 17 at the Kenai Peninsula…

Mary Bee Kaufman did the 21st annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival poster, above, also used on this year’s T-shirt design. The painting shows several red knot shorebirds and illustrates this year’s theme, “From Baja to Beaufort: Every Wingbeat Counts!”-Illustration provided

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Namesake mountain drew shorebird artist to Alaska

The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival featured artists have much in common in their choice of subject — shorebirds,…

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The Arts In Brief

Connections grad holds recital Homer graduating senior Lydia Arndt, who attends the Kenai Peninsula Borough Connections home school…

Student art from the Flex School show, opening May 10 at the school.-Photo Provided

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First Friday Events

Art Shop Gallery 207 W. Pioneer Ave. New Work by Nancy Wise 5-7 p.m., First Friday Reception New…

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Wildlife art shows preview shorebird festival

As hundreds of geese, dozens of cranes and a few shorebirds descended on Homer last weekend, and with…