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The Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference is held at Kachemak Bay Campus starting on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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Writing in a wounded world

2024 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference grapples with the purpose of writing about wonder in a fractured world

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‘Making friends through taiko drumming’

Tomodachi Daiko held three taiko performances on Saturday, May 4 as part of sister city celebrations

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Taiko drumming comes to Homer

Kachemak Bay Campus hosted a drum-building workshop as part of Homer’s sister city celebrations

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Patty Lekanoff-Gregory demonstrates how to form a hat with a frame and clamps in the lab at Islands and Oceans.

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Unalaska artist gives traditional bentwood hat-making workshop

Unangax bentwood hat maker Patty Lekanoff-Gregory from Unalaska visited Homer this week to provide an instruction course in…

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New year, new art walk

February First Friday introduces fresh exhibits

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The Ptarmigan Arts Gallery is photographed in June 2023.

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Looking forward, looking back

Homer’s art galleries reflect on this year and look to the year to come

The Pratt Museum makes a call for local stories to include in January’s participatory exhibit.

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Pratt Museum accepting local stories for January exhibit, ‘Our Stories, Our Place’

Homer’s Pratt Museum is opening the new year with their “Our Stories, Our Place” exhibit. Typically in the…

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A work by Amber Webb, current artist in residence at Bunnell Street Arts, shows the role symbols play in art.

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Dillingham artist shares pictorial storytelling, symbols and oral history

Visiting artist Amber Webb started her artist in residence with Bunnell Street Arts Center on Oct. 22. The…

Daisy Walker (left) and her friend Leah Dunn paint a visiting musician's guitar case during the 2023 Solstice Festival on the Spit in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Christina Whiting

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Homer youth finds niche painting custom designs

The Homer born-and-raised youth has been drawing since she was very young and this summer decided to turn…

Chelsea Carpenter sells her macraweave creations at the 2022 Nutcracker Faire at Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. Photo provided by Chelsea Carpenter

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A good life is like a weaving

Local woman finds joy in creating wall hangings using knotted rope and colorful yarns and silk

A community member places a message on the 2022 Burning Basket, “Breathe,” in Homer, Alaska. Photo by Christina Whiting

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Homer Burning Basket celebrates 20 years

After participating in an interactive and impermanent art event in California in 2004, Homer artist Mavis Muller was…

The poster for the Alaska World Arts Festival.

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Alaska World Arts Festival kicks off next weekend

The event will celebrate of all types of art, in many venues and performances space in the community

"Kerlingarfjoll, Iceland," a photograph by Jason Kim depicting the Highlands of Iceland in 2017 with geothermal hotsprings meeting snowcapped mountains, is part of Kim's "Road to Homer" exhibit on display at Homer Council on the Arts through August. Photo provided by Jason Kim

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A long and winding ‘Road to Homer’

Photographer showcases the five-year journey to Alaska