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    Arts
    Performers in “Kaleidoscope” rehearse on May 5, 2019, at the Mariner Theatre in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Tia Pietsch)
    Youth performers create ‘beautiful form’
    By Emilie Springer For the Homer News • May 15, 2019 5:30 am

    With the cancellation this year of the annual Jubilee performing arts show in February, a new youth program came about…

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    Gordon writes sprawling book of life in Alaska
    Gordon writes sprawling book of life in Alaska
    By Michael Armstrong • May 8, 2019 5:30 am

    In his 76 years of rough-and-tumble living, Halibut Cove writer Mike Gordon has come to be known as “Mountain Mike”…

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    Visitors walk toward the site of the Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, Alaska, last Saturday, May 4, 2019, at groundbreaking ceremonies for the main house and cabins that will house visiting women writers. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    Ground broken for Storyknife Writers Retreat
    By Michael Armstrong • May 8, 2019 5:30 am

    Under sunny skies and in a crisp westerly breeze, supporters of the Storyknife Writers Retreat last Saturday attended groundbreaking ceremonies…

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    Collaborative art from the 23rd annual Kachemak Bay Watercolor Society.
    First Friday: Local artists featured
    By Michael Armstrong • May 1, 2019 5:30 am

    May kicks off Homer’s summer arts season with a wide variety of shows, including a pop-up by Flex School students…

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    RJ Nelson’s work of art is part of the Choir for Peace show on display before the May 2 and 3, 2019 concerts in the Homer High School Commons in Homer, Alaska. (Photo provided)
    ‘Choir for Peace’ will be community art, music...
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    In the spirit of Homer performances of Mozart’s “Requiem,” sung in 2001 and 2002 to honor the victims of the…

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    Alicia Kelly in an undated photo. (Photo provided)
    Visiting artist uses paper to find ‘the essence...
    By Emilie Springer For the Homer News • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    Alicia Kelly, a paper artist from Lawrence, Kansas, has spent the month of April in Homer as Bunnell Street Art…

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    KP Brass Band celebrates 1-year anniversary with May the Fourth Be With You gig
    KP Brass Band celebrates 1-year anniversary with May...
    By Michael Armstrong • April 24, 2019 5:30 am

    One of Homer’s newest musical groups, the KP (Kenai Peninsula) Brass Band, celebrates its first year of performance with a…

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    The cast of Star Truck rehearse the Spitlandia scene on Sunday, April 14, 2019, at the Mariner Theatre in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Lisa Linegar)
    Locals shine in ‘Star Truck — The Musical’
    By Emilie Springer For the Homer News • April 17, 2019 5:30 am

    “Star Truck—the Musical” is set to take off into a spacious, harmonious, homonym-laden comic atmosphere (throw some hominy into the…

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    One of John Fenske’s paintings at the First Friday, April 5, 2019, opening for his retrospective showing at Kachemak Bay Campus in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)
    ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’ exhibit honors art and...
    By Michael Armstrong • April 10, 2019 5:30 am

    Before former Homer City Council member — and, really, Renaissance man — John Fenske died Jan. 30, 2019, at the…

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    Arts Briefs
    Arts Briefs
    April 10, 2019 5:30 am

    Fireweed seeks art for June exhibit

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    Retrospective shows feature Fenske, Timmreck
    Retrospective shows feature Fenske, Timmreck
    By Michael Armstrong • April 3, 2019 5:30 am

    April’s First Friday exhibits feature two retrospective shows by artists who recently died.

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    Arts Briefs
    Arts Briefs
    April 3, 2019 5:30 am

    Salmonfest announces headliners

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    Homer-area residents pose in front of the “Still Fighting for Alaska” banner Homer artivist Mavis Muller made after the March 24, 1989, grounding of the Exxon Valdez, during a gathering on Sunday, March 24, 2019 on the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska. A tear in the tanker’s hull allowed millions of gallons of Alaska crude to spill into Prince William Sound, fouling more than a thousand miles of Alaska’s coastline. (Photo by McKibben Jackinsky)
    Mavis Muller: spinning art into action
    By McKibben Jackinsky • March 27, 2019 5:30 am

    “Artist activist” was how the late author and wilderness defender Edward Abbey once described Mavis Muller. It’s a fitting title…

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