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Rose Kinney Hedlund (1917–2004) in the 1930s wears the k’anyagi dress that is featured in the Dena’inaq Huch’ulyeshi exhibition. The dress is made from wool, beads, dentalium shells, caribou hide and fur. -Photo courtesy Emma Hill

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‘The Dena’ina Way of Living’ opens Friday at Pratt

On loan from the Anchorage Musuem, “Dena’inaq’ Huch’ulyeshi: The Dena’ina Way of Living” opens Friday with a reception…

Emmet Meyer, left, and Laura Norton, center, and Esther Lowe, right, put up the Pier One Theatre sign on the Homer Spit on Saturday.-Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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The Arts In Brief

Friends of Homer Public Library get Big Read grantThe National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Friends…

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Kachemak Bay Campus history

July 1, 1964: University of Alaska Board of Regents approves request by the Kenai City School District to…

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Kachemak Bay Campus: Furthering education for 48 years

When the Kachemak Bay Campus, Kenai Peninsula College, University of Alaska Anchorage awarded degrees or certificates to 151…

From left to right, Lindianne Sarno, Sharon Friesen Schulz and Sunrise Kilcher-Sjoeberg rehearse recently Schulz’s song, “Sweet Little Bird,” for the 11th annual “On the Wing: Celebrating Birds and Spring with Poetry and Song” concert at 7 p.m. today at the Homer Theatre. -Photo Provided

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‘On the Wing’ concert starts at 7 tonight

The Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival “On the Wing: Celebrating Birds and Spring with Poetry and Song” starts at…

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BLM offers artist residency

The Bureau of Land Management is looking to host an artist for two weeks in the Yukon River…

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Bunnell opens endowment fund

Bunnell Street Arts Center has opened an endowment fund at the Homer Foundation. The Bunnell Street Arts Center…

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‘Searching for Sublime’ starts

Visiting artists Jimmy Riordan, Jesus Landin Torrez III and Michael Gerace start their “Searching for the Sublime” art…

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Pier One announces schedule

Pier One Theatre has announced its May and June play schedule. Showing starting in May are these performances…

Homer artist Peter A. Lind Jr.’s work, “Spirit Loon,” will be part of the 2014 In the Spirit Contemporary Native Arts exhibition at the Washington State History Museum, Tacoma. -Photo Provided

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Artist’s work in ‘Spirit’ exhibit

Homer artist Peter A. Lind Jr.’s wood-and-bead work, “Spirit Loon,” has been accepted in the 2014 In the…

“Tidal Datum” shows the tides over a month in San Francisco Bay. Each curve is a day’s tidal changes.-Photo Provided

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From science to sculpture

In presenting information in everything from data-filled reports to newspapers, the X-Y graph rules supreme. Flat, in two…

Four thoughts for beginning gardeners

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Four thoughts for beginning gardeners

My mind is jam packed with worry about you new gardeners. You are at the forefront of my…

A sandhill crane feeds in Beluga Slough last week with a flock of greater-white fronted and cackling Canada geese, evidence that not just shorebirds are migrating through or nesting in Homer.  -Michael Armstrong, Homer News

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Best Bets

Warm weather, soft spring rains, trees turning green, thousands of shorebirds arriving and businesses opening on the Homer…