"Sandy Beach" by Alexis Roberts Keiner (above) and "Water, Water" (below) by Suzanne Peck are on display at the Ruby Room where the two artists have a joint show, "Ebb and Flow: A Conversation Between Two Artists."
Dean Guaneli's "Unhinged" at Franklin St. Gallery. Stoneware, salmon vertebrae, leather, raven and seabird feathers. Inspired by dance mask, Athabascan, 1800s.
Kathleen Wiest will present the show "Edges," a student of Southeast Alaska tidelines, shorelines and edges at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center.
Story last updated at 6/29/2011 - 1:27 pm
Alaska State Museum, 395 Whittier Street, 465-2901, www.museums.state.ak.us
Featured exhibit: "Just Old Hats: Headgear in Alaska History"
The Alaska State Museum will be open with extended hours during the First Friday gallery walk with free admission from 4 to 7 p.m. Steve Henrikson, Curator of Collections, will conduct a walk-through of the summer exhibit "Just Old Hats: Headgear in Alaska History" at 5:30 p.m.
On display as a part of the "Hats" exhibit are many forms of headgear worn by Alaska Natives, Russians, Siberians and Sámi people over the past two centuries, as well as more recent fashions donned by military members, miners and everyday Alaskans. The exhibit will highlight details about how the hats were designed and used as well as their meanings and associations.
Annie Kaill's, 244 Front Street, 586-2880, www.anniekaills.com
Opening reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
Aunt Claudia's Dolls, 114 S. Franklin Street Suites 102, 103 & 105 (above Hearthside Books)
Bentwood and Bead Gallery, 315 3rd Street, 463-1277
The Canvas, 223 Seward Street, 586-1750, www.canvasarts.org
Opening reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
Featured artist: Photography by Dana White.
The Franklin Street Gallery at the Baranof Hotel, 127 North Franklin, 780-6204, FranklinStreetGallery@gmail.com
Featured artist: Dean Guaneli
Opening reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
"Heavy Masks: Ceramic Faces of Alaska" by local artist Dean Guaneli features pieces inspired primarily by 19th and early 20th century wooden Alaska Native masks.
Guaneli has been creating ceramics for over ten years, initially making delicate functional pottery. When he retired from the practice of law in 2006, he began experimenting with ceramic sculpture. He has exhibited his ceramics at the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council over the past nine years with other potters from Blue Clay Studio, but this is his first solo show. He exhibited five prototype masks at the JAHC gallery in December 2009 and, based on the positive response, he has worked for the last year and half to create this show.
Local painters also exhibiting at the gallery in July are Barbara Craver, Cristine Crooks, Pua Maunu and Jane Stokes.
Gold Town Nickelodeon, 171 Shattuck Way, 586-2875, www.goldtownnick.com
Featured artists: JUMP Film Festival
Performance: 7 & 9 p.m. Friday
Cap off Gallery Walk with the JUMP Summer Film Festival featuring local short films. Additional shows will be held Thursday, June 30 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, July 2 at 7 and 9 p.m. Pick up free tickets in advance at Lucid Reverie in the Emporium Mall.
Heritage Coffee Company, 174 South Franklin Street
Featured artist: Charity Green
Opening reception: 5-8 p.m.
Painter Charity Green will open her exhibit "STILL/LIFE" during First Friday. Artist's statement: "There are many talented wildlife and adventure photographers in this area, and hopefully you've been privileged to see their work. I wanted to share something different with you: a few glimpses of the quiet, personal moments of my own Alaskan life. The still, small things. I'm a painter, not a photographer. But I see and experience amazing things living here - things that I cannot capture. They are parts of a big, ongoing story, a series of shows on the theme 'My Alaskan Life.'"
JAHC Gallery at the Juneau Arts & Culture Center, 350 Whittier Street, 586-2787, jahc.org/gallery
Featured artists: Kathleen Wiest and Dorinda Skains
Opening reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council's new show pairs work from Kathleen Wiest and Dorinda Skains. Each artist gives distinctive and beautiful treatment to our very unique Southeast landscapes. With the touch and influence of their shifting personal relationship with this place we get to stand in the bushes and peak into the windows of their worlds, finding new depth and dimensions in the familiar.
Kathleen Wiest is presenting "Edges," a study of the southeast Alaska tidelines, shorelines and edges that form between beach and forest. This body of work was conceived over the course of one summer season in Tenakee Inlet and includes both sculptural ceramic forms and acrylic paintings.
A series of Southeast Alaskan landscapes by DK Skains include views of Gastineau Channel, Douglas Island, Mendenhall Glacier and more, mostly painted with acrylic and mixed media on a series of small square canvas.
Juneau Artists Gallery, 175 S. Franklin Street, 586-9891, www.juneauartistsgallery.com
Featured artist: Gordon Harrison
Opening reception: 4-7 p.m.
Local ceramic artist Gordon Harrison is the July featured artist at the Juneau Artists Gallery. He has new tile designs with new clay and new glazes, including several new stoneware trivets for everyday, tabletop use. Most of Harrison's plates and platters feature local sea and bird life. These are made with pure-white stoneware that contains porcelain. He has started making new tiles and trivets with a course, buff clay that resembles beach sand when fired. The appearance of this clay inspired a six-tile beach scene, on display at the Gallery.
Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Corner of 4th and Main Street, across from the Capitol, 586-3572
The City Museum will not be open during First Friday, but continuing special exhibits this month include "Get Your Motors Running: Chainsaws and Outboards on the Last Frontier" and "Honeymoon Tonight, photography by Patrice Helmar." Museum hours are weekdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and weekends 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Kodiak Coat Company, 245 Marine Way No. 14, upstairs from Paradise Cafe
Opening reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
On First Friday Bridget Milligan's boutique will feature a new array of vibrantly hand-dyed natural fiber skirts, as well as hand-made leather jackets. Also featured will be rain skirts!
Paradise Café, 245 Marine Way #10, 586-2253
Paradise Cafe will be open late (until 8 p.m.) for First Friday.
Peer Amid Beads, 130 Front Street, 463-4438
The Plant People, 224 Seward Street, 523-9825, www.theplantpeoplellc.net
Rainforest Yoga, 174 S. Franklin St., Suite 202, info@rainforestyoga.org
Rainforest Yoga will offer a free introductory yoga class ("Yoga Tastin") during First Friday, from 5:15-6:15 p.m.
Ravensong Gallery, 127 N. Franklin Street
Open hours: Until 8 p.m.
Ravensong, one of Juneau's newest galleries, will be open on First Friday to show its selection of Alaska Native art. There will be carvers in residence and totem pole carving.
The Rendezvous, 184 S. Franklin Street
Featured artists: Sit in with the Band open mic, details at 523-8984 or caputo737@gmail.com.
Performance time: 9:30 p.m.
Acoustic instrumentalists and singers are invited to join the host band (Clay Good, Chris Frary, Kari Groven and Jason Caputo). Bring your instrument and an amp if you need one.
The Rookery, 111 Seward Street, 463-3013
Ruby Room, Emporium Mall, between Heritage and Gold Town
Featured artists: Alexis Roberts Keiner and Suzanne Peck
Opening reception: 4:30 p.m.
Artists Alexis Roberts Keiner and Suzanne Peck explore water, landscape, home and the sense of place in their first collaboration "Ebb and Flow: A Conversation Between Two Artists."
Peck and Keiner, who met at Colorado College, are from opposite ends of the country. Peck was born and raised in an affluent New Jersey suburb of New York City. She studied poetry and creative writing in her undergraduate years, and then discovered glass blowing in Italy. She quickly transitioned into visual arts, which lead her to Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned an MFA in Glass Sculpture. Peck often works with video and photographs. This is the first showing of her paintings.
Born in Anchorage and raised between there and Juneau, Keiner grew up with a paintbrush in her hand. Granddaughter of Anglo-American muralist and portrait painter Erling Roberts, Keiner resisted traditional subject matter until meeting Diana Tillion of Halibut Cove in 1999. For the 10 years that followed Keiner spent a portion of each summer in Halibut Cove studying watercolor and octopus ink painting. In true form to her mentor, Keiner works only from life and sketches relying on the subject to dictate the media used.
Since 2003, Keiner and Peck have often discussed and debated art, environment and the American landscape. "Ebb and Flow" works as a collection of snapshots from the artists' dialog on home, exile, form and impermanence. The artists will host an informal discussion and artist talk for their show.
The Silverbow, 120 Second Street, 586-4146, www.silverbowinn.com
Featured artists: Joe McCabe
Opening reception: 5 p.m.
"Breaches, Blows & Bubblenetting: Humpbacks & Orcas of Juneau, Alaska" will showcase fine art photography on canvas by Juneau naturalist photographer Joe McCabe.
Wilderness Peaks Gallery, 159 S. Franklin St.
Featured artist: Daniel Buckscott.
Come see over 75 stunning photographs of the Alaska and Canadian wilderness by Daniel Buckscott in Wilderness Peaks Gallery's new location.
