Annual Operating Support Grant
Career Opportunity Grant, Workshop Grant
Community Arts Development Grant, Master Artist & Apprentice
AIS Independent Grant

First, thank you to all of those who participated in and/or sponsored the 2009 Alaska Arts and Culture Conference, especially those of you who brought gifts from your communities for the door prizes. This little perk of the conference exceeded our wildest dreams. Actually, the entire gathering provided a much needed in-the-dark-of-January boost to all of us. I also want to recognize Roger Schmidt for his morning trombone; Kari Groven and Jason Caputo for their lovely guitar and vocals, John Damberg’s Advanced Jazz Ensemble; and Peggy Shumaker and Kes Woodward for the lovely broadsides. For what is an arts conference without art? And yes, we won’t wait another nine years to sponsor another conference – you’ve convinced us of that!

ASCA schedules teleconference for annual grantees for Thursday, Feb. 19, 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. To sign up, contact brooke.quillen@alaska.gov

The Alaska State Council on the Arts would like to have artists, arts administrators and arts educators interested in serving on the 2009-2010 grant panels to complete an information sheet.

Congratulations to Cass Pook, Nick Galanin, Dave Galanin, Tommy Joseph, Teri Rofkar, Helen Mercado, Evelyn Johnson for their acceptance into the juried 2009 Northwest Folklife Festival at Seattle Center. Roughly 40,000 visitors attend the The Folklife Festival. For more information on the festival visit their website, http://www.nwfolklife.org/

I can’t say enough about the Alaska Arts and Culture Conference and the Alaska Native Artists Summit hosted by the Alaska State Council on the Arts the end of January! I had no idea what to expect. It was amazing to be surrounded by such Alaska talent. The last Alaska Arts and Culture Conference happened almost ten years ago. The Alaska State Council on the Arts heard loud and clear from all of the attendees at this gathering, please host another conference soon – maybe in two or three years. If you didn’t get a chance to come to this conference don’t miss the next one. You will be in for the ride of your life! What else could you expect anyway when you get a large group of artists gather together?

The Alaska State Council on the Arts convened Alaska Native artists, consultants, arts organization leaders and friends from all over the country to share ideas, discuss issues, learn about resources and make connections. The National Endowment for the Arts has recognized the importance and significance of our goal to inspire, connect and empower Alaska Native artists and generously funded the Alaska Native Artists Summit 2009.

A great conference was held in Anchorage the last week end in January. There were some really fine workshops on Arts in Education led by Arts Educators and Artists. It was inspiring to see so many people interested in furthering the arts in our education system. For education activities highlights were the Juneau workshops being offered to teaching artists to help them become familiar with integrating arts into the classroom, fund raising strategies from successful schools to help fund arts programs, and inspiring talks by several artists. If you are interested in getting more information on the ideas presented please call the Arts in Education office at 269-6682.

The US Senate has passed the federal stimulus package. Now a conference committee will hammer out details, which may include $50 million for the arts.

ASCA would like to thank everyone who participated in this event. It was a great success and very rewarding to all of us!


Presenter: Roger Schmidt

Attendees: Cece Esparta and Jim Simard


Presenters: Kari Groven and Jason Caputo

Luncheon Speaker: Jack Lew

Presenter: Leisel Fenner

Attendees: Shala Dobson and Barbara Yawit  

 
Nancy DeCherney, Executive Director Juneau Arts and Humanitites Council

To view more photos from this event, please visit
our webiste at http://www.eed.state.ak.us/aksca/photos.htm

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Charlotte Fox, Executive Director
(907) 269-6607 charlotte.fox@alaska.gov
Saunders McNeill, Native and Community Arts Program Director
(907) 269-6603 saunders.mcneill@alaska.gov
Andrea Noble, Visual and Literary Arts Program Director
(907) 269-6605 andrea.noble@alaska.gov
Gina Signe Brown, Administrative Manager
(907) 269-6608 gina.brown@alaska.gov
Ruth Glenn, Arts in Education Program Director
(907) 269-6682 ruth.glenn@alaska.gov
Janelle Matz, Alaska Contemporary Art Bank Manager
(907) 269-6604 janelle.matz@alaska.gov
Brooke Quillen, Receptionist/Administration Support
(907) 269-6597 brooke.quillen@alaska.gov

Benjamin Brown CHAIR (Juneau) benjamino1789@hotmail.com
Gail Niebrugge VICE CHAIR (Palmer) niebrugg@matonline.net
Jocelyn Clark (Juneau) jocelyn@jocelynclark.com
Patricia "Jinx" Whitaker (Fairbanks) jinx@ptialasaka.net
Micky Becker (Anchorage) becker@gci.net
Peggy MacDonald Ferguson (Fairbanks) pegferguson@gci.net
Sven Haakanson, Jr. (Kodiak) sven@alutiiqmuseum.org
Nancy Harbour (Anchorage) nharbour@alaskapac.org
Theresa John (Bethel) lstj@uaf.edu
John Kohler (Fairbanks) kohlerjj@ruralalaska.net
Aryne Randall (Anchorage) aryne.k.randall@wellsfargo.com