Arts News

Important program residency, lecture, and application dates information.

2009 Arts Events

During the summer of 2009 the following arts events will be taking place in the Denali area:

• June 19-29: John Morgan residency
• June 29, 7:30 pm: John Morgan reading at Denali Education Center
  John Morgan was invited to be Denali’s first Writer-in-Residence, which expands the Artist-in-Residence program at Denali to include non-visual media. He moved with his family to Fairbanks in 1976, where he teaches in the graduate Creative Writing program at the University of Alaska. He has published three books of poetry, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, The New Republic, and in many other magazines and anthologies.
  
  
• July 21-30: Bill Brody residency
• July 30, 7:00 pm: Bill Brody lecture at the Murie Science and Learning Center
  Bill Brody is an artist and printmaker who obtains inspiration for his work from the wilderness landscapes that he has been able to explore over the years. The sketches, journals, and photographs he makes during his explorations are source materials for paintings, prints, and very large-scale works on forged and carved copper and bronze. He is a professor emeritus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Art Department, and he is known for his innovative work on the Body Language User Interface (BLUI) project at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at UAF.
  
  
• Aug. 4-13: Gail Niebrugge residency
• Aug. 13, 7:00 p.m.: Gail Niebrugge lecture at Murie Science and Learning Center
  Long time Alaska painter Gail Niebrugge is known throughout the world for her use of pointillism, small-dot like strokes, in her work. A five time winner in the National Diabetes Association’s Holiday Art Search, Niebrugge’s artwork has appeared on hundreds of thousands of Christmas cards sold nationwide to benefit diabetes research.  She has completed seven major public commissions in Alaska, including a ten panel multi-dimensional artwork for the U.S. Customs in Skagway. She was the first artist-in-residence for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and is the author of “Gail Niebrugge’s Alaska  Wildflowers”, a book about her thirty-three years of work focused entirely on Alaska.
  
  
• Aug. 18-27: Karin Franzen residency
• Aug. 27, 7:30 pm: Karin Franzen lecture at the Denali Education Center
  The work of fiber artist Karin Franzen is widely known and she has been in several important international and national exhibitions, including “Quilt Visions 2008: Contemporary Expressions", "“Quilts of the Pacific Rim”, and “Made in Alaska”.   Her work revolves around one of her favorite subjects, the birds of Alaska.  Franzen uses the skills honed over a lifetime: drawing, mathematics, structural design, sewing, an understanding of biology, and business acumen to create her work.

2010 Artist-in-Residence Program Application Information

• May 15: 2010 application period opens
  To apply or find out more information about application requirements, visit the application overview page or the online application.
  
• October 31: Denali Artist-in-Residence program applications due
• November 30: Notifications of Denali Artist-in-Residence program applications sent out