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May 2018 ASCA News
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Artists from Ketchikan at a professional development workshop in April with Sharon Louden, Matthew Deleget and Hrag Vartanian.
photo credit: Vinson Valega
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News for the ASCA Communique?
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Submit articles, short notices, calls for art or RFPs for ASCA to consider including in the next Communique.
Contact Saunders McNeill at
[email protected]
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May is in full swing, ushering in a season of renewal and ever-lengthening days!
We at ASCA, along with artists in Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks recently had the great pleasure of meeting three nationally recognized arts leaders based in New York. Hrag Vartanian,
founder of Hyperallergic, and artists Sharon Louden and Matthew Deleget visited Alaska for Sharon's book tour, "Sustaining a Creative Life". During the tour, they provided professional development workshops, visited artists' studios and connected with artists through community conversations.
This series of community conversations and workshops were coordinated by Alaskan artist, Pat Shelton. Sharon's partner, Vinson Valega, videotaped each workshop and we hope to be able to post them to ASCA's website soon. Sharon also shared a comprehensive list of publications, websites and opportunities for artists - check it out here!
If you are interested in resources for artists from these very informative workshops, please contact Keren Lowell, ASCA's new Visual and Literary Arts Program Director.
Keren oversees the Art in Public Places program and State Writer Laureate program in addition to grants administration. Her work as an artist and educator, as well as seven years of experience working at ASCA, are valuable assets as our agency moves into the future.
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photo credit: Cody Swanson
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Keren holds a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bachelor's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Northern Colorado. Learn more about her work here.
For more professional development and networking opportunities, please save the date for ASCA's upcoming Statewide Arts Conference Inter:Connect, September 6-8, 2018 in Fairbanks.
As we plan sessions and activities for this conference, we welcome your input. Please fill out this survey and tell us what would be useful to you.
Conference registration, including applications for travel stipends, will open June 30, 2018. Stay tuned!
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Bravo!
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Ten individuals will receive $18,000 Fellowships and 25 artists will receive Project Awards of $7,500. Recipients were selected from a pool of almost 400 applicants. The artists represent all career stages. Their work spans cultures and disciplines, sustaining and expanding on traditional art forms and employing new technology and media to make art on the creative frontier.
"Occasionally someone asks me whether I have a favorite grant program," says Rasmuson Foundation President & CEO Diane Kaplan. "That's a little like asking a mother whether she has a favorite child, and my response is the same: I love all of our grant programs. But I can say that there is nothing we do that is more exciting than seeing the creative ideas and original artistic work produced by our Individual Artist Award recipients. The individual and collective imaginative energy of Alaskans just amazes me, year after year."
The Foundation also offers a single Distinguished Artist award each year in recognition of a lifetime of creative excellence. Alvin Amason of Anchorage and Kodiak Island was announced as the Foundation's 2018 Distinguished Artist. The singular honor includes a $40,000 grant. A six-member panel of Alaska artists and art professionals recommended Amason for the award.
About the Individual Artist Awards
Fellowships are awarded to mid-career or mature artists ready for an intensive, yearlong project. Project Awards are an opportunity for artists at any career stage of their careers to pursue specific, short-term works. A panel of 13 artists, scholars and art community leaders from the Lower 48 reviewed artist applications and met for three days in Anchorage to select the 2018 awardees.
Beyond financial support, the Foundation is expanding its promotion of artists through social media, stories, films and its website. It also is sponsoring intensive workshops to help artists build their business skills.
Since 2004, the Foundation has made a total of 480 awards to individual artists: 341 Project Awards, 124 Fellowships, and 15 Distinguished Artist awards totaling $4.35 million.
About the Foundation
Rasmuson Foundation was created in May 1955 by Jenny Rasmuson to honor her late husband "E.A." Rasmuson. Through grantmaking and initiatives, the Foundation aims to promote a better life for all Alaskans.
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Alaska Arts Education Consortium Summer Institutes for Teachers
Register Now!
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Professional Development is one of the main goals of the
Alaska Arts Education Consortium and can take various forms ranging from short workshops and school district inservices to 2-week long, 80 hour Institutes. Every year varies on Institutes offered, locations in Alaska, focus of the training, and teacher-leaders hired to run the Institutes.
Participants at Institutes:
- Learn how to integrate the arts (visual, drama, music & Native cultural arts) into their school curriculum
- Work with and learn from Alaska Native Elders
- Understand the impact of the arts on student performance, motivation and brain activity
- Experience the production, criticism & appreciation of art
- Form a cadre of teachers in the arts across Alaska
In 2018, AAEC will offer three Summer Institutes, in partnership with communities. Complete information about the Summer Institutes is available at
https://akartsed.org/institutes/.
2018 Mat-Su Arts Institute Sustaining Best Practices: Steppin' Into the Arts
2018 Anchorage Arts are Exceptional Institute: Special Education and the Arts
2018 Bethel Multicultural Arts Institute
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Quarterly Grants Open for FY19 First Quarter
Application Deadline: June 1, 2018.
Quarterly Grants for Individuals
- Career Opportunity Grants
- Master Artist and Apprentice Grants
Quarterly Grants for Organizations
- Workshop Grants
- Community Arts Development Grants
- Walker Arts Presentation and Touring Grants
Cultural Collaborations Project Grants Open for FY19
Harper Arts Touring Fund Grants Open for FY19
ASCA Board of Trustees 1st Quarter Teleconference - June 22, 2018, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm
Alaska State Council on the Arts Statewide Arts Conference | Fairbanks
September 6-8, 2018
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Calls for Art and Requests for Proposals
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STYLE '18
Deadline: June 1, 2018
Now in its 12th year, STYLE is a show, sale and benefit celebrating independent contemporary design. This is a curated event focused on the highest quality fashion, jewelry and accessories.
STYLE '18 will take place over two days on Saturday, November 3, 2018 (10:00 AM-5:00 PM) and Sunday, November 4, 2018 (10:00 AM-4:00 PM) at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. Our esteemed jurors will hand select 36 national and international designers to participate in the 2018 event. Submit your application today to participate.
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
POLAR LAB COLLECTIVE
Deadline: May 25, 2018, 11 p.m. AKDT
Polar Lab: Collective is a program for emerging Alaska Native artists to study the collections of the Anchorage Museum and the objects in the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center's "Living Our Cultures" exhibition. The program provides an opportunity for artists to find inspiration, insights, and technical information from the collections, through close-up research and documentation contributing to the collaborative relationship between artists and museums.
Up to three participants will be selected for 2018 and will receive a $400 honorarium. Travel funds are available for two artists living outside of Anchorage. Selected artists will participate in a three-part program: 1) Artists will meet with staff (in person or by phone) to discuss potential research interests; 2) Artists will spend two days at the museum meeting with staff and studying objects and archival resources; and 3) Artists will meet with staff (in person or by phone) to share their experience with the program and to answer any follow-up questions.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
Alaska Native artists (any medium) who is an emerging artist - someone in the early stages of their career, has specialized training (formally or informally), and has created a modest body of work.
APPLICATION
An application should include:
1) Cover letter: include name, cultural community affiliation, artistic medium, description of artistic interests and goals, and interest in the program.
2) Resume: Please include contact information (including website, if applicable), education (formal or informal), etc.
3) Digital images of artwork: Please include at least three but no more than ten examples.
The deadline for applications is 5pm, Friday, May 25, 2018. Application materials can submitted via email to Monica Shah, Director of Collections, at
[email protected].
All-Alaska Biennial 2018 Call for Entries
Deadline: June 15, 2018
The All-Alaska Biennial features contemporary work by Alaska artists. This juried exhibition is a continuation of the Anchorage Museum's
All-Alaska Juried and
Earth, Fire & Fibre exhibitions, which began more than 30 years ago to encourage the creation of new works by Alaska artists in all media. The process is open to Alaskan artists working in all media, including digital and new media.
This exhibition will open to the public November 2, 2018 in the 3rd floor galleries of the
Anchorage Museum. The All-Alaska Biennial will travel to other venues in Alaska after it closes in Anchorage March 3, 2019.
Call for Art: Exhibit Proposals Accepted
Artists interested in exhibiting at the Patron Lounge Gallery at Cyrano's Theatre Company in Anchorage can contact K N Goodrich at (907) 243-3550.
The
Kodiak Public Library Association Art Acquisition Committee, (KPLA-AAC) assisted by the City of Kodiak, requests Concepts Proposals (RFP) for three (3) distinct interior locations within the Kodiak Public Library. The total project budget for the procurement of Public Art to be installed in the Library is $15,000.00.
All submissions are due by
July 15, 2018. For more information, contact
[email protected]
 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2019
Deadline: September 3, 2018
For the fifth triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery invites artists across the United States to broaden the definition of portraiture through submissions in all visual arts media including but not restricted to painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, textiles, video, performance, and digital or time-based media. The resulting exhibition, opening in November 2019, will celebrate the portrait's capacity to reveal facets of its subject's identity. Whether realist or allegorical, participative or activist, intimate or documentary, each of the selected artworks will underscore the enduring relevance of portraiture in contemporary life.
In the past, the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition has solicited products of direct encounters between artists and sitters. For the upcoming 2019 installment, however, the Portrait Gallery also welcomes indirect encounters, such as portraits that employ appropriated or readymade imagery as a means of responding to history. The competition also seeks conceptual portraits that utilize archival research to challenge and engage the social and political landscape of our time.
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Grants and Funding
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Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program
Deadline for application | May 21, 2018
2018 grant applications open until May 21 for both emerging and established writers who are writing about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in four categories-articles, blogs, books and short-form writing-these grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from scholarly studies to self-published blogs. The grant also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods or experiments with literary styles.
Writers who meet the program's eligibility requirements are invited to apply in the following categories:
- Articles
- Blogs
- Books
- Short-Form Writing
For guidelines and additional eligibility requirements, please visit
https://www.artswriters.org/.
Western Arts Alliance Opens Application for Advancing Indigenous Performance Program
Deadline for Application | June 13, 2018
Western Arts Alliance (WAA) is pleased to open a call for the inaugural cohort of the Native Launchpad Program. This program will provide Indigenous artists with tools and resources needed to further their careers and introduce them to the world of arts presenting and management. It is for professional Indigenous artists who are interested in touring yet have little experience working with presenters and need guidance and assistance to break into the touring market. The Native Launchpad will help create opportunity and sustainability for individual Native artists and groups through financial support, professional development opportunities, strategic promotions and networking.
Native Launchpad participants will receive:
- A total cash award of $17,000: $10,000 for the first year, $5,000 for the second year and $2,000 for the third year to help get participants tour ready
- Western Arts Alliance membership for three years
- Complimentary registration and travel support to the WAA annual conference for three years
- Professional development opportunities during the conference and through WAA's webinars and other professional development opportunities
- Promotional benefits including marketing banners for the conference, feature coverage in the program, introduction at the Juried Showcase
- Native Launchpad Artist Profile in Western Ways e-newsletter and AIPP Resource Center
- Three years of mentorship/coaching from an Indigenous performing arts veteran, selected for the ability to advance your touring and career goals
- APAP Artists Membership for three years plus travel support to attend the APAP|NYC conference for the first two years. As part of the above strategy to help artists build and strengthen connections with national networks, WAA will partner with APAP to offer reduced conference registration rate, in addition to creating educational and opportunities during the conference
The total estimated value of each Native Launchpad award is $40,000 over the three-year cycle of the cohort. Recipients of this award will be asked to commit to engage in all elements of the Native Launchpad award for the duration of the three years. Participants will be eligible to seek additional funding through WAA's Advancing Indigenous Performance Program's travel and touring funds during the three years of the award.
Qualified applicants will be professional performing artists who intend on touring and self-identify as belonging to a Native American Nation, Alaskan Native Corporation, Native Hawaiian or who identify as an Indigenous person from the US Territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. The program is open to any performing arts discipline that is suitable for touring and artists that are working in contemporary or traditional frameworks are encouraged to apply. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of Indigenous performing arts professionals.
Click here to submit an application. Applications close June 13, 5:00 pm PST.
Notification of awards will be made by June 30, 2018.
Please see the application FAQ for additional information. For application support and questions please contact WAA's interim Launchpad Program Manager,
Andre Bouchard.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Emergency Grants
Deadline: Monthly
In keeping with
FCA's mission to encourage, sponsor, and promote work of a contemporary, experimental nature, applicants must demonstrate that their artistic practice falls within this context. Created in 1993, Emergency Grants provides prompt funding for innovative visual and performing artists who:
- Have unanticipated, sudden opportunities to present their work to the public when there is insufficient time to seek other sources of funding
- Incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates
Emergency Grants is the only active, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate assistance of this kind to artists living and working anywhere in the United States or U.S. territories, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad. Grants range in amount from $500 to $2,500.
For complete information about the Emergency Grants, visit the website at
Alaska Community Foundation
Strengthening Organizations Grant
The
Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) offers the
Strengthening Organizations grant program with the goal of funding projects that will help Alaska nonprofits become better equipped to meet their missions. This program seeks applications for projects that will directly enhance the work of the applicant organization, making it stronger with well-organized systems in place and skilled employees who have the training and resources to successfully provide services.
Eligible nonprofit organizations apply for grants to build the capacity of their organizations. Eligibility is limited to 501(c)3 nonprofit, or equivalent, organizations located in the state of Alaska. Equivalent organizations may include tribes, schools, churches, local government agencies and programs.
To best position your application for success, applicants are strongly encouraged to speak with ACF staff ahead of time to discuss their project and to submit a draft proposal for review by ACF staff. Draft reviews are available. Please contact ACF program staff via email:
[email protected] or by phone: 907-334-6700 for a draft review.
More information and links to the online application system are available at
www.alaskacf.org.
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Our Town Grants
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New FY 2019 Our Town Grant Application Guidelines Now Available!
Read on for:
- application details
- highlights from the new guidelines
- upcoming webinars
- very important information about SAM registration
Through project-based funding for creative placemaking, the NEA Our Town program seeks to support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities by advancing local economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. Successful Our Town projects ultimately lay the groundwork for systemic changes that sustain the integration of arts, culture, and design into strategies for strengthening communities, and should engage in partnership with other sectors (such as agriculture and food, economic development, education and youth, environment and energy, health, housing, public safety, transportation, and workforce development).
The application deadline for Our Town is August 8, 2018
(earlier than past years!). This round will support creative placemaking projects that start on or after July 1, 2019 in two categories:
Place-Based Projects
Through arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and/or artist/creative industry support, these projects contribute to improved quality of life in local communities. These projects require a partnership between a nonprofit organization and a local government entity, with one of the partners being a cultural organization. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $200,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
Knowledge Building Projects
These projects build and disseminate knowledge about how to leverage arts, culture, and design as mechanisms for strengthening communities. These grants are available to arts service or design service organizations, and/or other national or regional membership, policy, or university-based organizations. These projects require a partnership that will facilitate the knowledge sharing and/or exchange. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $100,000, with a minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount.
This year's guidelines have been updated based on a deep dive into data from past-funded Our Town projects. Here are a few notable changes:
We are looking for projects that will strengthen communities. In your application, we will ask you to explain how the proposed project will help realize positive and equitable economic, physical, and/or social outcomes. The "Strengthening Communities Objective" takes the place of the "Livability Objective" language from previous years.
We are looking for catalytic projects. Review criteria now acknowledge transformative projects that show promise for supporting the long-term, systemic integration of arts, culture, and design into approaches to community challenges.
We've updated the list of project types. The list, meant to inspire applications to consider the range of ways arts, culture, and design can be tapped, includes activities related to arts engagement, cultural planning, design, and artist and creative industry support.
Join us for two webinars designed to help you navigate the application process.
How to Apply Webinar
Date: June 20, 2018
We will walk through the two-part application process and provide helpful hints for navigating the NEA's online application portal.
Tips & Tricks Webinar
Date: June 27, 2018
We will share tips on how to make a clear and compelling Our Town application, and unpack guidelines and eligibility requirements.
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Professional Development
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North Words Writers Symposium | Skagway
Registration open
Conference dates: May 30 - June 2, 2018
North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway has opened registration for their 2018 conference. Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief, Rin Tin Tin, and Saturday Nights, is the 2018 keynote writer. Other faculty include Alaska Writer Laureate Ernestine Hayes from Juneau, Portland novelist Willy Vlautin, Juneau poet Emily Wall, Ketchikan writer-artist Ray Troll, Washington writer Colleen Mondor, and Fairbanks writer Frank Soos. The 4-day symposium features author panels, writing workshops, and outdoor activities. There is a limit of 40 participants. Organizing faculty include Buckwheat Donahue, Jeff Brady, Daniel Henry, and John Straley. For more information go to
http://nwwriterss.com.
Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference 2018 | Homer
Registration open
Conference dates: June 8 - 12, 2018
Registration is open for the seventeenth annual Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, June 8-12, 2018. Held in Homer, Alaska, this nationally recognized writing conference features workshops, readings and panel presentations in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and the business of writing. Keynote presenter Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award finalist, will be joined by Jean Anderson, Rick Barot, Richard Chiappone, Bryan Allen Fierro, Diane Glancy, Ernestine Hayes, Jean Hegland, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Barbara Hurd, Kevin Larimer, Nancy Lord, Peggy Shumaker, Floyd Skloot, Joe Wilkins, and Sally Wofford-Girand. Optional manuscript reviews, agent/editor meetings, post-conference workshop and boat cruise. All information and faculty bios may be found at their website,
http://sites.kpc.alaska.edu/writersconf/
Alaska State Council on the Arts Statewide Arts Conference | Fairbanks
Save the Date: September 7-8, 2018
More information will be available on our website and in the June ASCA Newsletter! Stay tuned!
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Education and Youth
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Detour | VSA Emerging Young Artists Program Competition and Exhibition
Deadline for applications: May 31, 2018
The Detour call for art is now open and accepting submissions. Help us spread the word about this exciting opportunity for emerging young artists with disabilities, ages 16-25, and help us showcase art that takes us in new direction and celebrates the unexpected.
Fifteen winning artists share a total of $60,000 in awards. Grand Prize is $20,000, First Prize is $10,000, Second Prize is $6,000, and the remaining Awards of Excellence are $2,000 each. Winners will exhibit their selected artwork in a year-long nationally touring exhibition and attend an all-expenses-paid professional development workshop in Washington, D.C.
Save the date: Alaska Art Education Association Conference
Fall Artistic Adventure | September 28-30, 2018 in Talkeetna
Registration for the Alaska Art Education Association Conference will open in August for the Alaska Art Education Association Conference in September. The conference will include a variety of workshops, and keynote speaker, Amy Meissner. Download the Save the Date flier
here. Or visit the website at
https://artedalaska.org/ for more information.
Arts Education Partnership Releases New Resource: Preparing Educators and School Leaders for Effective Arts Integration
This Education Trends report explores successful practices for arts integration, with a focus on educator and school leader professional development, and provides an overview of research that highlights the impact of instructor preparation and professional development on student outcomes.
The
Arts Education Partnership is a national network hosted by the
Education Commission of the States.
To read and download the report, visit
https://www.ecs.org/preparing-educators-and-school-leaders-for-effective-arts-integration/
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Employment
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Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
Multiple Hiring
Application deadlines
: Until filled
The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center has multiple job opportunities for which they are hiring until filled including: Director of Curatorial Strategies, Visitor Services Assistant, Discovery Center Interpreter, MUSE staff.
Visit their
website
for extended position descriptions and application.
Rasmuson Foundation
Hiring Program Officer
Application deadline: Until filled
We are looking for a Program Officer, a key staff member who provides strategic leadership on grants supporting arts, culture, humanities, health care, housing and community development. Program officers work with community leaders on projects related to economic betterment, social infrastructure and quality of life. For complete information visit the website at
https://www.rasmuson.org/about/open-positions/.
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival is hiring Box Office Associates for the 2018 season (July 15-28, 2018). Click
here for the full job description.
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Articles of Interest
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Alaska Museums participate in the Blue Star Museums Program
This summer, 5 museums in Alaska will open their doors to military and their families as part of the ninth annual Blue Star Museums program. Blue Star Museums is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums nationwide to offer free admission to the nation's active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. A list of participating museums nationwide is available at
https://www.arts.gov/national/blue-star-museums.
Participating Alaska Museums include:
"Visiting a museum is a great way to get to know a community-whether it's in your hometown or a stop on a road trip," said NEA Chairman Jane Chu. "We appreciate the enthusiasm of museums all across the country who open their doors for military and their families to spend time together and have new arts experiences."
Museums are welcome to sign up for Blue Star Museums throughout the summer by emailing
[email protected].
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ASCA Staff
Andrea Noble-Pelant, Executive Director
L. Saunders McNeill, Community and Native Arts Program Director
Laura Forbes, Arts in Education Program Director
Keren Lowell, Visual and Literary Arts Program Director
Janelle Matz, Alaska Contemporary Art Bank Manager
ASCA Board of Trustees
Adelheid "Micky" Becker (Anchorage)
Alice Bioff (Nome)
Benjamin Brown, Chair (Juneau)
Peggy Ferguson (Fairbanks)
Charlotte Fox (Anchorage)
Cordelia Kellie (Wasilla)
Patrick Race (Juneau)
Charles "Charlie" Sears (Anchorage)
Jeffry Silverman (Anchorage)
Mary Wegner (Sitka)
Kes Woodward, Vice Chair (Fairbanks)
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