Community Calendar

The first week of June, tiny Sandhill Crane fuzzballs, or colts, will be hatching. “Fuzzball Season” continues until close to the end of June as the later nesting pairs’ eggs hatch. Please keep your dogs on leash and cats inside during this early and vulnerable time for crane colts and other baby wildlife.

Please contact Kachemak Crane Watch with information about your nesting pair and their newly hatched colts. This important data helps us count the total number of colts in the area. KCW tracks nesting success and needs your observations.

Email reports to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org or call 907-235-6262. Include date of hatching, time, location, number of colts, mortalities, and your contact information so we can call for details. For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262.

The Wynn is a birding hotspot. Join us on a tranquil morning walk to some of our favorite bird watching spots. Novice and experienced birders welcome!

Free Monthly Community Event: Coffee & Craft in the HCOA Studio-
We provide the space and tools (& caffeine!) to create and explore new artistic mediums for people of all ages and abilities.
We want to encourage artists to experiment and share their knowledge, forging connections between Homer artists to deepen our understanding of art and each other.
Join us on third Sundays from 11am-2pm-
Learn More & RSVP at homerart.org/event/coffee-and-craft-open-studio/

Stop by the HCOA Gallery Monday - Saturday from 1-5pm to view Color-Texture-Shape-Lines, abstractions by Michelle Michaud. Her works will be on display in the gallery through June 30th!

"Abstract painting gives me the freedom to just paint, without the expectation that the painting should turn out to look a certain way or look like a certain object or scene. For me, abstract art evokes emotion. I love playing with colors, textures, shapes, and lines. The possibilities are endless. Paint what you feel, enjoy what you paint." -Michelle Michaud

Homer Council on the Arts confers its Arts Awards annually to individuals and businesses who have contributed significantly to the arts in our community. Winners will be announced at the HCOA Annual Meeting on Saturday, July 19th. Please nominate your favorite artists & community members and join us to honor the Arts Awards recipients!

Fill out the nomination form online at https://homerart.org/event/homer-council-on-the-arts-annual-awards/ or stop by the HCOA office and fill out a physical form.

HCOA's Annual meeting will be held on Saturday, July 19th. We will talk about HCOA's past year and our upcoming goals. We invite our community to join us for the meeting and help celebrate the winners of our annual awards.

Plants and animals aren’t the only things living in the forest. Come learn about different fungi and their important role in the ecosystem.

The first week of June, tiny Sandhill Crane fuzzballs, or colts, will be hatching. “Fuzzball Season” continues until close to the end of June as the later nesting pairs’ eggs hatch. Please keep your dogs on leash and cats inside during this early and vulnerable time for crane colts and other baby wildlife.

Please contact Kachemak Crane Watch with information about your nesting pair and their newly hatched colts. This important data helps us count the total number of colts in the area. KCW tracks nesting success and needs your observations.

Email reports to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org or call 907-235-6262. Include date of hatching, time, location, number of colts, mortalities, and your contact information so we can call for details. For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262.

Homer, Alaska - Encaustic painter Antoinette Walker and ceramist Carla Potter exhibit at Bunnell Street Arts Center from June 5 - July 2, 2025. The exhibit opening is First Friday, June 6, 5-7pm with artist talks (and in-person ASL accessibility) at 6pm.

Antoinette Walker - Artist statement:

“My creativity and life stories are expressed with coastal marine themes that capture the wild beauty of my home, Alaska. Encaustic is my material of choice – a blend of beeswax, damar crystals and pigment – often using charts, scraps of paper and found objects that are embedded in the wax medium. I draw upon first-hand experiences of fishing, its dangers and excitement. Eroding river banks, weathered canneries, set net sites, surfaces beaten by heavy winds and torrential seas and rustic landscapes tell a compelling story. With every year there are subtle changes and inspirations for a fresh perspective. I’m drawn to these surfaces with textural layers that disclose a story. Using encaustic, painting, scraping, and scratching, I seek to reveal pieces that speak of the past and present. For me, inspiration is often a mystery. In painting, one thing inspires while another fades away. As in the landscape, changes are absorbed and reconfigured.”

Carla Potter - Artist Statement

“Every time I pick up a limpet shell I marvel at its compact form with its subtle shifting curves and endless variety of striations and ribs. Their color, pattern and textures layered in an inimitable way that strains my greedy eyes. I love to pinch them out of clay and this activity brings me great pleasure. The barnacle on the other hand populates surfaces with a multitude of jagged and clustered forms. Duplex, quadraplex, high rise insanity their variation of sizes clustered together suggest family or village. These toothy forms offer me the opportunity to recklessly claw and scrape the clay surface into a satisfying jumble of planes.”

Homer Council on the Arts confers its Arts Awards annually to individuals and businesses who have contributed significantly to the arts in our community. Winners will be announced at the HCOA Annual Meeting on Saturday, July 19th. Please nominate your favorite artists & community members and join us to honor the Arts Awards recipients!

Fill out the nomination form online at https://homerart.org/event/homer-council-on-the-arts-annual-awards/ or stop by the HCOA office and fill out a physical form.

HCOA's Annual meeting will be held on Saturday, July 19th. We will talk about HCOA's past year and our upcoming goals. We invite our community to join us for the meeting and help celebrate the winners of our annual awards.

Stop by the HCOA Gallery Monday - Saturday from 1-5pm to view Color-Texture-Shape-Lines, abstractions by Michelle Michaud. Her works will be on display in the gallery through June 30th!

"Abstract painting gives me the freedom to just paint, without the expectation that the painting should turn out to look a certain way or look like a certain object or scene. For me, abstract art evokes emotion. I love playing with colors, textures, shapes, and lines. The possibilities are endless. Paint what you feel, enjoy what you paint." -Michelle Michaud