Community Calendar

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

Free Weekly Teen Art Space Hosted by Drue Smith, artist & licensed clinical therapist at who specializes in art therapy. Teens 12-18 are invited the the downstairs HCOA Studio Space, bring your own project or use the general art materials available. Snacks provided! Wednesdays from 3-5pm, rsvp online at homerart.org/event/free-teen-art-space/

This series is presented in partnership with South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services (the Center) and supported by the "Arts, Health, and Well-being in Alaska Communities" program of the Alaska State Council on the Arts and aims to be a space that fosters self-expression and builds emotional awareness, promoting mental well-being in a supportive, peer driven environment.

Free workshop sponsored by Storyknife Writers Retreat.
An Arc by Any Other Name: U.S. fiction and nonfiction writers have been trained to follow “universal” rules of story structure: The Aristotelian plot arc. Three-Act Structure. The Hero’s Journey. In recent years, diverse voices in prose writing and craft have called for expanding these norms. “it’s about time that individual agency stops dominating how we think about plot or even causality. If we canonize E. M. Forster and Aristotle, it should be as representatives of one tradition among many,” Matthew Salesses writes in Craft in the Real World. In this workshop for prose writers of all levels, we deconstruct both western and non-western story structures and storytelling conventions to better understand how our own work might draw from, and fit into, a literal world of stories. We’ll read stories and watch short films as examples, and experiment with both generative writing and restructuring.

Angie Chuang is an associate professor of journalism at University of Colorado Boulder who writes and teaches a wide range of nonfiction forms.

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

Juneteenth - A Celebration of Freedom for All

Thursday June 19th from 4-5pm

Join us at the Pratt for an evening of storytelling with Homer’s Gogo Skywalker Payne to celebrate this historic day of freedom.

Gogo Skywalker Payne is a nationally acclaimed storyteller, spiritual life coach, and performing artist whose voice has echoed from the DuSable Museum to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. A lifelong teller of transformative truths, she weaves ancestral wisdom, activism, and artistry into stories that heal, awaken, and liberate. With a B.A. in Communications/Storytelling earned summa cum laude, Gogo is a force of courage, compassion, and cultural celebration.

This event is in collaboration with Homer Pride.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $5. 

Pier One Youth Theatre presents

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson
adapted by Jules Eckert Goodman

Directed by Kathleen Gustafson

The classic swashbuckling story of adventure on the high seas as brought to life by the Pier One Youth Theatre Production Camp.

Show dates:
Thursday, 6/19
Friday, 6/20
Saturday, 6/21
Thursday, 6/26
Friday, 6/27
Saturday, 6/28

All show times at 7pm

At the Pier One Theatre on the Homer Spit