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

THE WARMTH OF JABU: A GEOLOGY & CARTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP

Friday June 20th | 2pm to 3:30pm

$30 adults/$25 for all Pratt Museum members

Celebrate the summer solstice season at the Pratt with a talk about the heritage of the nudech’ghela, the common coastal agate, and its roles in local geology and the cultural symbolism of the Homer area’s indigenous people. This discussion will be led by local tribal artist and Nichił cultural expert Argent Kvasnikoff who will examine the agate and local geology to explore how they inform the cultural heritage of the lower Kenai Peninsula. Guests will be invited to participate in an interpretive activity and to share their own personal accounts of finding agates in a group discussion. Guests are also encouraged to wear local agate colors, orange and yellow!

Homer, AK - Bunnell Arts by Air presents Chris Needham at Bunnell and broadcast live on KBBI AM 890 Friday, June 20, 2025 at 7pm. Join our live studio audience! In-person audiences must be seated at 6:45pm.
Chris Needham is a Homer, Alaska singer‑songwriter known for his resonant voice, casual intensity, and clear storytelling. Armed with a semi‑hollow electric guitar and a looping pedal, he layers rhythm and melody to give both original songs and familiar folk‑rock favorites a fresh, hometown feel. His shows play like relaxed conversations: a few chords, a true tale, and a chorus everyone can sing along with. He’s as quick with a gear tip or a joke as with a tune.

Beginning as a Covid-relief program in 2020 to support musicians and community at a time when concerts and gatherings were not possible, Bunnell Arts by Air features Alaska and visiting musicians, and is partially funded by the Alaska State Council on the Arts Community Arts Development grant and a TourWest grant from Creative West (formerly WESTAF - Western States Arts Federation).

If you are interested in sponsoring Bunnell Arts By Air for one concert or one year on KBBI AM 890, K201A0 88.1 FM in Seward, please contact brianna@bunnellarts.org.

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

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.

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.