Featured Artist: jewelry designer Carol White
The Bear’s Lair
Senate Mall building (175 S. Franklin St.), first floor, on the right
Local jewelry designer Carol White of Full Cup Studios will be showing her latest designs. Carol creates beautiful, textured pieces featuring mixed metals, including copper, silver, and brass. She donates 10 percent of her sales to the Taylor White Foundation, which works to give young people the tools they need to make good decisions.
Reception: 4:30 — 7 p.m.
Featured artist: Sarah Isto
Alaska State Library
395 Whittier Street
Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
The Alaska State Library is celebrating Alaska Book Week by hosting local author Sarah Isto, who will read from her upcoming memoir in verse, talk about her childhood in Fairbanks, and invite the audience to share what being Alaskan means to them during October First Friday at the Andrew P. Kashevaroff building. The reading will begin at 5 p.m, in the APK Lecture Hall.
Isto is the author of “Good Company: A Mining Family in Fairbanks, Alaska” and “The Fur Farms of Alaska: Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede.” She exhibited her poetry, penned in calligraphy and illustrated by her husband, Gordon Harrison, at KTOO’s broadsides exhibit in May and in a show at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center in November 2014.
The First Friday reception will be sponsored by the Friends of the State Library, Archives, and Museum. The Museum will be open free of charge from 4:30-7 p.m.
Alaska Book Week is an annual celebration of Alaskan authors and their books organized by 49 Writers. For more information, visit http://www.alaskabookweek.com/p/about.html.
After the First Friday festivities, Mark Whitman and Eve Dillingham will perform “Nellie Cashman: A Northern Light,” at the Alaska State Museum beginning at 7 p.m. The event is free but seating is limited so tickets are available in advance at the museum. Limit two tickets per person at pickup.
The performance will be repeated on Saturday, Oct. 8 at 2 p.m.
Empty Chair Project book signing
Mendenhall Valley Public Library
3025 Riverside Drive
Reception: 5:30 — 7 p.m.
Juneau’s Empty Chair Project committee has released the book “Quiet Defiance: Alaska’s Empty Chair Story,” by the project’s co-founder, author Karleen Grummett. The book gives a history of Juneau’s Japanese-American community, their incarceration during World War II, and shows Juneau’s support for their Japanese friends and neighbors during and following the war. It also features personal biographies and artifacts shown during the Juneau-Douglas City Museum’s 2014 exhibit, and as an homage to Juneau and the former City Café, it provides the backstory of how Juneau rallied to build the Empty Chair Memorial.
Please join the Empty Chair committee’s celebration for completion of their final project and receive a complimentary copy of Quiet Defiance: Alaska’s Empty Chair Story, while supplies last, at an open house and book signing either at the valley branch of the Juneau Public Library on First Friday, Oct. 7 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. or downtown at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum on Saturday, Oct. 8 from 10:30 a.m. — noon. The complimentary copies are made possible through the Empty Chair Project and its matching grant from the National Park Service.
Featured artists Lindarae Shearer of Metlakatla and Della Cheney of Kake
Walter Soboleff Building
105 S. Seward St.
Reception: 4:30-8 pm
Sealaska Heritage will feature two artists at the Walter Soboleff Building for First Friday. Tsimshian artist Lindarae Shearer will be visiting from Metlakatla with an array of her abalone and silver jewelry, cedar bark baskets, and skin care products made with devil’s club and other local ingredients. Shearer runs a shop in Metlakatla called the Laughing Berry. Also on Friday, Tlingit and Haida artist Della Cheney of Kake will be demonstrating traditional weaving. Be sure to check out the store for new inventory from the Chilton family, Jennifer Younger, and Preston Singletary.
Featured artist: George Grey
JAHC Gallery
Juneau Arts & Culture Center
Reception: 4:30–7 p.m.
George Grey works in a variety of mediums, including watercolor, acrylic, marker and ink. His works are untitled. To see samples of his work, go to https://canvasarts.org/artists/.
Rie Munoz prints from the private collection of the Estate of James Smith
Changing Tides
Senate mall building
175 S. Franklin Street, Suite 203
Reception: 4:30–7 p.m.
James Smith traveled to Alaska from the 1970s to the early 2000s. His love of Alaska is represented in his collection of Rie Munoz’s artwork. These images are being brought back to Alaska for sale as it was his desire that others would enjoy her work.
Earring and t-shirt release party
Sketch Studio
122 Front Street
Reception: 4 – 7 p.m.
Come check out artist MK MacNaughton’s new earrings. Four paintings transformed into tiny wearable art. Also get first dibs on a new collection of hand-painted t-shirts. Each one is unique. October First Friday marks MK’s 5th Studio Anniversary. Come raise a toast to art!
Christine M. Kleinhenz’ hand-printed block prints
Coppa
917 Glacier Ave. #102
Reception: 5-6 p.m.
Christine Kleinhenz’ recent work is titled “On A Hike and Into The Sea.” She will show carved then hand-printed scenes of her adventures around Juneau over the last year. First printings of each series are framed and hung.
Featured artists: Gloria Cava and Andrea Short
The Canvas Community Art Studio & Gallery
223 Seward St.
Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
This joint show features Gloria Cava and Andrea Short’s abstracts. The two artists work with charcoal, watercolor, and ink.
Featured artists: Rick Clair and Jenna O’Fontenella
Annie Kaill’s
244 Front St.
Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
Rick Clair has new original oil paintings and enhanced photos. Jenna O’Fontenella will have jewelry made of mixed metals and semi-precious stones, rings, earrings and pendants.
First Friday sale
Juneau Artists Gallery
175 S. Franklin St. (first floor of Senate building)
Reception: 4:30-7:30 p.m.
The Juneau Artists Gallery is celebrating a week of “Locals Appreciation Days Sale” Oct. 1 through Oct. 8. Everything is 15 percent off, and some items are up to 75 percent off. Thank you, Juneau! Winter hours for the gallery are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Get your holiday shopping started early at our only storewide sale. Find out more at www.juneauartistsgallery.com.
Live Music by Ryan Cortes and the Funky Bunch
Kindred Post
145 S. Franklin St.
Reception: 4:30-7 p.m.
Juneau musician Ryan Cortes — and the Funky Bunch — will perform. There will also be snacks.
The front and back of “Quiet Defiance: Alaska’s Empty Chair Story.” Copies of the book will be given away at the valley library on First Friday at the Juneau-Douglas city museum the next morning.
One of the paintings that will be on display at Juneau artist MK MacNaughton’s October First Friday show at her gallery, Sketch.
This is one of the paintings avaiable at MK MacNaughton’s First Friday show at her gallery, Sketch.
Juneau artist MK MacNaughton recently began creating earrings, which will be for sale at Sketch on First Friday.
