Arts and Culture

Juneau as pictured from the Downtown Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2025. (Mari Kanagy/Juneau Empire)

Weekly events guide: Juneau community calendar for Dec. 15-21

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council at JAHC.org for more details on this week’s happenings.

 

Brenda Schwartz-Yeager gestures to her artwork on display at Annie Kaill’s Gallery Gifts and Framing during the 2025 Gallery Walk on Friday, Dec. 5. (Mari Kanagy / Juneau Empire)

Alaska artist splashes nautical charts with sea life

Gallery Walk draws crowds to downtown studios and shops.

 

Michael Wilson of Keet Enterprises offers staffs, salves and more at the Juneau Public Market on Friday, Nov. 28. (Mari Kanagy /Juneau Empire)

Five faces of the Juneau Public Market

Of the more than 175 vendors, the Empire spoke to five across different mediums.

 

Shoppers and vendors mingle along rows of booths in the mall ballroom at Centennial Hall during the Juneau Public Market last year, which returns this year starting Friday, Nov. 28. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

Weekly guide: Community calendar for Nov. 22-28

Visit Juneau Arts and Humanities Council for more details on this week’s happenings.

Shoppers and vendors mingle along rows of booths in the mall ballroom at Centennial Hall during the Juneau Public Market last year, which returns this year starting Friday, Nov. 28. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)
tease

Calendar, Sept. 27-Oct. 1

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
The University of Alaska Southeast, seen here on Monday, May 25, 2020. (Peter Segall | Juneau Empire)

UAS fall lecture series returns

The next installment is “Researching the Mendenhall Outburst Flood: 2025 and Beyond”

The University of Alaska Southeast, seen here on Monday, May 25, 2020. (Peter Segall | Juneau Empire)
tease

Calendar, Sept. 24-27

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
tease

Calendar, Sept. 20-24

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
tease

Calendar, Sept. 10-13

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
tease

Calendar, Sept. 3-7

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
tease

Calendar, Sept. 3-7

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
tease

Calendar, Aug. 30-Sept. 3

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
tease

Community Calendar, Aug. 27-30

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
James Edens looks at 35mm film he had just developed. Photo by By Jonathon Dawe/ Wrangell Sentinel)

Father and son share love for old-school film photography

For photographers like James Edens, film photography never lost its allure

James Edens looks at 35mm film he had just developed. Photo by By Jonathon Dawe/ Wrangell Sentinel)
tease

Calendar, Aug. 20-23

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

tease
c

Community calendar for Aug. 16, 2025

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

c
calendar

Community calendar for Aug. 9, 2025

Submissions to this calendar can be sent to editor@juneauempire.com. They should include the date, time, location, short summary of the event, a website and/or social… Continue reading

calendar
Larisa Koenig, who left Wrangell as a young child in the late 1970s and now lives in Washington state, is the writer for a video production that focuses on a fictional tribe and Indigenous culture, with characters and experiences inspired by her own life. (Courtesy photo)

Writer with Wrangell roots writes for show highlighting Native culture

As a child, Larisa Koenig experienced a vision of her grandfather being mortally injured during a totem raising that she credits with saving him from… Continue reading

Larisa Koenig, who left Wrangell as a young child in the late 1970s and now lives in Washington state, is the writer for a video production that focuses on a fictional tribe and Indigenous culture, with characters and experiences inspired by her own life. (Courtesy photo)
Illustration by Clara Mooney

Woven Peoples and Place: Fireweed jelly with Haida Botanicals

The land guides us in lessons if we lend our eyes and ears to hear it

Illustration by Clara Mooney
Author Naomi Klouda poses for a photo in this undated photograph. (Photo courtesy of Naomi Klouda)

Alaska’s glaciers cataloged in new dictionary

“The Alaska Glacier Dictionary” was published this May by Cardamom Press.

Author Naomi Klouda poses for a photo in this undated photograph. (Photo courtesy of Naomi Klouda)