Just the details: Aug. First Friday
UAS Bookstore by the Bay
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11798 Glacier Hwy.
For their first first Friday, the University of Alaska Southeast Bookstore by the Bay will host Douglas painter, Elise Tomlinson's "Island of Misfit Paintings". Tomlinson's show will feature both some of her new and older work including nudes in nature, portraits, flowers, landscapes and more abstract pieces.
Some of the pieces in the show have never been exhibited before. "For every exhibit there is usually one painting I decide to leave out because it doesn't quite "fit" with the rest of the show. It might be due to its colors, theme or size ... but through no fault of its own it often ends up in storage without ever having been shown," Tomlinson said. "It's kind of liberating to have a show where anything goes."
Tomlinson earned her BFA in printmaking and oil painting at UAA and currently works as an associate professor of library & information science at UAS.
"Island of Misfit Paintings" will be at the UAS Bookstore through August. An opening reception will be held Friday, Aug. 7 from 4 to 7 p.m.
Baranof Hotel
127 N. Franklin St.
The Baranof Hotel has teamed up with artists represented by the Juneau Artists Gallery to offer bi-monthly exhibits. Beginning the first Friday in August, several current and former members of the Co-op will be exhibiting works larger than space allows at the Juneau Artists Gallery in the Baranof room facing Franklin Street.
This month work by Mark Kelly, Sharron Lombaugh, David Riccio, Mark Vinsel, Sue Craft and Michelle Morrell will be featured at the Baranof. The show will include a variety of style and forms including photographs, abstract art, oil paintings and prints.
An opening reception will be held Friday, Aug. 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. at the Baranof Hotel. For more information contact Sharron Lobaugh at 789-5028.
JAHC
350 Whittier St.
Two local women artists, Jane Terry and Fumi Matsumoto, used recycled tea bags, fish bones and scales, clay, 100-year-old bamboo and the Sunday Juneau Empire among other things to create their mixed-media art works of "Crossroads: Traditions in Transition."
Terry grew up in the northeastern U.S. while Matsumoto was born in Japan and raised in California. The two women both went to University of California Berkeley, but first met at the University of Alaska Southeast. Since the mid-90s, Terry and Matsumoto have shared their interest in art and Southeast Alaskan enviroment.
For "Crossroads", Terry explored her interest in subsistence through handmade paper using fibers from Southeast plants. Matsumoto explored an interest in recycled materials and "found objects" on Juneau's beaches and forests.
There is an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The show will run through Aug. 31, 2009.
The Canvas Community ArtStudio and Gallery
223 Seward
The Canvas will host "Indigenous Art" by local carver, painter and printmaker Arthur Johnson in August. An opening reception is on Friday, Aug. 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Juneau Artist Gallery
175 S. Franklin St.
Watercolor painter, Mark Vinsel, will be featured at the Juneau Artists Gallery through August.
Vinsel's impressionist-style work, was mostly painted on location around Juneau. It includes paintings of the Gastineau Channel, Mendenhall Glacier, Berners Bay, fishing vessels and a ferry ride to Pelican. Vinsel makes his own frames and the paintings will feature frames of Alaska yellow cedar and Sitka spruce.
An opening reception will be held Friday, Aug. 7 from 5 to 9 p.m. For more information, contact Mark Vinsel at 586-3424.
Silverbow
120 Second St.
Barbara Lydon will show her creations inspired by the outdoor world in "Just for the Halibuts" in the Back Room at the Silverbow.
"My artwork tends to be whimsical and humorous; a reflection of my personality," Lydon said in an artist's statement. "Part of my summer is spent working for the Forest Service as a Wilderness Ranger. For this job, my primary form of transportation is a sea kayak, so I am always on the water's surface. I also like to experience what lies below the ocean. At low tides, my husband and I will often explore the inner tidal slimes, goos and creepie crawlies, mystified by the way they shake, pucker and squirt."
Ruby Room
Emporium Mall
The Ruby Room will host "Awake in Alaska" featuring photography by Brandon Hauser and multimedia by Charity Green and friends.
A reception will be held Friday, Aug. 7 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, contact Charity Green at 321-0929 or charity_green@hotmail.com.
The Plant People
224 Seward St.
The Plant People will feature the owner's work this August. Owner, Teresa Busch, artist assistant, Kendra Lien and Jennifer Burton will display their work "The Fashionable Fig."
Pieces include a wedding dress, surfer shorts, bikini and hats made from flax, Apsidistra, Monstera and other local foliage.
For more information, call Teresa Busch at 209-6613.
Annie Kaills
244 Front St.
Annie Kaills will feature handmade fish sculptures and block prints by Karen Beason.
The show will include some of Beason's new work, including "Fabulous Fabric Fish Friends" and "KB's Peace Ravens" - life and double lifesized ravens carrying a peace sign, a berry and a leaf in their mouth that are part of a project support by the JAHC and City of Juneau.
Beason's work includes linoleum prints such as a Raven on Fern paper and a Salmon on Seaweed paper and handmade paper mache fish and seastars created from dyed recucled paper pulp.
An opening reception will be held Friday, Aug. 7 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
Friends of the Alaska State Museum Store
124 Seward St.
New photographs by Patrice Helmer will be on display this month at the Friends of the Alaska State Museum store. Her black-and-white photographs of places and residences from Alaska, British Columbia, Massachusetts and elsewhere will be shown in "North American."
An opening reception will be held Friday, Aug. 7.
Continuing Exhibits
State Museum
395 Whittier St.
The museum will be open for First Friday and is free from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. This is a chance for local residents to experience the museum's two major temporary summer exhibitions: Da-ka-xeen Mehner's solo show "Self Constructions" and the Yupik exhibit "The Way We Genuniely Live," both on display through Oct 18, as well as a newly installed permanent science display, "Science on a Sphere."
Juneau-Douglas Museum
Fourth and Main
"Hoop Time: Gastineau Channel Basketball Through the Years" will be on display through November 21.