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Actualizing Illumination
Photography by Samantha Geuss
December 4–31, 2009 • Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Samantha has grown up enjoying the unique freedom and wildness of Alaska, and our state continues to inspire her
art-making and lifestyle. She works primarily in the mediums of photography, graphic design, and apparel design. Her work is inspired by the particular joie de vivre of capturing beauty in unexpected places, and by the simultaneous exploration of oneself and the outside world. The themes of her artwork resonate with others who are compelled to explore the world “out there”, and to follow their wanderlust into the woods or across time zones. She is the co-founder of Babes in the Woods LLC, a mobile gallery that represents Alaskan Artists. More artwork and information are available at: alderpatchart.com
Fur, Fin & Feathers
Wildlife watercolor impressions by V Rae
First Friday at Terra Bella Bakery•Café
November 6, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
V Rae grew up in the wilderness of Western Montana and moved to Alaska in 1991, where she fell in love with the land, sea and people. After a friend suggested she “Paint big!”, her work exploded into huge, colorful, free-spirited expressions. The Fur, Fins & Feathers collection includes signed, numbered, museum-quality giclée prints of original watercolors. Her work, and information about pet portrait commissions are on her website, vraeart.com.
ALASKA 50 - Photographs by JaKa
Celebrating 50 Years of Alaska’s Statehood: The Fine Way
Proceeds from this show benefit KAKM/NPR
First Friday at Terra Bella Bakery•Café
October 2, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
Alaska’s 50th year of Statehood inspires me to present 50 of my images taken since my arrival to Alaska in 2007. There has been no shortage of photographic inspiration. Whether I was attending a dance performance by Alaska Natives, taking a walk in the park near my house or hiking on the Matanuska Glacier, I have tried to frame the unique and picturesque world I have witnessed and enjoyed here in Alaska.
– Jaka (Javid Kamali) www.jakaphotos.com
2009 Events
I want to play connect the dots with your beauty marks
Where your kisses won't fade so fast
These Days I'm Unpredictable
Shelbi Lynne Laughlin
September at
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Born and raised in the Mat-Su Valley, Shelbi Lynne grew up with a fervor for the outdoors and backwoodsian Alaskan adventure. These things, along with an irrational fear of cats, makes being a full-time artist her only real option.
www.pullindandelions.com
Michael Walsh, acoustic blues and Kenneth Hart, poetry reading
Thursday, August 20 • 7:30pm
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Kenneth Hart received an MFA from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He teaches writing at New York University, works in the family roofing business, and gives readings and workshops for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. His poems have been published in Arts & Letters, North American Review,Mississippi Review,Barrow Street, The Bellingham Review,Paterson Literary Review, and Poet Lore, and his book reviews appear regularly in Journal of New Jersey Poets. He is the 2007 co-winner of the Allen Ginsberg Award, and the recipient of the 2008 editor's prize for New Ohio Review. His poem "Keep America Beautiful" was read by Garrison Keillor on Public Radio's The Writer's Almanac in 2009. He lives in Long Valley, NJ, and spends his summers in Alaska. Hart's manuscript Uh Oh Time was selected by Mark Jarman as winner of the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry.
Michael Walsh started The Goat Family band in San Francisco ten years ago, exploring innovative and old style jugband on the washtub bass, washboard, guitars, inventive percussion instruments and jug. He left San Francisco for Alaska six years ago and found a solo voice on the resonator guitar playing old-time-style blues originals. Walsh also paints, makes films, photographs and installation pieces. He just finished recording his first album. Walsh lives in Homer.
By Two Concert Series
Evan Phillips &
Amy Lou
Thursday, August 27 • 7:30pm
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
By Two is a celebration of collaborations between Alaskan singer-songwriters. Each concert features two talented performers playing solo sets of original work, then collaborating for a set at the end. These will be unique performances—for both the audience
and the artists—at Terra Bella’s
intimate venue in South Anchorage.
Click to read more about the Two Concert Series performers
Tickets: $10
Limited Seating!
Advance Tickets
at Terra Bella
Bakery-Café • 601 E. Dimond at Old Seward
or Benson and C drive-through
Or by phone: 562-2259
The By Two Concert Series is supported by Huffman Music Center, 12201 Industry Way, Suite D3, Anchorage
Cloth Art = Art Cloth
Mary Hertert & Kathy Harte
August at Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Mary Hertert asks “When does the cloth get to stand by itself as art?” The answer is the finished fabric before it is cut.
Mary knows cloth and especially knows Art Cloth having produced it for several years through Color Creek-Fiber Art. Produced one layer at a time beginning with white, Mary then builds additional layers according to theme and color. Silk, polyester or cotton—it’s all Art Cloth when it’s finished. That doesn’t mean it can’t be cut….
Kathy Harte enjoys the contemporary art quilt genre and is passionate about “playing” with threads. Harte’s current body of work reflects her unique perspective and the intertwining of
liturgical and secular expressions.
 Worms & Worm Composting
Wriggle into a seat and learn about:
• Worm bins–purchased or homemade
• Setting up your bin
• What kind of worms will work?
• What to feed them?
• What to do if…
• How to harvest the compost
Instructor: Ellen Vande Visse, goodearthgardenschool.com
Sign up to wriggle into a space—call 907.745.0758 or e-mail: information goodearthgardenschool.com
It’s About Time!
First Friday at Terra Bella Bakery•Café (and throughout the month of July)
July 3, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
Quilt Artists Debra Hardman, Kathy Harte and Judy Wedemeyer present twenty-four delightful fiber and mixed-media creative expressions “about time”. Time is wide open to personal interpretation—for the artist and viewer alike. Serious, whimsical, wordplay, and quotes in three-dimensional form, intended to entertain, motivate, and reflect, will tweak your emotions and inspire you to ‘take time’ to enjoy life. It’s about time!
By Two Concert Series
Robin Hopper & Emily Kurn
Thursday, June 25 • 7:30pm
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Esther Golton &
Will H. Johnson
Thursday, July 23 • 7:30pm
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Evan Phillips &
Amy Lou
Thursday, August 27 • 7:30pm
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
By Two is a celebration of collaborations between Alaskan singer-songwriters. Each concert features two talented performers playing solo sets of original work, then collaborating for a set at the end. These will be unique performances—for both the audience
and the artists—at Terra Bella’s
intimate venue in South Anchorage.
Click to read more about the Two Concert Series performers
Tickets: $10
Limited Seating!
Advance Tickets
at Terra Bella
Bakery-Café • 601 E. Dimond at Old Seward
or Benson and C drive-through
Or by phone: 562-2259
The By Two Concert Series is supported by Huffman Music Center, 12201 Industry Way, Suite D3, Anchorage
Wednesday, June 10 • Doors open at 6:00pm
Terra Bella Bakery•Café
Film starts at 6:30pm
Mona Vie Tasting &
Speaker Tina Harmon to follow!
"Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine, And Thy Medicine Be Thy Food." - Hippocrates
That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in this brave new documentary film brought to you by Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch.
‘Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health. Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation.
In a personal quest of discovery James and Laurentine together with a film crew and the editorial and production expertise of Enzo Tedeschi have set out on an independent mission to uncover the wholesome truth. The filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.
‘Food Matters' seeks to uncover the business of disease and at the same time explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of the illness. With the premise of the film being: access to solid information helps people invariably make better choices for their health.
The ‘Food Matters' duo have independently funded the film from start to finish in order to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world. Food Matters.
foodmatters.tv
First Friday at Terra Bella Bakery•Café
June 5, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
Bill Sabo
Mixed-Media Watercolor Collages and Mixed-Media Watercolor/Graphite Drawings
Bill Sabo’s artwork for this show is autobiographical; it contains symbols and images referencing his experiences, interests and other artwork. The collages involve a process he coined as “Hunter/Gatherer”. He collects or creates several objects, then combines them to create each piece, sometimes with new parts leftover for future pieces. Bill has done several pieces in which animals teach inanimate objects how to perform simple or mystical acts like “a salmon teaching a coffee cup how to swim” or “a bear teaching a teapot how to go through a wall”. Bill has been a working artist in Anchorage since the mid ‘60s and retired from teaching art in 2002. He has spent the past few winters in St. Petersburg, Florida making pottery, sculpture and tile, as well as painting, fishing and hanging out with the shorebirds.
Learn about the 9 Essential Oils in the Everyday Oils Kit and the difference between Young Living Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils and perfume-grade essential oils. You will also be introduced to NingXia Red, an antioxidant drink that is Organic, made with whole berries, sweetened with Agave so it has a low glycemic index and is safe for diabetics, and has a 4:1 carb to protein ratio which is great for athletes!
Due to the recent Swine Flu, we will also be discussing natural ways to support your immune system and will have some Flu & Cold prevention kits on hand for purchase.
Bring yourself and get entered in the drawing to win a FREE Young Living product. Bring a friend and get an extra entry for every friend you bring!
First Friday at Terra Bella Bakery•Café
May 1, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
Moments
Photography by Richard Vollertsen pdf
We live on a remarkable blue dot in the universe, and will not
pass this way again. With the jet-fueled thrust of our daily lives,
we pass quickly by innumerable unique moments where light,
structure, pattern, and context quietly collide.
Photography is a powerful process that forces you to slow down
and appreciate such moments. With photography’s purposeful
intention, the most mundane of subjects can offer up an intimate
and universal meaning. I hope you enjoy these moments.
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First Friday at Terra Bella Café•Bakery • April 3, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
Pathways
Photography by Anne Mirow Vollertsen pdf
Anne’s photographs ended up at Terra Bella not because of her drive to become a well-known photographer, or to make a difference in this world, but because of a school project.As soon as she put a camera in her hands and aimed it at something simple, suddenly she could make it anything she wanted. Something so small was suddenly so big.
First Friday at Terra Bella Café•Bakery • March 6, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
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AlaskaWILD
AlaskaWILD is an annual juried photo exhibit sponsored by the Alaska Society of Outdoor and Nature Photographers. Its main goals are to celebrate the unique beauty and wildness of Alaska and to promote local amateur and professional photographers. It is the only state wide juried exhibition solely dedicated to nature photography. Unlike many juried exhibits, the images in this exhibit are available for sale.
For more information, visit www.asonp.org
First Friday • February 6, 2009 • 5:30–8pm
Tall Round Things: Wood, Ceramics,
Metal
and
Natural Abstractions:
Photographs of the Colorado Plateau, Wood Turnings of Spalted Wood
click for PDF postcard
Tall Round Things: Wood, Ceramics, Metal
As a long-time Alaskan who has hung around the fringes of our local art community for many years, I marvel at the ability of men and women to take an ordinary clump of clay or a block of wood and transform it into something of lasting interest, and I’ve been inspired by them. I am fortunate to have been able to display work at the No Big Heads exhibits at UAA and to have had several pieces selected for exhibit in Earth, Fire, and Fiber shows at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. I confess to having developed an affinity for “tall, round” vessels because they are like old friends who grow on me with time and ask no more than to have their own quiet niche and a view for recognition.
-Doug Morris
Natural Abstractions: Photographs of the Colorado Plateau
While exploring parts of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona and Utah in the late 1970’s, I became enamored with the grand vistas of sand, rock, color, and light. Mother Nature becomes the ultimate artist in this country, using tools; such as, sedimentation, lithification, uplifting, erosion, weathering, and time. From initially photographing the grand vistas, I soon began to focus on abstractions within the larger scenes. In addition to shapes, patterns, form, and texture, I became aware of the essential component–quality of light. Under certain conditions, the sandstone rocks and cliffs in this area give off an incredible, seemingly internal glow, which usually lasts only for minutes. I hope that by viewing these photographs, you will experience some of the excitement I felt when releasing the shutter.
-Nelson Gingerich
Natural Abstractions: Wood Turnings of Spalted Wood
A retired science and photography teacher, I have been a wood turner for ten years. While photographing throughout the Southwest, I became fascinated with abstract natural forms found within the landscape. That interest transferred to my work with the shapes and design found in dead and partially decaying aspen trees in the Kaibab National Forest near the Grand Canyon North Rim. These shapes and designs are produced naturally by organisms, such as, insects and fungi, which begin the process of breaking down wood fibers in dead trees, a process known as spalting. Each piece of log begins to show off its unique colors and potential shapes as the turning process continues. No two pieces are ever the same, leading to the mystery of what the next piece of wood will hold. In this show, I have also included a number of spalted Alaska birch and birch burls. In some instances, I use wood dyes to exaggerate the shapes and forms laid out by the microscopic fungi. By using a gloss finish, I pull the viewer’s eyes below the surface of the piece.
-Nelson Gingerich
Terra Bella Bakery•Café Announces
Eco-Seminars, 2009
With Ellen Vande Visse
sustainable agriculture instructor, Good Earth Garden School
and author of Ask Mother Nature, a Conscious Gardener’s Guide
download the flier
Make & Take an Indoor Greens Garden
Grow Your Very Own Baby Greens
When: Tuesday, February 17 and Wednesday, February 18
10 am–Noon
Two identical, repeated classes. Room for 10 participants each.
$25 for materials and instruction. Register early.
Shopping for Foods You Can Trust
When: Wed, February 25. Time: 4-6pm (come hungry)
Cost: $16 or $12 ea for 3 or more signing up together.
Free Movie! Saturday Matinee
Come watch and then discuss the film:
Cancer, Nutrition, and Healing
When: Saturday, March 21
Time: 4 – 6 pm. Cost: free!
Past Events: 2008
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