The University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan campus will be closed Monday, July 3 and Tuesday, July 4, 2017 in observation of Independence Day.

Published as a Public Service Announcement by SitNEws.

Listen to Meetings of Alaska’s Education Challenge Committees

Audio conferenced meetings of Alaska’s Education Challenge committees have begun. The public is encouraged to listen to a livestream of meeting audio at akl.tv. Here is the master schedule: https://gov.alaska.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/20170502_PUBLIC-Committee-Meeting-Schedule-Connection-Info.pdf.

More information, including meeting agendas, will be posted to the main webpage at https://gov.alaska.gov/administration-focus/alaskas-education-challenge/. 

The committees are developing recommendations to transform Alaska’s public schools. Governor Bill Walker introduced Alaska’s Education Challenge in his State of the State Address in January. He challenged Alaskans to establish an efficient, sustainable, and comprehensive system to provide an excellent education for every student.

Wearable Artists! Celebrate the 4th with the Arts Council

The Arts Council is walking in the 4th of July parade and you are invited to dig out a piece or to and walk with us!! We want to celebrate wearable art in the community and promote Youth Wearable as we kickstart our next programming season with a focus on wearable art in the schools and in the community. 

Walking in the parade is open to ANYONE!! Borrow an old piece from a friend, mix and match or find a little wearable art in your closet! 

Contact the Arts Council at 225-2211 if you would like to join us! 

Gigglefeet Dance Festival

Deadline to apply: Friday, July 14

The Gigglefeet Dance Festival is a community celebration of dance co-sponsored by the First City Players, Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council, and Ketchikan Theatre Ballet. The mission of the Festival is to strengthen the dance community by:

• Providing performance opportunities for both emerging and established dancers, choreographers, and technical theatre personnel in the greater Ketchikan area;
• Providing a venue for the works of adult dancers and choreographers;
• Providing a supportive environment for a diversity of dance forms, including works that are provocative and challenging;
• Encouraging participation and appreciation of dance, for artists and audiences alike, by presenting a broad variety of dance forms.

Are you a dancer or choreographer that would like to participate in the Gigglefeet Dance Festival?

Click here or on the website below for application and information.

Here and Now

LivingArts: Elders in Arts

In May, KAAAHC wrapped up its final Elders in Arts project, funded by a grant from the Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, Here and Now. Seniors in our community were given disposable cameras and asked to photo document the beauty of their world. Local photographer Kelsey McNeil worked with them to curate the final sixteen images chosen to display.

The project was created to celebrate beauty found in the daily lives of the elders in our community. We have been given the opportunity to look through a lens that is rich in life experience and well-versed in the unfolding of time. The selected images represent our seniors' unique perspective, the "Here and Now". 

A special thank you to ALL our photographers, to the Rendezvous Day Center, Peace Health Long Term Care, and Ketchikan Pioneer Home and to Kelsey McNeil.

Want to see all the photographs? Visit the photo album on our Facebook Page. To view the photographs, you must be a member of Facebook or join.

Summer Wearable smART Classes begin!

There is still time to sign up! 

Wearable Artist Loren McCue will lead a very special wearable workshop!

Saturdays, June 3, 10, 17, 24 & July 1

9:00 am - 11:00 am: 3rd - 6th grade

11:30 am - 1:30 pm 7th - 9th grade

This session is all about Wearable Art! Ketchikan has some amazing wearable artists as we see every year in our annual Wearable Arts Show. Learn to design and make wearable pieces from fabric, nature, scrap art, and upcycled objects. Learn to see the potential for art in everything. Students will be able to walk in the 4th of July parade in their Creations.

Limit 12 students per class! Sign up now, spaces fill up quickly! $110.00 per student.

More Information

Discount for 2017 Family Benefits Card holders & multiple students. Financial Assistance Available or eligible KIC members and through Love in Action.

Music on the Docks starts this week! 

Thursday and Friday, June through August

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Grab your lunch and take to the docks! City of Ketchikan's Music on the Dock celebrates local musical talent. Sunny days we'll be at berth 2 and rainy days we'll be under shelter at at berth 3, come out and support the musicians and enjoy the hustle bustle of the docks in the summer.

Print a schedule here [PDF} and plan your lunch hour around some great live music!

Artists of Ketchikan Invitational

Friday, June 2, 2017
5:00 pm -7:00 pm

Main Street Gallery

Please join us for the Opening Reception of the "Artists of Ketchikan" Invitational Exhibit

Our 2nd Annual "Artists of Ketchikan" is a wonderful sampling of some of the amazing creative talent in our community.

Featuring artwork by Carmel Anderson, Hall Anderson, Rhonda Green, Jim Guenther, Mary Ida Henrikson, Norman Jackson, Danelle Landis, Terry Lieberman, Maida Kelly, Sandy Shepard, Nancy Tietje , Steven Villano, Felix Wong, Evon Zerbetz, and more!

The exhibit will be at the Main Street Gallery June 2nd to July 28th.