Illustrating Alaska Artists Making Children's Books (Online)
Ketchikan artist Evon Zerbetz, along with Jim Fowler, Michaela Goade, and Mitchell Watley, will be featured in this Alaska State Museum exhibit!!! The physical exhibit will be on display at the State Museum February 5th 4:30 pm through April 3, 2021. Yippee!!!!

A new exhibit at the State Museum explores the colorful and intriguing process of illustrating children’s books. The exhibit, curated by Sarah Asper-Smith, highlights the process of four different Alaskan illustrators: Jim Fowler, Evon Zerbetz, Michaela Goade, and Mitchell Watley. Each has a unique perspective on creating illustrations for a children’s book.

The opening of Illustrating Alaska: Artists Making Children’s Books is online February 5, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at https://lam.alaska.gov/illustrating-alaska. The physical exhibit will be on display at the State Museum from February 5th through April 3, 2021.

Illustrating Alaska is presented by Exhibit AK and the Alaska State Museum, with support from: the Alaska State Libraries, Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum; Alaska Litho; Sealaska Heritage Institute - Baby Raven Reads program; Alaska Robotics; Lucid Reverie; Rainy Retreat bookshop; and Hearthside Books

Ketchikan's Ray Troll has a virtual and in-person exhibit "Crusin' the Fossel Coastline" at the Burke Museum, Seattle Wa
Enjoy a 13-minute long interview video with a sneak peek into his studio here in Ketchikan learn about his creative process

Open Mic
Featuring the talents of Cullen McCormick
$5 Cover, Must be 21 years of age or accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Open Call to Any and ALL!  To celebrate National Poetry Month, Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council is creating a collective poetry exhibit!  April 2nd - 23rd!! Please submit 3 words, a noun, adjective, and a verb for our April exhibit.

How can you contribute to the Patchwork Poetry exhibit? It’s simple! Submit 3 words below. We are asking for everyone (and we do mean EVERYONE) to submit a noun, an adjective/adverb, and a verb. The deadline to Submit is March 29, 2021!!!!

What are we going to do with these words? 
For this answer, you’ll have to wait,
But with your help, it shall be great!
Share this call to all you know
And word submissions will grow and grow!
You’ve never seen an exhibit like this before!
And once it’s done, you’ll beg for more!

This is a Family-Friendly event is open to all, KAAHC reserves the right to omit language inappropriate to all audiences.

Art Business members of the Arts Council are invited to be part of the first-ever Wearable Art Walk! Marketing includes notices to our mailing list of over 700 households/businesses, posters around town, PSA’s, print ads, website and social media updates, and flyers featuring event details and highlighting participating businesses. If you are an Art Business that would like to participate in the Wearable Art Walk, please call the Arts Council today!!! The deadline to participate in marketing is March 29.

Please fill out the submission form below.

The initiative supports artists facing dire financial emergencies in the pandemic with $5,000 grants. Please note: if you earlier received assistance through Artist Relief, you may not apply again. More information can be found at the link below.
FAQ: https://www.artistrelief.org/faq
Artist Relief was organized by The Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MAP Fund, National YoungArts Foundation, and United States Artists (we are a supporter and founder of the latter).
Americans for the Arts has updated this survey to identify and address the needs of artists and creative workers:
#AKartists

Self-described paleo nerds Ray Troll and David Strassman discuss paleontology with experts around the nation in their podcast. New podcasts every Wednesday!

Each week at approximately 8:20 am KRBD hosts the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council for their weekly report on arts and humanities in Ketchikan and the surrounding area. Get a synopsis of the local music scene, performances, Gallery exhibits, pop-ups, and Calls to artists. The Arts Report often features special guests from the Ketchikan Theatre Ballet, Artists, and Curators. Tune in weekly to KRBD 105.3 FM Ketchikan, Metlakatla and Saxman, 107.1 FM North Ketchikan, Ward Cove, and Ketchikan, 101.7: Craig, 90.7: North Point Higgins, 90.1: Mountain Point, Hydaburg, Klawock, and Thorne Bay.
If you would like your event to be aired in the Arts Report please let us know by the Thursday prior.

Attention Music Lovers!

Here is a link to our Livestream band concert on April 1, at 6 pm. The jazz band will kick everything off! Enjoy. The concert program is attached! You can also watch the concert after the fact. :)
https://youtu.be/9GJ7F0z0DmY

Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a visionary artist or artist team to create a unique artwork
inside or in proximity to the new Plant Sciences Building at Washington State University in
Pullman, commissioned through ArtsWA’s Art in Public Places program. The artwork may be
interior or exterior, or both.

An open call exhibit celebrating National Poetry Month! April 2 - 23
An in-person exhibit opening Friday, April 2nd from 2:00 - 7:00 pm at the Main Street Gallery
Online read the collective poem on the KAAHC website at www.ketchikanarts.org

Live music from Dave Rubin, Hannah Kerick, and Chazz Gist