Widely considered a masterpiece, this timeless classic challenges American ideas of power, intolerance, and justice in this partially-fictionalized dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials.

A fabulous night will be had by all!

Deadline: Applications due by March 31, 2025

Eligibility: Open to artists residing in AK, CA, ID, OR, and WA

Background:

Happy Valley is a thriving, multicultural community of 27,500 neighbors. Our beautiful nature areas, safe neighborhoods, and vibrant business community make our town a wonderful place to call home. The Happy Valley Sculpture Garden provides a
mechanism for integrating outdoor art into public spaces, promoting public participation and interaction with artists and artwork, and preserving the local cultural environment and livability. We have expanded this year’s Sculpture Garden displays
with two additional sites at the newly-expanded library. The Happy Valley Public Art Committee seeks up to eight artists to display sculptures in the July 2025 through June 2027 Sculpture Garden Exhibits. Submissions may include proposed, partially, or fully completed sculptures.

Benefits:

•$1,000 honorarium per sculpture exhibited
• Promotion on Webpage, including Artist Profile
• City may promote art as “for sale” during exhibition
• Installation/de-installation services, interpretative signage and photography provided

Equity & Artist Eligibility

The Art Committee seeks to exhibit artwork through inclusive processes. Applications are welcomed from people of all backgrounds, abilities, and disabilities. Students, emerging artists, and artists from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply. This exhibition opportunity is open to artists residing in Alaska, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Artists must transport sculptures to and from the City at their own cost.

How to Apply

To submit your artwork, an online application must be completed through the website CaFE. Up to four
sculptures may be submitted per application. First time users of CaFE will be prompted to create an account.
When developing your application, please provide:
• Artist contact information
• Sculpture information, including sculpture dimensions, base dimensions, weight, materials used, and a short description
• At least one image per sculpture submitted. Images should accurately represent a sculpture in scale, media and color. Images must be in digital form
• Market value of each sculpture
• Optional: Demographic information, Resume/CV A video tutorial is available to assist you in completing an application. In this tutorial, program staff completes a sample application and explains the submission process. The City may assist in language translation and accept non-digital applications by request.

Selection Criteria

Artwork will be selected by the Happy Valley Public Art Committee based on locational context, artistic merit, maintainability, and size/weight criteria. Proposed, partially completed and fully completed artworks may be considered. Accessibility restrictions will be considered in reviewing sculptures.

Technical Specifications

Sculptures must be of suitable scale for outdoor public art and compatible with provided display pads:
• Artwork must be freestanding and cannot exceed 10 ft tall. Sculptures exceeding 1,000 lbs. will be assessed based on City’s ability to install without requiring special equipment.
• Sculptures must require minimal maintenance and withstand the effects of weather, be as resistant as possible to vandalism, and must not impede pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
• Sculptures must be fitted, before delivery, with a ¼-inch (minimum) steel plate - ranging in size of 24 – 28 inches in diameter. Concrete pads, with a 30-inch steel plate for welding sculpture to pad, are provided by the City for the display of each sculpture.

Selection Criteria

Thank you for your application! Submissions will undergo a staff technical review and be paneled by the Art Committee in April. Applicants will be notified of selection the week of April 21, 2025.

• Selected artists will enter into a two-year lease agreement with the City. Artists selected for partial and concept sculptures will also submit a timeline for completion, as well as progress updates. Artwork must be completed by June 1, 2025.
• Sculptures must be ready for exhibition and installation on or about July 1,2025. Artwork that cannot be installed by the installation deadline will be disqualified.
• Artists will deliver sculptures and be present during installation/de-installation. The City will provide a welder and crane to perform installation services. Note: The City reserves the ability to decline art that differs from selected work or does not meet standards of durability, safety, and quality. The City will insure exhibited artwork against damages while on display.

The March 31st BOOMbal has been reschedule to April 7th! All details remain the same.

KCCB rehearses for the April 13, 3pm performance!!

There's no joke here - please join the Board of Directors for the 2025 KAAHC's Annual Meeting!! Snacks, camaraderie, PLUS review of programming, events, successes, art, and challenges of the organization for the past year.

Celebrate the ARTS with us!!!

The Ketchikan Chamber Orchestra rehearses for the Spring 2025 performance!!!!

Creek Street Cabaret
7pm
FREE

Arr, don’t be a landlubber, show yer true colors!

It's time to sing from the belly, with yer whole heart, and yer whole gullet!

Tis the duty o’ all hands in Ketchikan to join in this here maritime tradition, aye!

Captain Sean Dagher be guidin' us through the shanties to sail both calm and stormy seas,
and teachin' us how to belt 'em out!!!

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.

Ketchikan Community Gardens, Outpost Agriculture, Ketchikan Agricultural Producers Association, and Ketchikan Evergreens present at the Tongass Historical Museum from noon to 1pm.

Bring your ukulele and have some fun playing with the group.
Meets on Thursdays at 3:00pm at the Bayside Hotel!

Tap your foot and maybe even join in with this talented musician! Seán Dagher is an active performer, arranger, and composer of music from various classical and folk music traditions: Celtic, Baroque, Medieval, Arabic, Quebecois, and Maritime. He is artistic director and principal arranger of Skye Consort and and is a member of La Nef’s Artistic Commitee. Seán often provides arrangements for other ensembles and artists, including La Mandragore, Pierre Lapointe, Shannon Mercer, I Furiosi, Les Voix Baroques, and Les Voix Humaines. His music has been performed across Canada and the United States. Seán has recorded sea shanties and tavern songs for several video game sound-track in Assassin’s Creed 4 series, by Ubisoft. He has also performed and toured with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal under Maestro Kent Nagano.

Ketchikan Artist Jamie Lee Mitchell creates expressive and delightful, hyper detailed works as a scratch board artist. In her first solo exhibit, Jamie displays her love for animals from all over the world in this exhibit of new works. Please join us for the Opening Reception!

image: "Otter" by Jamie Lee Mitchell

Friday April 4
Opening: 5-7pm

Join us for the opening reception of the annual Alaska Hummingbird Festival Juried Art Show, hosted by the Southeast Alaska Discovery Center, Cape Fox Foundation, and the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau. Enjoy amazing artwork submitted from around Alaska. Cast your vote to determine the winners of the People's Choice Award and discover the winners in Adult Best of Show, Juvenile Best of Show, Adult First Prize, Juvenile First Prize, Adult Honorable Mention, Juvenile Honorable Mention categories.

Do you want to decrease stress, improve your mood, benefit your mental health, restore your attention and reduce fatigue? Join us to discover Forest Bathing - the act of soaking all your senses while walking slowly through the forest. No bubble baths, no water, swimsuits required, just the soothing sounds, sights, smells and calming effect of nature.

Get your Saturday morning bird watching in with local biologists and your friends and neighbors as part of the Alaska Hummingbird Festival.

Have some hot chocolate and enjoys birds on the big screen as part of the Alaska Hummingbird Festival.

Classes for grades 1- 12!! Scholarships are available!!!

Scratchboard Workshop • Main Street Gallery

Saturday, April 5th, 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Artist Jamie-Lee Mitchell teaches techniques used in creating scratchboard art, with an opportunity to create your own! All ages are welcome, youth must be accompanied by an adult.

Please help our Kayhi Drama Kings get to Scotland this summer! Happening THIS Saturday!
We will also have Scottish meat pies, and a traditional Scottish dessert for sale too. Entry fee is $5, but if you just want food, you are welcome to come in for free to purchase it.

If you know a teen (13-18) who loves to sing, we are looking for performers for the karaoke competition THIS Saturday.
1st place winner gets $100! This event is a Kayhi Drama Kings fundraiser and open to the public, so you can come cheer on your teen!