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Creative Currents: ‘Elevated and updated’ with Jay Simmons

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
After a busy 2024, Anchorage R&B singer Jay Simmons is currently working on his fourth album, and has some exciting projects for the new year.
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Creative Currents: ‘On the tie dye journey’ with Mo Dart Art

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
For Mo Dart, tie dye isn’t just his go-to fashion choice, it’s a lifestyle. “My mother used to make fun of me because I would never let her throw trash away, because I always needed to use it to create...
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Creative Currents: Becoming ‘a lifetime learner’ with AMW. Arts

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
Fairbanks artist, illustrator and creative nonfiction writer Addie M. Willsrud is constantly inspired by the natural world.
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Creative Currents: ‘Down the rabbit hole’ with PØSTERCHILD

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
It has been 10 years since Taylor Mapes’ love of producing music overtook his obsession of downhill skiing. Mapes, known as PØSTERCHILD, says his passion growing up was all on ski racing. Every weekend, he would go to Girdwood to...
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Creative Currents: Seeking inspiration with Natalie Rei

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
Palmer-based muralist, watercolor artist and printmaker Natalie Rei has a new artistic process.
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Creative Currents: Making ‘The Space We Breathe’

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
Following on the tails of a week-long residency earlier this summer, artists Danielle Stickman and Emily Sullivan are sharing pieces created while in Norway on Arnøya, Sápmi.
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Creative Currents: Exploring ‘the bittersweet in-betweens’ in ‘Saltwater Swans’

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Two Anchorage-based journalists have an exhibition opening at Akela Space this month exploring the first three decades of life: “girlhood, adolescence, and our 20s.”
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Creative Currents: Staying ‘surreal and free’ with Jessi Saiki

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
For multidisciplinary artist Jessi Saiki, reflecting on their art is a walk down memory lane.
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Creative Currents: ‘Chasing a passion’ with AK Tie Dye

Arts and Culture Sam Davenport -
After attending a street fair in Anchorage in her early 20s, Jen Luton “immediately became obsessed” with tie-dye. “I have always been attracted to creative endeavors, not necessarily good at all of them,” Luton said. “When I tried tie-dye for...
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Creative Currents: Making new genres with Wasabi

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Iñupiaq, Koyukon and Paiute musician Wasabi is about to release her first album, “Alaskamiuŋuruŋa.”
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