Performing Arts 2009 Homer and Anchorage Yngvil is a composer, musician, theatre director and performer, writer, educator and community activist. She was born in Oslo, Norway but left to study theatre and music in London, UK. Yngvil came to Alaska on a theatre tour in 2002 and decided to stay. She ran several youth theatre companies before she decided to focus on her own projects - including … Read More
Archives for September 2011
Schatzie Schaefers
Performing Arts 2009 Anchorage The Connie Boochever Fellowship gave Schatzie Schaefers the opportunity to seek professional mentorship in developing a new full length play for the stage. She worked with Bay Area dramaturg Jayne Wenger throughout the entire process of writing VASHON. Through regular emails, Skype chats, and a reading retreat held in San Francisco, Jayne gave Schatzie guidance in … Read More
Joan Kane
Connie Boochever Award, Literary Arts, 2009 Alaska Literary Award, 2014 Anchorage Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife and Hyperboreal. She has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, the USA Projects Creative Vision Award, an American Book Award, the Alaska Literary Award, and fellowships from the Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska State Council … Read More
Anne Coray
Literary Arts 2009 Port Alsworth, Alaska When she’s not canning salmon, butchering moose, gardening, building a new storage shed, or splitting wood, Anne Coray is at work on a novel set in a fictional community in remote, southwest Alaska. She is the author of three poetry collections: Bone Strings, A Measure’s Hush, and Violet Transparent. Anne also coauthored Lake Clark National Park and … Read More
DJ “Buzz” Schwall
Visual Arts 2007 Anchorage Please visit Buzz's website at http://www.buzzoplex.net/. … Read More
Asia Freeman
Visual Arts 2007 Homer A lifelong Alaskan, Asia Freeman paints landscapes inspired by Alaska's volatile coastal weather. The Boochever Fellowship encouraged her to move farther into herself and the inner territory of imagination and discovery. Asia's recent body of work examines vast, ethereal, invented landscapes. Islands rise like mirages from mist-shrouded shorelines, light bursts through … Read More
Elizabeth Eero Irving
Visual Arts 2007 Fairbanks www.elizabetheeroirving.com … Read More
Annie Duffy
Visual Arts 2007 Fairbanks Annie’s mixed media paintings and sculptures explore issues of identity, culture, chemistry, and biology, specifically in terms of change and migration. Recently she has been spending more and more time thinking about Alaska and the North, and what those ideas mean to her identity and artwork. Often we think about the marks humans make on the landscape, but Annie is … Read More
Cinthia Ritchie
Literary Arts 2005 Anchorage www.cinthiaritchie.com … Read More
Stefan Hakenberg
Performing Arts 2005 Juneau www.stefanhakenberg.com. … Read More