Visual Arts 2003 Juneau Ken DeRoux currently lives and paints in Burien, WA, just south of Seattle. After retiring from the Alaska State Museum in 2006, he and his wife, Sybil, spent two years traveling and living in Istanbul and in southern France. In 2009, they settled in Burien, and after the usual repairs, remodeling and adjustments Ken is back to painting, and doing some photo and video … Read More

Literary Arts 2002 Homer Since the time of my Boochever fellowship, Nancy Lord has published three books of literary nonfiction--Beluga Days (2004), Rock Water Wild (2009), and Early Warming (2011.)  She was also selected as the Alaska Writer Laureate from 2008-10 and enjoyed the opportunity to promote Alaska writing and writers throughout the state and attend a national gathering of state … Read More

Performing Arts 2002 Juneau Roblin Gray Davis is a versatile performer, director and teacher of innovative theatre based in Juneau, Alaska. He is a founding member of Strange Attractor Theatre Co. which specializes in collaboratively devised physical performance that challenges the popular conception of live theatre.  Roblin also acts and directs with Perseverance Theatre, with recent credits … Read More

Performing Arts 2002 Fairbanks Environmental Composer John Luther Adams was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award from the Heinz Family Foundation in 2011 “for his musical compositions that invite us to hear the whole world as music.” Adams’s latest recording, Four Thousand Holes, has received widespread critical acclaim. The Farthest Place, the first critical study of Adams’s music is … Read More

Literary Arts 2002 Homer Eva Saulitis taught in the low-residency MFA program at UAA and at the Kachemak Bay campus of UAA in Homer.  She continued her work as a field biologist each summer, studying the killer whales of Prince William Sound, Alaska.  In spring of 2010, Eva was diagnosed and treated for early stage breast cancer, and she has chronicled this journey through writing on a blog … Read More