First Fridays-Part Two

Each First Friday is unique at Upstairs Studio-every month there are new things to admire. December we hosted a young and talented Anchorage Artist-Jade Ariah. She showed her whimsical watercolors and acrylics as well as some wearable art in the form of silk scarves. If you missed her at the Studio-be sure and look for her name and she is planning more shows at other venues around Anchorage. We were proud to be her first choice for her debut Art Show-thanks Jade.

Amy Lou Hettinger performed-she has a great voice, certainly another Anchorage talent to make it a point to listen too. She debuted her first CD this summer, "of roots and of wings".  Find out more about her and listen to some clips at  Amy Lou Music

 

The Studio Artists have been busy creating, painting and generally making very great artsy items. You can find fused glass  and leather jewelry and other  functional items by 3 Dog Designs/Julie Rabung.

Circulo Design/Zaynab Falconer has an assortment of leather pins, felted items and some encaustic paintings in her recent works. Kim Royce is continually adding to her designs in precious metal clay jewelry.  Erin Osinkosky has been reclaiming frames-she is currently adding mirrors inside to make some truly one of a kind mirrors, she also has a new puppet set "The Devils Red Shoes". Sioux Blackledge is always painting-her show included watercolors of Alaskan scenes in vibrant happy colors, as well as her prints and jewelry. Bull's Eye Studio/Katie Way has been selling her polymer clay plug covers literally off our walls-we can not keep our plugs covered. She also has functional kitchen tools, business card holders,  and jewelry. Darla Myers displayed some new larger works of Fall Trees in Encaustic and Oil, along with greeting cards and small print plaques and some smaller original paintings.

 

We also kicked off our next Artist Challenge-"Prayer Flags". They will be displayed on January 7 at our First Friday Open House.

Artist’s Challenge:  Create a prayer flag—a symbol of your hopes, wishes or prayers for yourself or others for the new year.   If you wish, include a word or phrase describing your prayer.  Write your name on the flag so we know it’s yours.  Drop it by the studio through the door mail slot anytime or bring it in on January 7, 2011.

Questions? Want a flag to create?  Contact Erin at prayer flag information for more information.

"Grow" prayer flag.