News Briefs

Photo courtesy of Tara Parker Movie star Harrison Ford dined with his fiancee Calista Flockhart Sunday night, July 13, at the Double Musky Inn Restaurant in Girdwood. Ford took time for a photo with the Musky staff. The couple toured Girdwood Sunday through Tuesday and stayed at Alyeska Resort.

Girdwood student graduates from Dartmouth
Katherine Alexa Cronk of Girdwood graduated with the Dartmouth College class of 2008, one of more than 1,000 students receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees at the Spring 2008 Commencement exercises. Cronk majored in Art History and Italian.
Cronk is the daughter of Riley J. Cronk and Sarah A. Haynes-Cronk.

Volunteer workday scheduled for new KEUL facility
Glacier City Radio KEUL will be holding a volunteer work day at the new radio station location in the former library building by Little Bears on Saturday, July 19 at 12 p.m. Projects will include roofing, sheet rock work and painting. Getting this new location up and running will facilitate the station to once again host late night DJs.
Anyone is welcome to participate and all volunteer help is greatly appreciated. There will be a BBQ picnic lunch and mothers on site to watch any children needing supervision.
Contact Julia Dykstra at 907-440-9910 for more information.

SPCA mobile spay and neuter van in Girdwood
The Alaska SPCA Mobile Spay and Neuter van is offering low to no cost spay and neuter surgeries for cats only in Girdwood Saturday, July 26. Surgeries are by appointment only. Please call 230-2171 for an appointment. Openings fill up fast, call soon to secure your spot

Registration now open for fine arts camp
Thalia Wilkinson has been hard at work over the last several months inviting a variety of artists to come to Girdwood for this year’s 22nd Annual Girdwood Fine Arts Camp, to be held July 28-August 8.
“It’s going to be great,” says Wilkinson. “It’s another great art experience waiting to happen!”
Activities for the Primary Arts Camp for ages 5-8 will include silk painting, wool felting, puppetry, Egyptian paste, glass, and more under the supervision of professional artists, university professors, university students, and local adults such as Jim Kaiser, Steve Gordon, Katie Cronk, Steve Godfrey and Ruth Kircher, to name a few.
Primary session will be held at Challenge Alaska from 10 a.m. until noon, July 28-Aug. 8. There is a $200 camp fee
Intermediate Arts Camp for older children ages 8-18 offers the opportunity to explore different drawing techniques and tools in handmade sketchbooks made with the help of Jimmy Riordan, a camp assistant since he graduated from arts camp himself and went on to study art in New York, N.Y. He has spent the last semester in London learning bookbinding techniques and printmaking methods. Printmaking and bookbinding will be a focus for the Intermediate Camp this year, with Service High art teacher Brigid Bourque’s altered book ideas. Participants will also be making a stained glass piece with Jim Kaiser, drawing with a Colorado art instructor, making batik T-shirts with Hope artist, Bianca Durrant, and using great new art supplies including like water-based oil pastels.
Intermediate session will be held at the Girdwood Community Center from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., July 28-August 8. There is a $300 camp fee.
There are two intensive courses to choose from for older students ages 12-18. Students who are ready to explore Photoshop and work in the area of Digital Photography will spend four hours a day for two weeks focusing on developing new artistic images in digital design. Participants will be using new Macbooks on loan from Highland Tech in Anchorage. Chris Cup from Anchorage will be instructing.
This Digital Photography Intensive will be held at the Girdwood Community Center from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. July 28-Aug. and has a $300 course fee.
Timeless Large-Scale Sculpture, an intensive course in monument building, is for students ready to be a part of the artistic process, wherever that leads them. They will be designing and building a collaborative large-scale sculpture with New York artist Andrew Willgress who is the featured guest artist this year. He has worked with groups of students using PVC piping and staged enormous mixed media productions. It is sure to be a very “happening” intensive.
The monumental sculpture intensive course will be held at Glacier City Hall from 1 p.m. until 5 pm. July 28-August 8. There is a $300.00 camp fee.
If you are interested in any of these Art camp sessions, call 783-2267 to register. Registration is on-going until camp starts. Mark your calendars now for the community Art Show and finale set for the last day of camp, August 8 at 6:30 PM.
In addition to these courses, three adult workshops will also be offered this year including basic bookbinding techniques with Jimmy Riordan, July 29-31 from 6-8 p.m., Photoshop with Kelly Saloka, August 4-7 from 6-8 p.m., and glass bead-making with Darby Andrews, date TBA.
For more information, or to register for an adult workshop, call Thalia Wilkinson 783-1965.

Photographer captures Girdwood in portraits
Laura Domela, sister of Jason “Fiddler” Domela of Girdwood and a professional photographer currently working primarily in digital format, is working on a project involving everyone her brother knows in Girdwood.
The nearly 300 subjects to date are being shot in a temporary studio set up in a new storage room in Chair Five through July 16. Previews of the unedited portraits, showing the incredible range of Girdwood’s residents, are available for viewing online at www.lauradomela.com. Login to Client Access using the password “girdwood.”
Prints will be available to anyone who wants a print of their own photograph, with the final version of the project taking shape as a photography book.
Domela was born in Anchorage and moved to Southern California at the age of five. She currently resides in Portland, OR with her husband, Kevin.

Little Bears Playhouse Fundraiser
Little Bears Playhouse is having a fundraising kick off event for our new facility this Thursday, July 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the proposed new site behind the fire hall. We plan to stake out the corners of the new site and have some information and drawings available for people to review, followed by a potluck.