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Four artists using very different mediums have been selected
for this year’s Artist-in-Residence program at Denali National
Park and Preserve. The artists are Eric Meyer, from Arlington Heights,
Illinois; Ree Nancarrow of Denali Park, Alaska; Anna Marie Pavlik
from Austin, Texas and Sandy Stolle from Seward, Alaska. They were
selected from over fifty applicants by a six-person panel comprised
of artists, art supporters and National Park Service staff.
Meyer is a wildlife artist who works with oils. He has painted mostly
fall landscapes on his previous trips to Denali, and is looking
forward to expanding his work to include the lush, green landscapes
of summer. He also hopes to be fortunate enough to see and paint
wolves, a species that he has not depicted on canvas.
Nancarrow is a quilt artist who has lived in the Denali Park area
for over forty years. She chose quilting as her medium of choice
in the early 1990’s because it provided an enormous variety
of scale, color and texture. She dyes or paints most of her fabrics,
but also stamps, stencils, silk-screens and elaborately quilts them.
She is looking forward to reacquainting herself with the park and
getting a feel for how to best represent it.
Pavlik creates prints by using foam plates that have been indented
with pens, pointed tools or textured objects. She uses her commitment
to print making to encourage others to let nature be a presence
in their lives. Her residency will let her experience a landscape
with a minimum amount of human impact and a range of terrain for
the first time. She is also interested in exploring the plant and
animal adaptations that aid survival during the severe winters and
short summers of Interior Alaska.
Stolle is a wood sculptor who lived in the bush of the Northwest
Alaska for twelve years before relocating to the rainforest, mountains
and waters of Seward a decade and a half ago. She gains inspiration
from the power and beauty of Alaskan environments, and spending
time in Denali will offer her new vistas, experiences and a much
needed time for reflection.
“We are excited to provide artists of this caliber with a venue
for passing on their experience in Denali to others through their
various mediums,” said Superintendent Paul Anderson. “The
work they create from their time in the park will be an inspiration
for visitors now and in the decades to come.”
Each artist will be in the park for up to 10 days between June and
September. During their residency they stay in the historic East
Fork cabin at Mile 43 on the Park Road. They will each present at
least one program for visitors and will donate a piece of their
original artwork to the park.
This is the fifth year of the Artist-in-Residence program at Denali
National Park and Preserve. Artists who have participated in previous
summers include Diane Bywaters from Wisconsin, Kevin Muente from
Kentucky, Patricia Savage from North Carolina and Alaskans Linda
Beach, Rachelle Dowdy, David Moffett, John and Jona Van Zyle, Rebecca
Voris, Rod Weagant, and Kesler Woodward.
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