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    Denali

    National Park & Preserve Alaska

Artist-in-Residence Program

NEWS

Denali Artist-in-Residence call for artists and writers will be open from May 1 through September 30 for residencies during the summer of 2014. Notification letters will be sent out by December 15. Details are available at APPLY NOW in the menu of navigation options at left.

 

The Artist-in-Residence program at Denali National Park began in 2002, and offers professional artists the opportunity to pursue their work amidst the natural splendors of Denali Park. Please use these pages to explore the history of the program, application information and more.

Two visual artists and one writer were selected from approximately 250 applicants to participate in summer 2013. Stephen Hatcher, Wendy Klemperer, and Kathleen Dean Moore will each have the opportunity to stay at the historic East Fork cabin, where they can look out onto the braided channels of the East Fork River, multi-colored rock formations of Polychrome Mountain, and the snow-capped peaks of the Alaska Range for inspiration. Read more in a park press release.

 
Painting by Deb Bouchette
The Soul of the Wolf Cries (L'âme du loup pleure) by Deborah Bouchette.
 

BRAND NEW to the park collection is The Soul of the Wolf Cries (L'âme du loup pleure) by Deborah Bouchette, an artist-in-residence during summer 2012. The painting will be displayed publicly for the first time this May as the Denali Visitor Center opens for its summer season. The scale of the piece is vast, made of four interconnected wood panels each measuring 36-inches wide and tall.


The Soul of the Wolf Cries (L'âme du loup pleure)
Oil paint on four wood panels

As artist-in-residence, I never felt more mindful of the movements of wild animals: eating the spring earth, drinking the rain and river, migrating, hunting, fleeing, romping, swimming, and shaking the fur coat of winter in the warming spring sun. Feeling like a voyeur called to mind the responsibility of the delicate stewardship we all have in interacting with this ecosystem. I realized all of the place names that I found on the old USGS maps in the East Fork cabin are symbolic of our interventions here. I wove the names into this painting, along with drawings reminiscent of animal movements, and a wolf--the one creature that I did not see during my stay. The title is a line from an old French song that I love.

Deborah Bouchette Artist-in-Residence 2012

 
  • Watch two student documentary video interviews with Deborah Bouchette (Running time 03:39)
    and Trine Bumiller (Running time 01:48), both artists-in-residence during summer 2012


 

The Squirrel: Artist-in-Residence Newsletter

Download "The Squirrel," Denali's Artist-in-Residence newsletter.

Spring, 2011 edition

Fall, 2010 edition

 

Did You Know?

Warming trends may allow woody plants to grow at higher elevations, threatening the fragile, alpine plants already there

Nearly 500 vegetation plots have been installed in Denali, to monitor climate change. Warmer temperatures allow woody plants to grow at higher elevations, invading the fragile and unique plants already in high alpine tundra - and threatening the animals that depend on those specialized plants.