Arts

Keith Andrews on the way to visit his sculpture on the sea ice in front of Nome.
As soon as the sea ice is stable in front of town, movable shacks and community projects use the ice as a platform. Some are practical such as temporary gold mining camps; some are quirky like the...
TORY TIME— Michaela Goade reads her story Berry Song to a group of kids at the Katirvik Center, on Sunday afternoon.
Award-winning illustrator Michaela Goade visited Nome this week for a meet and greet, a workshop and visits to Nome schools. Kegoayah Kozga Public Library Director Marguerite La Riviere organized...
The Nome Arts Council organized an open mic last Friday at the Mini Convention Center, bringing Nomeites together to celebrate local talent in music and poetry. “Nome shows up for the arts!” said...
THIS IS ME— Makayla Marble was one of seven storytellers who shared a story at last Saturday’s “Tales around the Woodstove” with the theme “This is me
Six young story tellers stepped forward to share a piece of their life in rural Alaska Saturday evening at Tales From Around the Woodstove, a presentation of the Nome Arts Council. The event’s theme...
POET –– Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen read from her book "Roughly for the North" at Katirvik Saturday
Attendees gathered last Saturday at the Katirvik Cultural Center alongside Inupiat poet Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen, author of “Roughly for the North,” for a two-hour poetry workshop led by Ojanen...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY— Bering Strait Jackets performed last Saturday at the Nome Arts Council’s Open Mic Night. The Arts Council celebrates its 45th birthday this year.
There’s an old bumper sticker that says “Live Music Is Best.” Saturday night at the Nome Mini Convention Center the live music lived up to its billing. A lot of great musicians showed up to perform...
HELPING HAND—Warbelow Range’s Kyle Sanna gives Jadelynn Messer tips for playing the violin while Glazier Culley, center, and Gwinevere Dillman observe. Warbelow Range was this year’s guest band during the Nome Summer Music Festival, held last week.
The music sounded a little different during Nome’s annual summer event: for the first time in the history of the concert, the headliner was a Celtic band. Warbelow Range, a quartet from New York City...
SHAKESPEARE IN NOME— Caliban, played by Jake Kenick, breaks free from his bonds as a slave in a Nome Arts Council production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” last weekend.
Nomeites were treated to a rare theatre performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in a production by the Nome Arts Council, under direction of KNOM volunteer Gabe Colombo and with a cast of mostly...
Ricardo Antunes has been eavesdropping on strategic conversations of sea mammals in the northern Bering Sea. This is not new. The Wildlife Conservation Society member has been dipping hydrophones...
TALES FROM AROUND THE WOODSTOVE— Participants of Saturday’s Nome Arts Council event “Tales from Around the Woodstove” were (left to right) musicians Scharre Henry and Alex Roy, story tellers Kirsten Bey, Chandre Szafran, Rick Anderson, Erika Rhodes, John Handeland, Colby Bleicher, the moderator from Arctic Entries, Adem Boeckmann and Devin Tatro.
Would you like to share a seven-minute story about yourself with a big group of people? On Saturday the Nome Arts Council presented “Tales from Around the Woodstove,” an event where seven people...

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