Arts

The Alutiiq Museum is the recipient of two new works of art by local artists, including a rattle which will be the first of its kind in the museum’s permanent collection.  Funds for the purchases came from a Rasmuson Foundation grant designed to support living, practicing Alaska artists. The first is a modern interpretation of a traditional puffin beak rattle …

The Kodiak Alutiiq /Sugpiaq Repatriation Commission has been working for years to recover artifacts and human remains of the community’s ancestors. As part of that effort, a new park in downtown Kodiak is dedicated to ancestors uprooted from their homeland. More than a thousand metal salmon cutouts, each representing a repatriated Alutiiq ancestor, cover the inside of the archway at …

  Museum will be closed to public for approximately six months   There is a big moving project taking place downtown but it is unlikely you will notice it. The Baranov Museum this week began the laborious and exacting task of clearing the downstairs for a long-awaited and much-needed renovation. The move itself is expected to take about a week …

  Back in the 1800s, Kodiak had a booming industry exporting ice to San Francisco. Ships would sail north to Kodiak, load up with ice cut from local lakes and ponds, and return to the much warmer waters of San Francisco Bay. All to bring ice to Californians before modern refrigeration. One of those ice ships was the three-masted Russian …

  “Almost, Maine” tells the story of a remote mythical town in the far reaches of Maine. It combines love, drama, comedy and even the northern lights. The play is the first high school production directed by Jared Griffin, known for his previous junior high productions. The romantic comedy features 16 high school actors. Griffin said because so many good …

Local artist Bonnie Dillard stands beside her newest piece of art — KMXT’s satellite dish. Photo by Pam Foreman.   If you’ve been anywhere near the KMXT studios lately, you no doubt have seen the new paint job on the station’s satellite dish. It’s pretty hard to miss, actually, given that it’s anything but your basic white. Instead it has …

(Photo by J. Stephen Conn / Flickr) Daysha Eaton/KMXT Kodiak The MJ Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded the Baranov Museum in Kodiak a $205,000 grant for a redesign of its permanent exhibits and a facility upgrade. Sarah Harrington is Executive Director of the Kodiak Historical Society and Baranov Museum. She says the money will be used to better care for …

Online registration for the Bear Crawl has closed but you can register today at the station (620 Egan Way) until 7pm. Registration opens tomorrow at Kodiak Island Raceway at 8:30am. We recommend avoiding the lines tomorrow at stopping by the station today!  

One of the items up for auction, a framed original watercolor by Gretchen Hancock, a garden and Spruce Cape scene. Courtesy of the Kodiak Arts Council Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Arts Council’s annual Arts and Adventure auction has a fitting literary theme this year for the Kodiak Archipelago: Treasure Island. Barbara Russell, chairman of the auction committee, explains a large …

Competitors stand at one station during the race and complete knots. Kayla Desroches/KMXT Kayla Desroches/KMXT A competition Saturday pitted fisherman against fisherman in a set of tasks which included knot-tying, hook-throwing, and survival suit-donning. The event created a fun spectacle on the last day of ComFish and demonstrated some of the skills even a greenhorn deckhand needs day to day. …