Ketchikan's
19th Annual Wearable Art & Fashion Show
Pictured: Galaxy 49 in Red by David Walker and modeled by Caity
Koch.
Front Page Photo by John Gabriel
Story by Sharon Lint
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Ketchikan: Ketchikan's
19th Annual Wearable Art & Runway Fashion Show; "Swing
Shift" Plays to Sold-Out Crowds By Sharon Lint - For
the past nineteen years, residents of Ketchikan have watched
Art walk, skip, strut, slink, pad, march and dance down a brightly
lit runway. This year the theme was "Swing Shift" and
the event, put on by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council,
was held at the Ted Ferry Civic Center on February 4, 5 and 6th.
Wearable Art is rumored to
have emerged as a distinct art form sometime in the sixties,
although Sara Lawson, Executive Director of the Arts Council,
would disagree. She believes the origins of Wearable Art are
rooted much further back, beginning as "ornamentation of
the human body time immemorial."
Yet whether it is a newly discovered
genre or as old as humankind, it is obviously here to stay. Perhaps
its popularity is due to the fact that it allows the human body
to become a gallery for the artists' vision of humor, philosophy,
fantasy and truth. Or maybe it is so attractive to us because
it not only opens the eyes of the viewer to a different perception
of our world, but even more, opens the eyes of the artist as
well. - More...
Tuesday - February 08, 2005
Ketchikan: National
Consumer Protection Week Focuses on Identity Theft; Alaska Dept.
of Law and AARP Chapters Launch Tandem Efforts to Educate and
Protect Alaskans - Representatives from the AARP's national
consumer protection league will conduct seminars open to the
public in four Alaska cities this week including a seminar scheduled
for today in Ketchikan. The seminars will be to educate members
of the public on identity theft and a number of other topics
ranging from investment scams to payday lending. - More...
Tuesday - February 08, 2005
Alaska: Renkes
agrees to remain in position for transition - Alaska Governor
Frank Murkowsi announced this morning that he has as has asked
Gregg Renkes to remain in his position at Attorney General until
Friday, February 11 to allow for a smooth transition. - More...
Tuesday - February 08, 2005
 Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... The University
of Alaska stands to gain more than a half-million acres of state
and federal land under a pair of bills introduced by Governor
Frank Murkowski and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Of the state
lands slated to be transferred, 40,000 acres are located in Southeast
Alaska. Deanna Garrison reports.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday - February 08, 2005
Alaska: Listen to this KRBD story... Support may
be building for a House Bill that failed to make it out of committee
last week. It has to do with the state's raw fish tax program,
which is collected by the state and redistributed to communities.
Jay Marble has this report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Tuesday - February 08, 2005
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