BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20231114T040000Z DTEND:20231114T050000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Artist Talk with Amy Reisland-Speer DESCRIPTION:Join Amy and Fairbanks Arts for an artist talk where Amy will touch on her past history and her motives behind painting. She will discuss how her process of mixed media came to be\, how she executes it\, her subjects and why they inspire her.\n\n\n\nAmy Reisland-Speer was born in Fairbanks and lived in Tanana for the first fifteen years of her life where she was inspired to become an artist by the environment she saw around her and strongly influenced by wildlife and the Athabaskan culture. \n\n\n\nAmy was encouraged by her parents and art teachers to continue growing and exploring her creative side with different mediums. She decided that paint was the best medium for her to visually express her love of the world around her. She uses oils\, acrylics\, egg tempera\, and mixed media incorporated into her paintings. Amy studied at UAF and graduated with a BA in Oil Painting in 2000. \n\n\n\nIn 2013\, Amy received the Fairbanks Arts Association and Interior Alaska Mayor's Youth Arts Award for working with children in the Denali Borough as well as the village of Tanana\, where she and the students painted a mural for the school gym. Amy has held a lecture at the UAF Extension Center\, OLLI\, has hosted many paint nights in Healy and Anderson and has instructed several students with private painting lessons. \n\n\n\n\n\n"Alaska\, its mountains\, animals\, birds\, insects\, and flowers\n\nhave always inspired my creative side. My paintings and\n\nmixed media art help interpret how I perceive Alaska and\n\nwhat I hold dear. I love embellishing my paintings with\n\nmetal leaf\, found objects\, torn papers\, vintage music\n\npaper\, and stenciling.\n\n\n\nI enjoy developing the process of how my mixed media\n\nevolves. After making several small sketches and settling\n\non a basic plan\, I then paint the background a mottled\n\ncolor\, followed by applying stencils and then gluing torn\n\npapers and metal leaf in random areas. Finally\, I paint the\n\nmain subject\, followed by a thick layer of lacquer to seal\n\nthe canvas.\n\n\n\nMixed media has made my paintings more diverse than\n\njust paint. It allows me the freedom to play and explore\n\ntextures\, colors\, and objects that I have collected over the\n\nyears in hopes to utilize them in my art somehow.\n\n\n\nAfter positive comments\, sales\, and successful art shows\,\n\nalong with this opportunity to show my mixed media art at\n\nBear Gallery\, I decided to continue producing more of\n\nthese pieces. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I\n\nenjoy creating them. I hope my work successfully exhibits\n\nmy feelings for my subjects and you\, the viewer\, have more\n\nunderstanding of how I view the world around me."\n\n\n\n-Amy Reisland-Speer\n\n\n\nAmy's work can be seen in the Bear Gallery in her exhibition "Fur\, Feathers and Petals" to the Metal on view Friday\, November 3rd to Saturday\, November 25\, 2023\, during gallery hours from 12-6 p.m.\, located at 2300 Airport Way in Fairbanks\, AK.\n\n\n\nThis event is FREE and open to the public thanks to our generous donors and sponsors! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join Amy and Fairbanks Arts for an artist talk where Amy will touch on her past history and her motives behind painting. \;She will discuss how her process of mixed media came to be\, how she executes it\, her subjects and why they inspire her.
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\nAmy Reisland-Speer was born in Fairbanks and lived in Tanana for the first fifteen years of her life where she was inspired to become an artist by the environment she saw around her and strongly influenced by wildlife and the Athabaskan culture. \;
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\nAmy was encouraged by her parents and art teachers to continue growing and exploring her creative side with different mediums. She decided that paint was the best medium for her to visually express her love of the world around her. She uses oils\, acrylics\, egg tempera\, and mixed media incorporated into her paintings. Amy studied at UAF and graduated with a BA \; in Oil Painting in 2000. \;
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\nIn 2013\, Amy received the Fairbanks Arts Association and Interior Alaska Mayor'\;s Youth Arts Award for working with children in the Denali Borough as well as the village of Tanana\, where she and the students painted a mural for the school gym. Amy has held a lecture at the UAF Extension Center\, OLLI\, has hosted many paint nights in Healy and Anderson and has instructed several students with private painting lessons. \;
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\n&ldquo\;Alaska\, its mountains\, animals\, birds\, insects\, and flowers
\nhave always inspired my creative side. My paintings and
\nmixed media art help interpret how I perceive Alaska and
\nwhat I hold dear. I love embellishing my paintings with
\nmetal leaf\, found objects\, torn papers\, vintage music
\npaper\, and stenciling.
\n
\nI enjoy developing the process of how my mixed media
\nevolves. After making several small sketches and settling
\non a basic plan\, I then paint the background a mottled
\ncolor\, followed by applying stencils and then gluing torn
\npapers and metal leaf in random areas. Finally\, I paint the
\nmain subject\, followed by a thick layer of lacquer to seal
\nthe canvas.
\n
\nMixed media has made my paintings more diverse than
\njust paint. It allows me the freedom to play and explore
\ntextures\, colors\, and objects that I have collected over the
\nyears in hopes to utilize them in my art somehow.
\n
\nAfter positive comments\, sales\, and successful art shows\,
\nalong with this opportunity to show my mixed media art at
\nBear Gallery\, I decided to continue producing more of
\nthese pieces. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I
\nenjoy creating them. I hope my work successfully exhibits
\nmy feelings for my subjects and you\, the viewer\, have more
\nunderstanding of how I view the world around me.&rdquo\;
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\n-Amy Reisland-Speer
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\nAmy&rsquo\;s work can be seen in the Bear Gallery in her exhibition &ldquo\;Fur\, Feathers and Petals&rdquo\; to the Metal on view Friday\, November 3rd to Saturday\, November 25\, 2023\, during gallery hours from 12-6 p.m.\, located at 2300 Airport Way in Fairbanks\, AK.
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\nThis event is FREE and open to the public thanks to our generous donors and sponsors! LOCATION:2300 Airport Way in Fairbanks\, AK UID:e.106.31254 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260502T210123Z URL:http://fairbankschamber.smartcms.site/events/details/artist-talk-with-amy-reisland-speer-31254 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR