ANCFirstFriday

Get • 🍪 It’s that time of year again! With the snow melted, our youth are gearing up for their First-Friday Bake Sales & Open House at AYC! These fundraisers will occur on the first Friday of each month through September.

These youth-run fundraisers support the AYC scholarship fund, which provides graduating seniors scholarship and covers travel to the annual United Youth Courts of Alaska Conference.

Join is in ONE WEEK on Friday, May 1st, from 4-7 pm at the AYC office (838 W 4th Ave) for delicious homemade treats and handmade treasures!

We also are looking for additional donations for the sale, including homemade goodies, healthy snacks, home-grown veggies, and handcrafted art! Members and clients can receive 2 hours for donating, and members of the public can be provided a tax form for their donation. Scan the QR code or visit https://tinyurl.com/AYCApril2026 to let us know you are bringing items!

Get • .ceramics Join us for First Friday at Turnagain Ceramics! This event includes a free community pottery throw and a reception with the featured artists!
Join us for Featured Firsts at Turnagain Ceramics! Each first Friday, we hold an opening reception for a different local ceramic artist, featuring a free community throw! Our front gallery is a treasure trove of pottery and ceramic art that our studio members lovingly handcraft. From plates, mugs, and bowls to jewelry and sculpture, our gallery has it all!

This May, our featured artists are Erin Cockreham and Jasmine Woodland!

Get • Join us for May First Friday where we will have several fantastic artists for you to stop by and meet.

Terri Atwell of Beadwitched will be on hand with her exquisite beaded jewelry and more.

Terri’s beautiful jewelry and enamel pins are always a favorite at Tiny Gallery.

Join us Friday, May 1 from 5-8 pm!

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Get • Join us for May First Friday where we will have several fantastic artists for you to stop by and meet.

Ed Atwell of On the Way Home will be here with his fantastic wildlife photography.

Join us Friday, May 1 from 5-8 pm!

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Get • Join us for May First Friday where we will have several fantastic artists for you to stop by and meet including Julia and Asa Belarde of Artful Jules.

Well known at Tiny Gallery for their fantastic bags and accessories, Julia and Asa also make some wonderful jewelry.

Join us Friday, May 1 from 5-8 pm!

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Our eye-catching Collections offer the Perfect Pair for every style seeker. Dive into our Gallery and discover your next Signature Piece! We will be OPEN this Friday, May 1st from 5pm-8pm for ANCFirstFriday

Get • Join us Friday, May 1 from 5-8 PM for the opening of our May exhibitions! The artists - Kristin Link, Jennifer Moss, and Ron Viol - will all be there ✨

𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗬
𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 | 𝗝𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘀

We live in landscapes continuously shaped by geologic forces that are built upon memory. Through time, every moment on the land is collected in specks and pieces. Secrets are embedded in layers that build or sink and are made of plant and animal, dust and sunlight, wind and rain. Visual patterns emerge or are buried, like thoughts and memories and dreams that we animals have in our brief moment on earth. Symmetry, meanders, cracks, and other textures appear. They both describe order and are conduits for recollection. Unspoken languages and histories reside in these patterns. We love them for their beauty and we use them for our purposes. We mine and shape these land memories stored as peat, oil, metal and gas. We share collective memories of bright sun on the mountains, reflections in a lake, the sound of rocks tumbling down an incline, or the color of dirt. We see the shapes of this place and we are part of this place, this living and wild landscape. We will return to the dust that becomes the landforms here too. We will be absorbed into the patterns of moments in the land itself. All we are, our experience and our memories from our time forever joining with those of the land, intertwined and building this place we call home, together in a living landscape of memory.

Jennifer Moss, 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺, synthetic polymer paints and mediums, tailored paper, digital press print, 18 x 18 inches

Get • Join us Friday, May 1 from 5-8 PM for the opening of our May exhibitions! The artists - Kristin Link, Jennifer Moss, and Ron Viol - will all be there ✨

𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗛 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗬
𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 | 𝗥𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹

We are living on the edge of dramatic changes, whether it is the unstable climate, social / political unrest, pervasive surveillance or the rapid rise of Al. The world we know is transforming into something new.

These digital images express emotions stirred by this moment of change. The images, with weeping eyes, insects, machinery, electronic circuitry and fractured faces reflect the unsettling surreal beauty of our modern condition.

Ron Viol, 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥, dgital collage created with Adobe Fresco, Procreate, Lightroom, and Photoshop, 24 x 18 inches

Get • Join us Friday, May 1 from 5-8 PM for the opening of our May exhibitions! The artists - Kristin Link, Jennifer Moss, and Ron Viol - will all be there ✨

𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛 𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗬
𝗗𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 | 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸

This exhibit is about what happens when we go outside, pay attention, and build a practice around what we find.

Loose daily diary sketches layer contour drawing with wet-on-wet watercolor washes to capture moods, weather, and the passage of time. Botanical studies track what plants are doing at different times of year. I return to the same plant across weeks and seasons, watching it change. My notes leave room for questions, research, and thinking out loud.

The nature studies of plants, animals, and landscapes in this exhibit were developed through years of teaching field sketching across Alaska. In April 2026, that practice became a book: 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘚𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, published by Timber Press.

It’s a joy to share this work with you, and to invite you into a sketching practice of your own. The world is better when we slow down, pay attention, and learn to find some love for what surrounds us.

Kristin Link, 𝘔𝘢𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴, watercolor and pen, 12 x 16 inches