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You're invited to celebrate two concurrent solo exhibitions by Alaska artists.Join us for the First Friday opening reception for June in the Bear Gallery — featuring Horse by Aldona Jonaitis and Out of Another by Sara Tabbert — on Friday, June 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park.
This June brings together two bodies of work by Alaska artists, each rooted in a lifelong relationship to material, memory, and making. Presented in celebration of Fairbanks Arts Association's 60th anniversary year, June in the Bear Gallery offers two distinct artistic perspectives on attention, transformation, and the long arc of creative practice.
About the artists:
Aldona Jonaitis is a longtime art historian who returned to making art at 70, when she discovered pastels and rekindled a childhood love of drawing horses. Horse gathers her recent pastel work in colors ranging from neutral to vivid — some horses peacefully grazing, others running, rearing, and jumping.
Sara Tabbert is a Fairbanks-based printmaker and mixed-media artist whose love of woodblock printing has evolved into carved, painted wooden panels and large-scale public art commissions throughout Alaska. Some of the work in Out of Another was completed during her recent National Artist residency at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. She currently leads printmaking workshops at The Folk School, where she is the print shop manager. Learn more at saratabbert.com.
Join Fairbanks Arts for a free public Artist Talk with Aldona Jonaitis on Thursday, June 11, at 7:00 pm in the Blue Room on the third floor of the Centennial Center.
🗓 On view: June 5–27, 2026
🎉 Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 5:00–7:00 pm
🎤 Artist Talk with Aldona Jonaitis: Thursday, June 11, 7:00 pm, Blue Room
⏰ Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday, noon–6:00 pm
📍 Bear Gallery, Alaska Centennial Center for the Arts (3rd Floor), Pioneer Park, 2300 Airport Way, Fairbanks, Alaska
Admission is free and open to all. Come see the work. Meet the artists. Celebrate sixty years of the arts in Fairbanks.
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2300 Airport Way, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Alaska 99701
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