The way Jack London saw it, Alaska was a great white slate, open, empty, blank. What might a person do about that? One answer might be to stand in the cabin door, slack-jawed, looking at all that openness and be too overwhelmed to make a single mark on it. The other way might be to go back inside, turn up the oil lamp and write. Once folks began to see it that way, the world made of blankness began to fill up. Some filled it up by looking out the cabin window and getting down the wonder of all they saw. Others looked all over the place, in other times, other places, even deep inside themselves.

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Guest Curators - read their statements:
Steve Bouta, Developing Invention
James Brashear, Ceramics
Jean Carlo, Native Arts
Wanda Chin, Multimedia
Peggy Ferguson, Performing Arts
Jennifer Jolis, Food Products
Len Kamerling, Filmmaking
John Manthei, Wood
Barry McWayne, Commercial Photography
David Mollett, Visual Applied Arts
Connie Page, Wood
Todd Sherman, Visual Applied Arts
Glen Simpson, Metal
Frank Soos, Writing
Suzanne Summerville, Ph.D., Music
Penny Wakefield, Fiber Works

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