Experience Words of Advice During Gallery Walk Tomorrow!

There is a great article in the Empire today introducing our art exhibit that opens tomorrow: Two local artists learn to run a Heidelberg Letterpress for new art show.

Please join us tomorrow to celebrate this great work by Sarah Conarro and Giselle Stone during Gallery Walk. Sarah and Giselle used the Original Heidelberg letterpress in our Airport Boulevard shop to create text-based prints that are accented with colorful washes and hand-drawn art. You will be able to take one off the wall if it calls to you -- just bring $7 and swap out your money for their art.

Our walls will be filled with Words of Advice and our space will be filled with exciting happenings. Perseverance Theatre will be running A Christmas Carol trivia (with prizes!), KINY will be broadcasting live, Sitka author Will Swagel's book The Bight Before Christmas will be for sale, and the Alaska Litho 2012 poster calendars will be available for free.

As always, join us for great treats and beverages as you enjoy the local art during Gallery Walk. RSVP now!

Registration is Still Open for Friday's Advanced Topics in Social Media

Our second social media seminar in Juneau is this Friday, and registration is still open. Reserve your seat now! If you can't make it to the seminar in Juneau, we are also offering the same seminar live online through Webex on December 14th.

This seminar is for you if you already have one or more social media accounts, interact regularly, and want to move on to the next level. During this seminar we will cover:

• Monitoring and measurement tools
• Advanced social media features
• Social media reports
• Cross-media campaigns
• Organic and paid advertising

We'll have a short guest presentation by local attorney Lael Harrison from Faulkner Banfield touching on legal issues to be aware of as you delve deeper into social media. PLUS take part in a special presentation of the features available in a high-end online marketing, social media, and PR monitoring and measurement tool.

Jenny has a master’s degree in media psychology and will graduate with her PhD this month. She has small business experience combined with professional and academic knowledge of social media.

Announcing the 2012 Photo Contest Winners

As the holiday season gets into full swing, we're happy to announce the winners of our 2012 digital photo contest. The competition was fierce, and the entries were all inspiring.

Rising above the rest and claiming the 2012 Grand Prize is Morning Breath by Ron Gile.

Subtly colored and exploding with detail, this haunting image of a surfacing orca exhaling ties perfectly into our theme Inspire. Not only does inspire mean to enliven or affect emotionally, the root of the word inspire is "to breathe." This truly inspirational image will be featured on our poster calendar, and Ron will receive a cash prize of $250!

Stop in to our downtown office on Seward Street during next week's Gallery Walk to pick up your copy of the calendar hot off the presses.

We had so many amazing photos, even the public had a hard time choosing the top 12. You came through for us, and helped us select these great photos for the desktop calendar:

Ice cave by Laurent Dick, Winter totems by Ivan Simonek, South Sawyer Glacier by Ron Gile, Coastal Entropy by Scott Balovich, Even bears take time to smell the flowers in July by John Hyde, Beaver Creek by Ron Gile, Denali by Andy Romanoff, Plane by Tyson Voelckers, Morning Breath by Ron Gile, Double Breach: a mother orca and her young take to the air off Point Retreat by John Hyde, Sitka Homecoming by Linda Wilson, and Morning Flight by Barry Stuart.

Congratulations to all of our winning photographers!

And thank you for stopping in to vote on the photo contest during November's Art Walk. Please join us again on Friday, December 2nd, for Gallery Walk where you will have a chance to see the new art exhibit Words of Advice by Sarah Conarro and Giselle Stone. Sarah and Giselle have been using the Original Heidelberg letterpress in our Airport Boulevard shop to create text-based prints that they are accenting with colorful washes and hand-drawn art.

Our walls will be filled with Words of Advice and our space will be filled with exciting happenings. We'll have Perseverance Theatre selling--and giving away--tickets to A Christmas Carol, KINY broadcasting live, Sitka author Will Swagel's book The Bight Before Christmas for sale, and the 2012 poster calendars available.

As always, join us for great treats and beverages as you enjoy the local art during Gallery Walk. RSVP now!