The greater portion of people living in Fairbanks do not have a trash or recycling service, which came as a surprise to me. I came from a city where we had a large bin that all of our trash went into and the bin would get picked up by a dump truck once a week. The convenience of trash service makes one not really think too much about where their trash goes, you would just put it at the end of your driveway and within a day it was gone.

“We are just twenty-year-old women sitting here together writing about our past, the future, and what it holds for us.”

Successful art transports you to a waking dream state (without the risks and hangovers of other hallucinogens). The Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra succeeds so well at this transportation that it would take an artist more talented than I to describe it, but I’ll try.

The October 2023 64th Parallel Juried Exhibition at the Bear Art Gallery features a wide variety of work by local Fairbanks artists.