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Xtra Tuf # 5.75. The Installation Zine
12 September - 16 September, 2008
The skiff of the Thelma C, the last year she fished salmon, 1992. Courtesy the artist
Opening Thursday 11 September, 6 - 8pm. All welcome.
Moe Bowstern has been a sometime deckhand since 1986, fishing mostly aboard small boats and skiffs around Kodiak Island, Alaska. For ten years she has chronicled her adventures in her ‘fanzines’ Xtra Tuf and Second Set Out. In the precarious straddle of these two worlds of fishing and art, she brings to light the songs and stories of America's vanishing fishing fleets. The exhibition includes her publications, audio recordings of her storytelling and other bits and pieces from the sea...