Dean Homestead and Art Studios Tour and The Dean Gallery, Alaska, United States
5.0 (77 reviews) Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #3 in Homer Art Galleries • Farms
Wow! Amazing, beautiful, engrossing
Tour the Dean Homestead and Art Studios, for a heartfelt, handmade, and one-of-a-kind experience. Join Alaskan artists Ranja and Jeff Dean for this unique guided tour. Immerse yourself in our creative Alaskan lifestyle as you meander through a menagerie of art and animals, gardens, and architecture. Visit working art studios and see art in the making. The 2-hour educational tour ends with a visit to The Dean Gallery. It’s a glimpse into the lives of an Alaskan family as we share a lifetime of inspiration, dedication, and diverse creative output. Our hope is to bring a little magic to your day and inspire and encourage you in your own creativity. Can't make it on a tour? • The Dean Gallery has regular hours and is also open by appointment. It features artwork by Jeff, Ranja, & M’fanwy Dean, including heat-colored steel engravings, bronzes, intricately carved wood panels, & specialty prints on metal, wood, & paper.
Address
40374 Waterman Rd, Homer, AK 99603-9404
Mobile
Website
http://jeffreyhdean.com/tour/
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 13, 2024, 4:18
User Ratings
5.0 based on (77 reviews)
Reviews
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5ElizabethHR90 5:00 PM Jul 4, 2022
Amazing!!
The Dean farm is fascinating on many levels and has something for everyone! The tour includes art education on Jeff’s metalwork and Ranja’s bronze techniques along with a tour of the workshop (which is like a gallery in its construction). The craftsmanship on all of the buildings is creative, interesting, as well as functional and beautiful. If you have an interest in fruit, flowers, herbs, or gardening there is a lot to enjoy and learn. Raising and breeding chickens and their keep/care, as well as goats, donkeys, and a special half yak named Yeti (who alone is worth the tour). The tour concludes with a visit to the Dean gallery (the building alone worth touring) and it contains the creative work of three different artists each with their own unique and interesting styles. The scenery is picturesque and there is so much to learn and absorb that the time flies by and days/weeks later we are still processing everything we saw and heard. It is definitely worth a visit if you ever have the opportunity.
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5Mark D 5:00 PM Jun 20, 2022
Wow! Amazing, beautiful, engrossing
We visited as a part of a longer tour we were on, and I was a little skeptical as neither art nor farms is my thing. I came away practically glowing - the Deans are fabulously creative, inventive, and welcoming, with a wonderful aesthetic. Their gardens, animals, design, buildings, and stories will make you realize how differently a life can be well lived, and but for the winter weather, make you wish they’d adopt you. Any one of the flower garden, vegetable and herb gardens, animal collection, or ingenious buildings would be enough to make this family jaw droppingly impressive, but on top of all that they are accomplished artists. A greatly appreciated 2 hour visit. Thank you!
