Kevin Co
| Kevin Co | |
| Nationality | American |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Documentary video producer, editor |
| Known for | Owner of Frontier Media Arts; Peace Tree nursery curator, Homer Public Library |
| Awards | Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award (2007) |
| Website | https://www.frontiermediaarts.com/ |
Kevin Co is an American documentary video producer and editor based in Homer, Alaska.[1] He is the owner of Frontier Media Arts, a video production and post-production company whose documentary and photographic work centers on Alaska Native and environmental subjects.[1] His film Eyes Wide Open received a Vimeo Staff Pick in 2008, and he received a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award in 2007.[1]
Career
Through Frontier Media Arts, Co has produced documentary video work on Alaska subjects including Bristol Bay, the proposed Pebble Mine, the Yukon River, and subsistence fishing, with clients that have included WWF, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council.[1] The company has operated since 2007, providing production, post-production, graphics and sound editing, subtitles and translation, and archival research and licensing services.[1]
Education
Co holds a BFA in Media Arts from Pratt Institute, where he was a Presidential Scholarship recipient from 1999 to 2003, and studied media arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands.[1]
Homer Public Library
Co works at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska.[2] He created the library's Sadako display and became the curator of the Peace Tree nursery, a tree grown from seeds of trees that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.[2] The Peace Tree, the idea of former Homer resident Steve Yoshida, is located in the Homer Public Library.[3]
External links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Frontier Media Arts". Frontier Media Arts. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "How Homer got its own Peace Tree". KBBI AM 890. October 14, 2021. Retrieved 2026-10-07.
- ↑ "Coffee Table: Homer's Peace Tree". KBBI AM 890. October 14, 2021. Retrieved 2026-10-07.