Reality Check w/ John Tracy: Tennys Owens made Anchorage her canvas

Thursday, Anchorage’s premier art gallery Artique closed it’s doors for the last time, after 45 years in business.
Artique is the love child of owner Tennys Owens.
If the modern history of Anchorage could be painted on canvas, Tennys Owens and her husband, Tom, would be primary colors. The Air Force sent the young couple to Alaska in 1967; Tom Owens as a JAG attorney and Tennys Owens as an entrepreneur in the making.
In 1971 she opened a 900 square foot space in Anchorage’