A SNOWFLAKE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN:

‘FROZEN FORMS’ EXHIBITION OPENS AT THE ANCHORAGE MUSEUM

On view Nov. 15, 2024 - April 06, 2025

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – What if you could create a giant snowflake that wouldn’t melt?

The Anchorage Museum is doing nearly that with a little imagination and a lot of cardboard in the exhibition “Frozen Forms,” on view Nov. 15, 2024, through April 6, 2025.

Inspired by the intricate symmetry of snow crystal geometry and the large-scale cardboard sculptures of the design group Collective Paper Aesthetics, “Frozen Forms” fills the museum’s first-floor family galleries with giant sculptures and playscapes where visitors of all ages are encouraged to play, learn and imagine within the context of Alaska’s winter mainstay: snow.

The forms installed within the space evoke ice crystal formations found in snow: stellar dendrite, needle, and capped column. While snowflakes’ crystalline structure forms through bonded water molecules, the sculptural forms in “Frozen Forms” are shaped by interlocking modular components made of recycled cardboard.

Accompanying the forms throughout the multi-gallery space are real and artistic renderings of individual snowflakes, information about snow geometry and the role of environment and weather on snow, and an area where visitors can build a snow fort out of LEGO blocks.

The result is a dynamic visual experience that fosters a sense of community and collective creativity and offers a distinctively fun and Northern take on the science – and technology, engineering, art, and mathematics – of snow.

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About Collective Paper Aesthetics
Collective Paper Aesthetics is a design studio founded by architect and designer Noa Haim. The studio specializes in creating interactive installations and architectural-scale structures using modular, sustainable paper components.

Sponsors
This program is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, The Atwood Foundation, and First National Bank Alaska.

About the Anchorage Museum 
Creatively reflecting a sustainable and equitable North, the Anchorage Museum focuses on people, place, planet and potential. The museum sits on the traditional homeland of the Dena’ina Eklutna. Learn more at www.anchoragemuseum.org.