The story of Alaska told through multiple perspectives reveals the ingenuity, technology, and intimate understanding of the landscape that have allowed people to survive and thrive across the North.
Opening in the centennial year of the completion of the Alaska Railroad, this exhibition looks at the history, impact, and legacy of the railroad through archival images, objects, and ephemera.
Generations before statehood and earlier even than the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, Black men and women arrived in Alaska and have since participated in politics, economic development, and culture.
Christina Seely's DISSONANCE and DISTURBANCE draw on Seely’s fieldwork in Greenland, Alaska, and Panama, and investigate how the proliferation of global trade networks and the worsening climate crisis are impacting the environment.
Dena'inaq' Huch'ulyeshi: The Dena'ina Way of Living, curated by the Anchorage Museum in 2013, was the first comprehensive exhibition about Dena’ina Athabascan people presenting Dena’ina history and culture through art, music, storytelling, re-created settings and hands-on activities.
Artists, mothers, scientists and makers included in this exhibition testify to the vital role that both Indigenous and newcomer women have in Northern communities, guided by principles of gender equity, sustainability and strength.
An immersive soundscape formed by the blending of the Alaska field recordings with archival recordings, digital and electronic sounds and more create a listening experience that is both transient and meditative.
A multi-site-specific exploration of the linked forces of a changing climate and rising inequality that braids together allusions to freedom, survival, containment, and control.
Pass the Mic celebrates contemporary Alaska musicians and sound artists, inviting interactive participation in making and listening to the sounds and songs in Alaska today.
In times of pandemic, climate crisis, and ongoing assaults to human rights, Indigenous Alaska artists envision the future through design, tattoo, regalia, and graphic arts.
A virtual exhibition by artist Mary Mattingly that proposes a mobile and wearable future through ideas of shelter within an absurd dystopic commentary about over-consumption and possible solutions.
The Yup’ik people have no word for science yet their tools were so well designed that they allowed the Yupiit to live in a land no one else would inhabit.
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