Murals

The Anchorage Museum collaborates with artists, local businesses and community partners to install art in public spaces as catalysts for creativity, conversation and equity.

Alaska Mural Project

The Alaska Mural Project brought together a group of artists including James Temte, Will Kozloff, Crystal Worl, Ash Adams, Ted Kim, Justin DeWolf, and others, who worked in collaboration with Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Anchorage Museum, Alaska Pacific University, and other community partners to create and install murals in downtown Anchorage. The project began Summer 2020 to celebrate art, urban, creativity and culture by enriching our community through mural arts. These artists believe that public art leads to an improved community as a catalyst for safety, cleanliness, creativity and conversation.

Artist James Temte of Alaska Mural Project talks about the power of murals in providing voice and visual identity for communities.

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G STREET & W 7TH AVE — G STREET & W 7TH AVE

By Crystal Worl

645 G St (East facade)

The latest work of the Alaska Mural Project, this installation on G Street pays homage to several different Alaska Native tribes, highlighting Anchorage as a gathering place. Says Worl: “There's a great diversity of tribes that live and work and coexist in Anchorage today. And so, I wanted to create a piece that feels significant to a lot of people in Anchorage.”

This public art installation was made possible through a collaboration of the Anchorage Museum, Cook Inlet Tribal Council, The Anchorage Downtown Partnership, Alaska Pacific University, Agnew::Beck Consulting, Barbara & Larry Cash, SALT LLC., The Atwood Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies, NEA. This mural was also partially funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

KOBUK BUILDING, EAST WALL — KOBUK BUILDING, EAST WALL

By Drew Michael

504 W. 5th Avenue

This mural will feature a superimposed depiction of a colorful mask, a nod to Drew Michael’s regular body of work as a mask maker. Michael artist hopes this piece will present a look into the unique perspectives of the Indigenous people that call the area home.

SEED LAB FACADE, FRONT — SEED LAB FACADE, FRONT

By Karen Larsen

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

Future Ready, by Anchorage graphic designer Karen Larsen. Part of Seed Lab’s goal is to focus on visuals, language, solutions, landscapes, and equity for the future.

SEED LAB FACADE, EAST — SEED LAB FACADE, EAST

By Thomas Chung (with assistance from his students at UA)

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

Thomas Chung created the murals as part of his artist residency at Seed Lab in September 2020. The form of the mural is inspired by the forms of Tiffany stained-glass windows and represent ideas of relationships with the natural world by cultures around the world, reflecting on what it is we treasure for the future in the midst of a climate crisis and as we connect and reconnect with nature.

SEED LAB FACADE, EAST — SEED LAB FACADE, EAST

By Andrew Garcia

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

Andrew Garcia also goes by the artist name “Vow.” He was born and raised in San Antonio, TX and joined the military. He would like to see more murals in Anchorage, from facades to alleyways. He says there is something about spray paint that he couldn’t stay away from—"the feel of squeezing down on the of a nozzle of a can hoping to create something amazing is a rush. It’s a feeling I can’t explain. It’s just me, my headphones and the wall with my paint; just in my own escape of reality and creativity.” He says he hopes his artwork inspires people to chase what they love and not lose hope. For Garcia, being stationed in Alaska has been a great opportunity and the start of his creative journey.

SEED LAB FACADE, WEST — SEED LAB FACADE, WEST

Think Next Over Now by James Temte

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

Think Next Over Now, an Alaska Mural Project installation by James Temte, created with a photo by Michael Conti (2019)

Photo by Michael Conti

SEED LAB FACADE, WEST — SEED LAB FACADE, WEST

By William Kozloff

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

A piece from the Alaska Mural Project, this mural by William Kozloff occupies the center of the Anchorage Museum Seed Lab's west façade.

SEED LAB FACADE, North — SEED LAB FACADE, North

By William Kozloff

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

This work by William Kozloff is of an Unangan woman holding a skinning knife and wearing a salted bag that was used for preserving seal meat until the end of the day after seals were brought from the beach onto the grass where the skinners would work. Kozloff examines the impact of colonization on the Aleutians and the Century of Servitude.

SEED LAB FACADE, WEST — SEED LAB FACADE, WEST

By Arielo Bisco Taylor

111 W 6th Ave, Anchorage Museum Seed Lab

A mural by Arielo Bisco Taylor completed October 2020. Taylor (Unangan/African-American) is a graphic, tattoo and graffiti artist living and working in Anchorage, exploring issues of race and identity and the forms of hip-hop culture in his work.

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