Denise Heimel, untitled, clay and mixed media. Prize-winner in 2007’s Earth, Fire and Fibre exhibit.
Earth, Fire and Fibre
On view September through December 2009
The Anchorage Museum’s biennial juried craft exhibition is one of the state’s longest running juried exhibitions. This popular statewide exhibition showcases Alaska artists working with clay, glass, metal, wood, fiber, skin, bone or stone.
Selected artworks often challenge the usual preconceptions, blurring the lines between art and craft.
Tami Jo Phelps,
Remember Leaves
Alaska Positive 2008
On view Sept. 4 through Oct. 25
This biennial, statewide photography exhibition is organized every two years by the Alaska State Museum. Eighty Alaska photographers submitted 267 photographs in this competition. For “Alaska Positive 2008,” juror Bill Owens selected 56 photographs by 42 photographers, who include Bonnie Landis, Ben Huff, Deanna Lampe and Clark James Mishler.
Science in Toyland
On view September through December 2009
This touring exhibit, developed by the California Science Center, uses classic toys such as matchbox cars and tops to demonstrate scientific principles and encourage children to experiment. Toyland combines problem solving with the fun of playing games to foster a positive attitude toward science.
Displays include Kids Construction Co., a wood-and-foam house that teaches small children about shapes and patterns. In Tournament of Tops, children experience inertia and gravity through a top-spinning competition. Kids who gravitate toward transportation toys can experiment with acceleration and momentum by adjusting a racetrack, and discover the Bernoulli principle as they re-position the sails of a sail boat and follow the boat’s resulting course.
Artists at Play
On view September through December 2009
Like
children at play, artists love to explore and imagine. A companion to
“Science in Toyland,” this exhibition features artworks created from
toys. Instead of paint and canvas, a select group of Alaska artists
will use old and new dolls, trucks, blocks, games, robots and more to
create art about the joy that toys bring. Each art work will be
accompanied by a hands-on activity for children. Artists include David
Mollett, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Mike Mense, Buck Walsky and Keren
Lowell.
Star Wars:
Where Science Meets Imagination
On view February through April 2010
Using the familiar imagery of the six Star Wars films as a springboard for the imagination, this exhibition launches audiences into explorations of real-world technologies and exciting visions of what the future could be. This traveling exhibition features more than 100 pieces of film memorabilia and related objects, exclusive video footage, and more than a dozen interactive exhibits including Make the Jump to Lightspeed! in a replica of the "Millennium Falcon" cockpit. Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination, presented by Bose Corporation, was developed by the Museum of Science, Boston and Lucasfilm Ltd. © 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Used Under Authorization.
(detail) Sarah Anne Johnson, Guy and Jess, photograph.
True North
Contemporary Art in the Circumpolar North
On view fall 2010
In this exhibition curated by the Anchorage Museum, contemporary artists from the circumpolar north strip away utopian myths about northern life. This project brings together a comprehensive selection of indigenous and non-indigenous artists from Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Russia.
The 7,000-square-foot exhibition allows artists room to stretch with large-scale installations and multimedia work. Experience a new sound installation by Alaska composer John Luther Adams, an inflatable wishing well by Icelandic artist Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir, and an installation mimicking arctic flora using a 3-D printer by Canadian artist Tania Kitchell.
After it closes at the Anchorage Museum, the exhibition will travel to Canada and Scandinavia.
