Upcoming Exhibits

Alaska Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition
On view Sept. 26 through Nov. 21
The 36th Annual Alaska Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition returns to the Anchorage Museum with 45 new art works by some of the state’s most recognizable names in watercolors, including Nancy Crawford, Jean Watson and Cindy Brabec-King. Exhibition juror is artist Linda Doll of San Diego, former president of the National Watercolor Society. Doll selected pieces addressing a wide range of subjects from traditional still lifes and nature scenes to bright abstracts. The Alaska Watercolor Society was formed in 1974 as a nonprofit organization to promote professional watercolor painting in Alaska.

Andy Warhol: Manufactured
On view Nov. 5, 2010 through Jan. 30, 2011

Andy Warhol’s artistic premise is that the ordinary can be considered art, and the ordinary is usually a manufactured object. From soup cans to portraits of movie stars, all are constructs of a commercial world. Warhol even manufactured his own persona. This 5,000-square-foot exhibit employs many of Warhol’s better known photographs, silkscreens and films to comment on manufactured objects and lives.

Wonderland of Toys
On view Nov. 26 through Jan. 2

For many Alaska families, journeying to the museum to see “Wonderland of Toys” is a beloved holiday tradition. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, the museum’s atrium is transformed into a dazzling tableau of toys, some that date back as far as the 1800s. Against a backdrop of twinkling lights and tinsel, find life-sized French dolls, carousel horses, Oaxacan carved animals, and an evergreen tree decorated with more than 100 dolls dressed in costumes from around the world. Other exhibit highlights include a hand-painted wood Schoenhut Humpty Dumpty circus from the early 1900s

Anchorage School District Art Show
On view Feb. 26 through March 27
The 38th annual Anchorage School District exhibition showcases art work from the district’s most creative student artists. The exhibition gives kindergarten through high school students a venue to display their art. Works include drawings, paintings, metalwork, ceramics, sculpture, and multimedia.

Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age
On view March 4 through Oct. 9, 2011
This traveling exhibition created by Chicago’s Field Museum re-creates the lives of mammoths and mastodons, their interactions with one another and with ancient humans. The exhibition also explores how they died and became extinct. Displays include skeletons, skulls and tusks, large-scale projections, life-sized dioramas and virtual experiences. Also on display are rare and evocative objects, including some of the oldest art in existence.