On View Mar 04, 2022 — Apr 03, 2022
This 50th anniversary exhibition presents artworks from the school district’s student artists ranging from kindergarten through high school.
On view Winter 2022
John Grade's Spark project explores how wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense, and their impact on our lives and landscapes. What we might learn from forest fire ecology?
on view April 30 — Oct 24, 2021
Contemporary Alaska photographer Charles Mason captures present-day Denali National Park through images made with a 19th-century photographic technique called the collodion process.
on view April 30 —Oct 24, 2021
Rowan Renee explores conflicting and complex ideas of femininity, such as the ability to give life and take life, and the divide between wildness and domesticity.
On view April 30 — Feb 13, 2022
This exhibition, told through archival photos and ephemera, showcases the richness and resilience of Black lives in Alaska.
on view West Wing, Second Floor, Arctic Gallery through Oct. 3, 2021
Inupiaq artist Ronald Senungetuk (1933-2020) was a world-renowned sculptor, silversmith and woodcarver who blended ancestral Inupiaq forms with modern concepts and materials.
On view April 2 — Oct 3, 2021
Featuring work from artists of Alaska and other parts of the US, Russia, Canada, and Scandinavia, Listen Up provides audiences a listening experience and a survey of sound art today.
On view West Wing, First Floor Galleries through April 4, 2021
Alaska Biennial is organized by the Anchorage Museum and celebrates place through the lens of contemporary art. Alaska Biennial participants are Alaska-based contemporary artists exploring the North, its people, histories, and landscapes through a variety of media.
On view West Wing, Third Floor & online through Sept. 6, 2021
Artists, mothers, scientists and makers included in this exhibition testify to the vital role that both Indigenous and newcomer women have held, and continue to hold, in Northern communities. Women’s voices and visions provide rich ground for imagining a future guided by principles of gender equity, sustainability and strength.
On View Sep 14, 2020 — Sep 20, 2020
As part of the North x North Reimagined Festival, visit the lawn of the Anchorage Museum from Monday night, September 14 through the night of Sunday, September 20, to view Haustoria, a light and sound installation by artist Annie Mitchell.
On View Online
Arctic Remix considers how Indigenous technologies have informed, inspired, or anticipated modern-day design and technology innovations. Objects highlighted in this exhibition point to what has changed, what has been remixed, and what has stayed the same.
On View Online/East Wing, Atrium
Weeks Feel Like Days, Months Feel Like Years is a participatory audio artwork developed by Paul Walde in which performers are invited to interpret a series of five text-based scores that prompt responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On View Jul 01, 2020 — Sep 13, 2020
This public photography and audio installation based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning series by Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica is part of listening to people telling their own stories, in their own voices and about recognizing both the power and powerlessness of silence.
On View Museum Galleries + Online through Winter 2021
The Anchorage Museum’s Aperture project brings multiple exhibitions and artists together with public programming in a year-long series that testifies to the power of images. This project demonstrates how photography and video may offer new views of Northern place and people.
Created to Hold Power (Intellectual Property) is a digital solo exhibition of new works by Nicholas Galanin.
On View online
Alaska is home to diverse cultures and tattooing traditions. Inuit tattoo has been practiced in Alaska for millennia by Iñupiat and Yup’ik women. Colonization suppressed traditional tattooing, but a new generation of Indigenous women are revitalizing and restoring the practice.
On View online + Outdoor Installations
Temporary installations throughout Anchorage, posing questions about and connecting us to the natural world. Shelters are located on the Anchorage Museum lawn, the 5th Avenue parking garage roof, SEED Lab parking lot, Chanstnu Muldoon Park, The Gardens at Bragaw, and Kiwanis Fish Creek Park through November and feature images by multiple artists examining the Northern landscape. The installations will be in place through November 2020.
On view East Wing, Third Floor & online through Winter 2021
An ongoing photography project presenting images taken by Andreas Hoffmann in the Disko Bay area in northwest Greenland.
On view East Wing Atrium, Second Floor
A pivotal art form of the last 100 years, film is a powerful medium for telling stories of people and place. Circumpolar Cinema shares a selection of films by artists from the Circumpolar North.
On View East Wing, Second Floor through Winter 2021 — Apr 12, 2021
The archival photographs and camera equipment in this collection spanning the 20th century show how photographic technologies have changed and shaped the way we create and consume pictures and how we view Alaska's history and its future.
On View Mar 06, 2020 — Apr 05, 2020
Take A Journey Through Art for the 48th annual Anchorage School District student art exhibition, showcasing artwork from more than 750 student artists from grades kindergarten through high school.
East Wing, Galleries 1-4, through Oct. 4, 2021
Through an array of images and audio interviews, infographics and forward-thinking design, Evicted offers an immersive experience for understanding the crisis of low-income renter eviction, how it developed and how communities may respond.
Can design help combat homelessness? With evictions a serious issue nationally and extreme weather events displacing thousands, houselessness is one of society’s biggest challenges. Through the project Houseless, the Anchorage Museum invites visitors to consider ways design can contribute to solutions.
West Wing, Level 3 through Oct. 4, 2020
From snowmachines and kick sleds to adapted winter gear and equipment, Snow Flyers celebrates decades of Northern ingenuity for survival, sport and transportation.
On View Nov 01, 2019 — Mar 15, 2020
Organized in collaboration with the Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum in Tromsø, Norway, this exhibition offers audiences an opportunity to experience installations and sculptures that reflect life in Northern Norway and everyday experiences with the Arctic landscape.
On View Oct 18, 2019 — Oct 27, 2019
Nine days of programs, performances, pop-up events, installations and artist interventions taking place Friday, Oct. 18 through Saturday, Oct. 26.
On View Jun 07, 2019 — Sep 29, 2019
Explore the enduring mystery behind Sir John Franklin’s tragic expedition. Through historical artifacts and Inuit oral history, this groundbreaking exhibition provides the most comprehensive account to date of Franklin’s final voyage.
François Étienne Musin, HMS Erebus in the Ice
On View May 03, 2019 — Oct 13, 2019
Experience the Arctic and Arctic research through immersive experiences.
Providing context for the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali, the first nationally distributed children’s TV series in the U.S. featuring an Alaska Native lead character, this exhibition presents brief historical overview of how Indigenous people have been represented in media throughout the 20th century.
On View May 03, 2019 — Jan 19, 2020
Celebrate salmon culture in Alaska in its many forms, from commercial, subsistence and sport fishing to processing, preserving and eating through a mutli-media exhibition presented in conjunction with The Salmon Project.
On View Mar 01, 2019 — Apr 07, 2019
This showcase gives kindergarten through high school students the opportunity to experience their artwork in a museum. Presented in conjunction with National Youth Art Month, student artwork is also on view at other locations across Anchorage and Eagle River.
On View Mar 01, 2019 — Sep 08, 2019
Representing the Yup’ik windmaker spirit, Tumaneq, and created in the early 1900s, the four dance masks in this exhibition are together for the first time in more than a century.
On View Feb 22, 2019 — Jan 13, 2020
Shifts in innovation, technology, and the North’s physical and cultural landscape flavor the changing story of food culture in Alaska, as told in this exhibition through films, objects, art installations, ephemera — and food.
Image by Brian Kimmel
On View Feb 01, 2019 — Apr 14, 2019
Alison Marks challenges assumptions and expectations about Tlingit art, blending formline with nontraditional materials and techniques as a means to engage with a constantly evolving cultural landscape.
Alison Marks, Bearemoji
On View Oct 19, 2018 — Feb 03, 2019
Elizabeth Irving’s paintings present a mythological interpretation of the Alaska landscape.
Elizabeth Eero Irving, All Things Remembered (The Five Rivers)
All-Alaska Biennial features contemporary work by Alaska artists. This juried exhibition is a continuation of the museum’s All-Alaska Juried and Earth, Fire & Fibre exhibitions, which began more than 30 years ago to encourage creation of new works in all media by Alaska artists. Guest juror Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon, Canada, and is an independent curator and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Kristy Summers, Descend (detail)
On View Oct 05, 2018 — May 05, 2019
New and existing artworks by Northern artists present the Arctic through depictions of two iconic animals that depend upon sea ice: the walrus and the polar bear.
Janice Wright Cheney, Spectre
On View Oct 05, 2018 — Apr 21, 2019
The Power of Energy recalls humans’ first encounters with fire and draft animals, considers the myriad uses of energy in the 21st century and ponders what might be next.
On View Sep 28, 2018 — Jan 20, 2019
Thomas Chung reaches beyond words to illustrate, celebrate and mourn the human experience.
Thomas Chung, Indra’s Net
On View Sep 28, 2018 — Nov 25, 2018
Rarefied Light, an annual juried exhibition organized by the Alaskan Photographic Center, showcases the best of Alaska’s fine art photography.
Doug Yates, Road Trip (detail)
On View Sep 15, 2018 — Jan 06, 2019
Created by New York-based artist and educator Pablo Helguera, Librería Donceles encourages social engagement through multilingual conversations, performances and workshops.
Pablo Helguera, Librería Donceles
On View Sep 07, 2018 — Apr 14, 2019
An accomplished weaver, bentwood artist, and ivory and soapstone carver, Gertrude Svarny presents a distinct interpretation of Unangan history and culture.
Gertrude Svarny, And She Borrowed Her Husband’s Eagle Feather Cape
On View Apr 20, 2018 — Sep 09, 2018
The Unsettled exhibition includes 200 artworks by 80 artists living and/or working in a super-region we call the Greater West, a geographic area stretching from Alaska to Patagonia and from Australia to the American West. Works included span 2,000 years, ranging from Pre-Columbian to modern and contemporary art.
On View Feb 24, 2017 — Sep 03, 2017
For the people who reside there, Alaska’s Arctic isn’t a curiosity, a wasteland or an untouched wilderness — it is home.