Current Exhibitions

Counter Cartographies: Living the Land presents contemporary artworks that examine our relationship to land, proposing alternative ways of thinking about and experiencing the landscape around us.

Paola Pivi's Lies, Lies, Lies is an immersive, multi-media installation composed of dozens of television screens and a sound system, installed on the museum’s fourth floor. Visitors experience the artwork by entering a structure made of screens, which surround them on all sides, above, and below.

Stuart Hyatt’s Stations installation examines knowing about the land through sound. The project invites questioning of western modalities of mapping, which so often privilege the visual, by encouraging listening as a way of knowing and making sense of our world.

Christina Seely's DISSONANCE and DISTURBANCE address complexities of both built and natural global systems, highlighting increasingly tenuous relationships between humans and the planet.  

Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens and journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius visited boreal forests around the Circumpolar North, ending in Alaska in 2019, in search of the stories of the forests and people who live and work in them.

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?

The Place I Call Home reflects the people, places, textures, and moods photographer Jovell Rennie associates with his hometown of Anchorage, Alaska.

Throughout 2020, Rasmuson Foundation gathered with Alaska Black leaders to discuss critical issues and how the Foundation could be a better partner to the Black community in Alaska. Through these conversations, a need for more positive media by and for Black Alaskans was highlighted.

Water Moves Life is a multi-site-specific work exploring the linked forces of a changing climate and rising inequality that braids together allusions to freedom, survival, containment, and control.