Current Exhibitions

Illustrations by Anchorage-based artist Ted Kim from the Anchorage Museum’s Dena’ina language book "Nkenaghch’: Good Words to Never Forget."

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.

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.  

This online exhibition of K-12 student art is presented through a school-year-long collaboration between the Anchorage Museum and the Anchorage School District.

Photojournalist Ash Adams and Iñupiaq writer Laureli Ivanoff examine Indigenous coming of age in rural Alaska.

For the past four years, Alaska photographer Kerry Tasker has followed surfers out onto the silty waters of Turnagain Arm to document their idiosyncratic lifestyle. He has witnessed the growth of a community and a culture, composed around a sole purpose—surfing the tide.

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.

A virtual exhibition by artist Mary Mattingly, that proposes a mobile and wearable future through ideas of shelter.  Based on an assumption that more people will lack access to basic resources, the Wearable Homes project proposes both an absurd dystopic commentary about what consumption could look like, but also possible solutions.

A Future Ready project by Anchorage artists Amy Meissner and Brian Adams. Meissner sewed “suits” from Tyvek, abandoned quilts, used household protective equipment and other materials. The work addresses survival essentials, anticipation of the inconceivable, and our associations with place.

The artwork that makes up Future Cartography tackles the concept of impending massive changes on the surface of the Earth itself.

Personality and History Are Both Revealed in Structures is an online exhibition featuring a selection of photographs by Stephen Cysewski (1945-2020) taken across Alaska from the 1970s until his death in 2020.

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.

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.

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.

The Alaska Mural Project (AMP), in collaboration with Anchorage Downtown Partnership and the Anchorage Museum, will work with artists Will Kozloff, Crystal Worl, Ash Adams, Ted Kim, and Justin DeWolf on murals to be installed in Anchorage’s downtown...

The Borealis project is supported by the Anchorage Museum’s Polar Lab Program. For Borealis, 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...

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.

An ongoing photography project presenting images taken by Andreas Hoffmann in the Disko Bay area in northwest Greenland.