Today’s Anchorage Museum welcomes visitors from around the world, but its beginnings were far more modest. Since opening in a 10,000-square-foot building, the museum has grown through multiple expansions and evolving ideas about what a museum can be.
In this outdoor painting session with Don Kolstad, participants will learn about the history and transformation of the Anchorage Museum while painting a scene from the museum’s front lawn.
Please dress for the weather. The program will take place rain or shine.
Open to ages 21+. $80 materials fee. Registration required.
Presented in conjunction with Everyday Anchorage: Duke Russell & Ward Wells, now on view on the fourth floor.
About the artist
Don Kolstad was born in Southern California in 1952. In 1982, Don decided to try a career as a full-time artist, and Alaska seemed the most beautiful place on earth to paint. Don has been the featured artist at many fundraising auctions including the Mayor’s Ball and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. The last several years Don has been teaching watercolor, drawing, oil classes and giving workshops along with his work in the studio and Plein Air painting. He continues to challenge his work with new ideas and techniques and is more interested in where the work is going and not where it's been.