The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center is pleased to announce the Cook Inlet Historical Society (CIHS) has formally transferred ownership of the society’s collection to the museum. The collection includes 2,500 historical and cultural objects and thousands of photographs, maps and rare books.
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The Yup’ik have no word for science yet their tools were so well designed that they allowed them to live in a land no one else would inhabit.
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The Anchorage Museum presents a retrospective exhibition of Rie Munoz's Alaska art through Jan. 6. Rie Munoz began painting small vignettes of Alaska soon after arriving in Juneau in 1950. A self-taught artist, she painted in oils in a "painstakingly realistic" style, which she found stiff and "somewhat boring."
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The Anchorage Museum's biennial juried craft exhibition is one of the state's longest running juried exhibitions. This popular statewide exhibition showcases Alaska artists working with clay, glass, metal, wood, fiber, skin, bone or stone.
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Fiber artist Fran Reed's solo exhibition, "Of Time and Place: Contemporary Expressions in Fishskin," will be on view Jan. 14 through Feb 25 at the Anchorage Museum with an opening reception Sunday, Jan. 14 from 1 to 3 pm.
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