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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The Western Museums Association (WMA) recently awarded the Anchorage Museum with the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award for Exhibition Excellence for the exhibition Quonset: Metal Living for a Modern Age.
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Fred Machetanz (1908-2002) was one of Alaska's most popular artists, known for both his paintings and for his prints of life in Bush Alaska, a life that Machetanz knew from his first trip in 1935. He painted Alaska's Natives, whalers, trappers, prospectors and wildlife. He learned first hand about Eskimo life and traveled by dog sled.
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The Anchorage Museum is pleased to announce receipt of a holiday gift of $100,000 from Wells Fargo for the museum's expansion project.
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