Exhibits and Events

Switch to Calendar View

• Virtual Alaska Story Hour for Adults

  • Start
    Wed, November 02, 2022
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • End
    Sat, March 04, 2023
  •  
    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  Fridays, 12–1pm online
  
  Join us on Fridays as we read the award-winning and highly rated Walking My Dog, Jane by Ned Rozell. A science writer from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, author Rozell is well-known for making science accessible and fun with the “Alaska Science Forum.” 
  
  Register for Virtual Alaska Story Hour for Adults.
  

  
  

  Show details
• Midnight at the Fireworks Stand by Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit

  • Start
    Fri, November 04, 2022
  • End
    Sat, January 07, 2023
  • Location
    APK

  

  
  

  Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit

  Solo Exhibition

  November 4, 2022 - January 7, 2023 

  
  

  In her solo exhibition Midnight at the Fireworks Stand, artist Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit considers the ways in which western contact continues to shape Indigenous communities, from potlaches to the poverty-to-prison pipeline. 

  
  

  Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit is a multidisciplinary artist from Yakutat. She is believed to be the first Tlingit woman to carve and raise a totem pole. Bremner studied under master artists David R. Boxley and David A. Boxley in Kingston, Washington. Her mediums include painting, woodcarving, regalia and digital. In addition to her contemporary art practice, Bremner is committed to the revitalization of the Tlingit language and creating works for traditional and ceremonial use. 

  
  

  Bremner says: "Culture is not stagnant. Through contact and the technological revolution, Tlingit culture is constantly adapting, observing, and searching for its place in the world."

  
  

  The exhibit opens at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau on Friday, November 4, 4:30–7:00 pm and runs through January 7, 2023.

  
  

  Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit is one of six artists selected for the Alaska State Museum 2020-2023 Solo Artist Exhibition Series, along with artists Ben Huff, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Gail Priday, Jannah Sexton-Atkins, and Mitch Watley. 

  
  

  Image credit: Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit, Lil Baby with the Brass Knuckles Wallpaper, 22kt gold leaf on wood board, 2022 

  
  

  Show details
• Up Close and Under Foot by Gail Priday

  • Start
    Fri, December 02, 2022
  • End
    Thu, February 02, 2023
  • Location
    APK

  
  

  
  

  Gail Priday

  Solo Exhibition

  December 2, 2022 - February 2, 2023 

  
  

  Artist Gail Priday finds inspiration from the natural world, specifically the boreal forest. Her solo exhibition, Up Close and Under Foot, includes 33 paintings that depict “ever-changing treasures up-close and underfoot.”

  
  

  She came to Alaska from the East Coast more than a decade ago and was immediately drawn to the forest floor.

  
  

  “I knew I would love the mountains and expansive sky, but I did not expect to be so taken with the underbrush and fungus,” Priday explains. “The easily overlooked features of the landscape hold great significance to me. They suggest an extraordinary and active world that exists quietly beside my own.”

  
  

  In her paintings, she combines elements of realism and imagination to portray fungus, lichen, leaves, and other life in the understory.

  
  

  The exhibit opens at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau on Friday, December 2, 4:30–7:00 pm and runs through February 2, 2023.

  
  

  Gail Priday is one of six artists selected for the Alaska State Museum 2020-2023 Solo Artist Exhibition Series, along with artists Ben Huff, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit, Jannah Sexton-Atkins, and Mitch Watley. 

  
  

  Image credit: Gail Priday, "A Soft White Morning," acrylic on canvas, 2022 

  Show details