PRATT MUSEUM

established in 1968

Kachemak 2068: Future Visions

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Artwork Due: April 9 – 16, 2018, (M-F, 9am-5 pm.)

 

As the Pratt Museum looks back on 50 years of collecting community history, we also look to the future to ask what we will collect over the next 50. How do you envision our community and our museum in 2068? Contribute to creating our shared future through this special anniversary exhibit curated by Sharlene Cline.

Goal: to explore visions of Kachemak Bay fifty years in the future.

Artwork Due: April 9 – 16, 2018, (M-F, 9am-5 pm.)

Exhibit: May 4 – July 1, 2018

Guidelines

  • Artists may submit work in any medium: visual art, media, or narrative.* Please inquire about extra large works or special concerns.
    * please no live organics—living plants or materials with the potential to harbor insects*
  • Please include with the artwork:
    • Title
    • Media
    • Artist
    • Brief statement (200 words max)
    • Sale price or “Not for Sale” (sale price includes 25% commission)
    • Any special instructions for installation
  • Artist loan agreement must be completed at or before drop off
  • Inclusion in the exhibition and gallery design is at the discretion of the curator

Questions?

Contact Scott Bartlett, Curator of Exhibits: sbartlett@prattmuseum.org or 907.435.3335.

Shared Artifacts

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Due: Now through June 1, 2018

As the Pratt Museum looks back on 50 years of collecting community history, we also look to the future to ask what we will collect over the next 50. How do you envision our community and our museum in 2068?

Do you possess treasured objects that are representative of your life or our shared experience around the Kachemak Bay region? What item would you want to be preserved for the future? Submit a photograph and description of your object or image, at the Pratt’s front desk or online. Deadline: NOW through June 1, 2018

*objects will not be donated or lent, we are collecting reference images only!*

There are two ways to share your artifact:

  1. Attach your image with this online form.
  2. Bring your object (if smaller than a breadbox) to the Pratt Museum’s front desk for photo documentation and fill out a submission/description form.

The compiled “virtual artifacts” will be displayed as part of Kachemak 2068, which runs May 4 – July 1, 2018.

Dirigibles of Denali by Nathan Shafer

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July 6 – September 18, 2018

Dirigibles of Denali is an augmented reality app/interactive print project reimagining three domed cities that were planned, but never built in Alaska: Seward’s Success, Denali City and Arctic Town. All three domed cities will be virtually constructed on location in Alaska, using mobile augmented reality technology (overlaying virtual information on the real world), creating site-specific, digitally tangible environments using the original historic city plans. In situ, high-resolution images of these three pieces of site-specific augmented reality and a collected anthology of commissioned alternate history stories written by contemporary Alaskan authors will form the basis of the interactive book and museum show, where the works can be activated using target-based augmented reality.