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Denali: Artists Respond to Composers

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February 4 – May 25, 2020

DENALI Artists Respond to Music Inspired by Wilderness was conceived at the confluence of two languages-music and visual art. Elements Artist Group, six artists anchored in Alaska, created eighteen pieces of art in collaboration with nine composers from Composing in the Wilderness 2017. Each piece of art is a personal response to a musical composition. Composers from Denali National Park’s Composing in the Wilderness program shared their music scores, ideas, and information about specific locations that kindled their inspiration. Elements artists have all experience the transformative potency of living, working, traveling, or being an Artist in Residence in Denali Park. Their connections to this rare wilderness, alon with knowledge of specific places influence their responses–the colors, textures, shapes, and images they chose.

Each visual work in the show is accompanied by a musical score and QR link to audio of the composition by which it was inspired.

Kathy Smith: Rivers of Ice

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October 4 – December 28, 2019

Kathy Smith is a painter and a long time resident of Homer, Alaska. She can see Grewingk Glacier from her house, and has been watching glaciers retreat since visiting Portage Glacier as a child. Her new paintings are a record of visits to various glaciers in Alaska, and a testament to the effects of a changing climate on the northern landscape. Her work is represented in the Pratt Museum’s permanent collection.

All Alaska Biennial

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“Grandma” by Christopher Judd. Oil on Linen, 5′ x 3′. All Alaska Biennial, Honorable Mention

All-Alaska Biennial features contemporary work by Alaska artists. This juried exhibition is a continuation of the museum’s All-Alaska Juried and Earth, Fire & Fibre exhibitions, which began more than 30 years ago to encourage creation of new works in all media by Alaska artists. Guest juror Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Yukon, Canada, and is an independent curator and writer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The exhibition’s call for entries drew 634 submissions from 161 artists. Works include drawing, painting, mixed media, craft, jewelry, fiber art, visual art, metalsmithing, printmaking, encaustic, ceramic, book/paper arts, photography and sculpture.

Hopkins selected Anchorage artist Kristy Summers’ mixed-media piece Descend for the Juror’s Choice Award, with honorable mentions going to Anchorage artist Christopher Judd’s oil on linen on board painting, Grandma; and Anchorage photographer Mark Stadsklev’s photography giclée print No Way Out. The exhibition opened in Anchorage and travels to other Alaska locations throughout Fall 2019.

All Alaska Biennial is organized by The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center. Support for this traveling exhibition has been made possible with the support of: Alaska State Council on the Arts, a federal Agency; the Municipality of Anchorage, the Anchorage Museum Association and the Anchorage Museum Foundation Alaska Airlines Silver Anniversary Fund.

Landfalls

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Dedications to Alaskan Women Writers and Storytellers

“With it, we are joined, and continue” Joan Naviyuk Kane. Found images, photographs, blueberry-dyed paper and gauze, fish leather, and encaustic on hand-cut scrap metal Words from her poem, “Anchorage,” in The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife. 8″ x 10″

How do we know, relate to, and narrate the complexities of living in the North? What words resonate with us when we talk, hear, or read about the place we call home? What sparks us to learn more, change our behavior, and show empathy towards a place and its people? These questions inspired Haines artist Katie Ione Craney to create a new series of work based on deciphering the roles of women within the literary and physical landscape.

Opening reception: Friday, August 3, 5-7 p.m.

Reflecting Upon 50 Years of the Pratt Museum

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The Pratt Museum has been a part of the Kachemak Bay region for 50 years! Do you have a fond memory or story of the Pratt Museum that you’d like to share? We’re collecting reflections in any form: stories, poems, haiku, et cetera!

Compiled contributions will be gathering into a publication to debut in 2019.

Please complete the following form with your story. If you’d like to add more, or send a flashback photo, send to info@prattmuseum.org.

Thank you for being a part of the Museum!

 

 

Ties us Together

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Due: Now through June 1, 2018

What are the activities that tie our community together? How would you represent our community to an audience in 2068? Submit a photo of one activity that ties us together! Images will be part of a large format collage in Ties Us Together, a community-based installation by Sharlene Cline, May 4 – July 1, 2018.

No description necessary.

Deadline:

Images submitted through June 1, 2018 will be part of a large, progressively growing collage.

 Please submit hardcopy images to the museum’s front desk.

Submissions are considered a donation for art installation, and will not be returned. Inclusion is at the discretion of the artist.

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.

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