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The Pratt Museum Announces Exhibit Opening: LIGHT IN BLOOM by Faith Revell

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The Pratt Museum Announces Exhibit Opening: Light in Bloom

 

Homer, Alaska (January 16, 2024) – Pratt Museum

The Pratt Museum is excited to announce our Spring exhibition, Light in Bloom. This exhibition features the works of Valdez artist Faith Revell, who was inspired by changing light and ensuing form when creating this group of oil paintings.

Revell is an East Coast transplant and painter who has lived in Valdez, Alaska, for the past twelve years. Valdez is a remote and remarkably beautiful place situated between the Chugach Mountains and Prince William Sound in South Central Alaska. Wind, weather and snow dominate there. Seismic shifts occur often. As a result, Revell studies natural phenomena and human geography; observes and documents light changing and life unfolding; immerses herself in remarkable experiences and navigates an environment of extremes. Then, she offers up a visceral, lively painted expression and work that embodies movement and the play of elemental forces.

Twenty-six pieces of her work will be on display in the Main Gallery of the Pratt Museum from February 9 to May 12.

A First Friday Exhibition of the show will take place on March 1 beginning at 4pm and will be free to the public.

Stay tuned for more information about a possible workshop.

About the Pratt Museum The mission of the Pratt Museum is to strengthen relationships between people and place through stories relevant to Kachemak Bay. It fulfills its mission by facilitating engagement between community members and strengthening understandings of our shared place. Through these activities, the unique relationship between the people and places of Kachemak Bay will be sustained far into the future. The Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11am to 4pm. Visit the Pratt Museum at 379 Bartlett Street in Homer. Tel (907) 235-8635. More information is available at www.prattmuseum.org/.

CONTACT Whitney Harness, Visitor Services, Store and Communications Manager. (907) 235-8635 or wharness@prattmuseum.org

 

OUR STORIES, OUR PLACE

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CALL FOR STORIES: WRITTEN, CRAFTED, CAPTURED

This month, the Pratt Museum is hosting an exciting new participatory exhibit, OUR STORIES, OUR PLACE: Stories of place from the community.

We share our past experiences | A door to our path forward | We write our journey together | We paint our collective path.

To celebrate the Pratt Museum’s rich past and explore possibilities for the future, we’re inviting our community to share their stories of this place. These submissions may be specific to memories of the Pratt Museum, or to the Kachemak Bay region in general. Both visual art and written word will be accepted.

  • Art submission should be digitally submitted using form below; limited to 500MB per file.
  • Written submission should be 300 characters or less and digitally submitted below.

Submissions will be on placed on display in the OUR STORIES, OUR PLACE exhibit from January 5 to February 5 and will be featured in a First Friday Exhibition on February 2 from 4-7. Exhibit will be updated weekly to reflect additional submissions.

COPYRIGHT RELEASE: All submissions grant the Pratt Museum permission to use, publish, modify, distribute and display submitted work and personal information, including name, age, and school for exhibits, displays, advertising, educational and promotional materials for the OUR STORIES, OUR PLACE EXHIBIT at the discretion of the Pratt Museum.

Patterns in Place by Deland Anderson

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The Pratt Museum is excited to present our current temporary exhibit – Patterns in Place – works by Deland Anderson. An opening exhibition will be held from 4-6pm on October 6th, the first Friday of the month and will be free to the public, and the exhibit will be on display in our Temporary Exhibit Hall until December 27, 2023. Art cards by Anderson will be available to purchase in the Museum Store.

From the artist:

“This exhibit brings together some of the paintings I have composed over the past 30 years. Many are drawn from various exhibits I have mounted in Alaska and the Lower 48. Others are new. There is no overarching theme that ties them together. It’s more just a display of the sorts of things I have done with dot painting since I first encountered Aboriginal art in the Australian Outback in 1980. I am constantly keying into pattern and how it distributes color in the world. I hope you can share in this experience by letting these paintings lead you back into your world with a heightened sense of the play between sky and land, water and light, with a sense of how the vastness of a world may be centered on a berry or blossom.”

You can learn more about local artist Deland Anderson on his website.

You can register for Anderson’s Workshop, Introduction to DitDot Painting, by visiting our Programs and Events page.

In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories

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The Pratt Museum is excited to present our current temporary exhibit!

In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories is a is a cross-disciplinary, collaborative project examining change in the
boreal forest through narrative. For over a year and a half, 44 creators, including artists, writers,
environmental educators, and humanities scholars, exchanged knowledge and perspectives on
the boreal forest with scientists and explored narrative as it applies across the disciplines.
Through their original works, participants relate stories rooted in the boreal forest, including its
ecology, its inhabitants, and their interactions.

This exhibit will run through September 23, 2023.

Downloadable exhibit content booklet and exhibit discovery guide!

ITOC: Boreal Forest Stories