PRATT MUSEUM

established in 1968

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.

Kachemak 2068

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May 4 – July 1, 2018

Pratt Museum has been a cornerstone of Homer and Kachemak Bay for fifty years. What might the next half-century hold? What will Kachemak Bay look like, and what might the museum seek to collect? A combination of “future visions” and samples from private collections from the region will explore the future of both the community and the museum on its centennial of 2068.

This program is supported in part by a Grant-In-Aid from the Alaska State Museum, Alaska State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and City of Homer.

Ties Us Together by Sharlene Cline

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May 4 – July 1, 2018

“Ties Us Together” seeks to mend the divisions in our community by exploring the similarities of Homer’s people.

Working from community-sourced themes, Sharlene Cline weaves current and historical perspectives on the activities that tie us together as a community. Historical photos from the Pratt collection, collaged with original painting, fabric, and decorative paper will weave the past and present. Local mementos, memories, and K-12 sourced artworks will weave into the site-specific installation.

This program is supported in part by a Grant-In-Aid from the Alaska State Museum, Alaska State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and City of Homer.

2018 Quilt Raffle Winners

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The whimsical and dynamic “Moosin’ Around” quilt has found a new home! Congratulations to Paul Kelly of Severna Park, Maryland, winner of the 2018 annual quilt raffle. Shirley Fedora of Homer, Alaska took home the bonus wall-hanging quilt this year, titled “Swamp Rose”. The Pratt Museum’s annual quilt raffle is made possible through the incredible teamwork and generosity of the Kachemak Bay Quilters, who imagine, create, and donate a large raffle quilt each year; and the Patrons of the Pratt Society (POPS), for organizing the raffle each year. We appreciate our amazing partners and thank everyone who purchased tickets. This year’s quilt raised $4,113, which will be used to benefit Museum programs in 2018. We can’t wait for the unveiling of the next quilt in May 2018, just in time for the Museum’s 50th anniversary!

Curators’ Closet

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February 1 -April 28, 2018

The Pratt Museum’s current and former Collections Department staff collaborate to create an exhibit based on each curator’s “favorite things.” This retrospective exhibit highlights items in storage that visitors may not see often, gives some insight into the role and nature of the museum’s collections, and invites visitors to think about what they value as individuals and, collectively, as a community.

This retrospective look at the Pratt Museum’s collections will also be a springboard to discuss the collection moving into the future.

Stay tuned for a schedule of community conversations, workshops, a call for art, and curricula in local K-12 schools!

New Acquisitions

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February 1 – March 31, 2018

Come see what’s new in 2018! The annual recent acquisitions show in the lower level Art Gallery features contemporary Alaska art acquired through donations and the Rasmuson Foundation’s Art Acquisition Fund, as well as select donations in the areas, cultural history and natural sciences.