Underwater archaeologist Jacques Marc and diver Annette Smith explore what life was like on board the Princess Sophia before the fateful October 25, 1918 shipwreck and share what we can learn from crockery recovered during dives to the site.
At the APK
MUG UP: THE NN CANNERY HISTORY PROJECT
Join Dr. Katherine Ringsmuth for a presentation and community conversation about the NN Cannery History Project, a collaborative effort to preserve the history of more than a century of cannery lives. The NN Cannery is located on the south side of the Naknek River, one of the five rivers that make up the Bristol Bay salmon fishery.
Dr. Ringsmuth is a professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the author of five books for the National Park Services, including two on canneries. She also has a personal connection to the NN Cannery. Her dad, Gary Johnson, was the last of the Alaska Packers Association superintendents, and she labored as a cannery worker to pay for college.
Artist talk with Linda Infante Lyons
Linda Infante Lyons’ paintings imagine scenes of hushed stillness, devoid of human presence and inhabited by flora and fauna. Her painting series, Ebb and Flow, includes medium and large format oil paintings of Alaska-inspired landscapes.
Windows into Heaven: An Artist Talk with Deacon Charles Rohrbacher
For thirty-five years, Alaskan icon painter Deacon Charles Rohrbacher has been a part of an international rediscovery of the icon and rebirth of icon painting in Russia and in the West. Rohbacher’s exhibit, Windows into Heaven: Contemporary Icons, offers a place where refuge, solace, and peace can be found in imagery. Deacon Charles Rohrbacher is one of eight artists selected for the Alaska State Museum 2017-2019 Solo Artist Exhibition Series.
At the APK: As We See It, A Talk with Guest Curators India Young and Suzanne Fricke
In the exhibit As We See It, co-curators India Young and Suzanne Fricke bring together the work of eight contemporary Native American photographers and filmmakers to develop a dialogue around representation, portraiture, and landscape. By its nature, photography does not just capture images of the world. It also recreates the world by presenting a coercive vision. The exhibit offers personal perspectives on indigenous cultures, on the history of photography, and on the importance of a Native view to the world at large. Young, art historian and curator, researches Indigenous art,print media, and emerging modes of reproduction. Her curatorship and writing negotiate feminist, decolonial, and critical race frameworks to trace the cultural geography of the contemporary North American art world. Graduating in 2017 with a doctorate from the University of New Mexico, Young will shortly take up an Andrew W. Mellon funded research position at Princeton University Art Museum.
AUTHOR TALK – JANET COLLINS
Janet Collins, author of On the Arctic Frontier: Ernest Leffingwell’s Polar Explorations and Legacy, discusses her research on the early polar explorer and his work exploring, studying and mapping the landscape in what is now the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge between 1906 and 1914. In consultation with the Inupiat of the area, Leffingwell took scientific measurements, created maps, and surveyed the geography and geology, including groundbreaking research on permafrost.