Arts

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.

Original short stories from Alaska writers Clint Farr, Mary Kudenov and Heather Lende come to life as they are read aloud by local actors Elizabeth Pisel Davis, Christina Apathy and Doneice Gott.

The 2017 Alaska Folk Festival Red Carpet Concerts were recorded in the historic Alaskan Hotel, performers include The Quaintrelles, Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms, The Hannah Yoter Band, Goldwing, Emma Hill with Kat Moore, Tanya Lewis and Christopher Behnke, Annie Bartholomew, and the festival guest artists The Murphy Beds.

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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.

A mountain assembled from hanging rocks, a tapestry of fish skin, a dip net made of clay- these are just a few of the works in Annette Bellamy’s solo exhibition, Moving Mountains. The show pays tribute to the things that sustain us. Annette Bellamy is one of eight artists selected for the Alaska State Museum 2017-2019 Solo Artist Exhibition Series.

Visiting maritime historian Philippe Fichet-Delavault presents interesting material on Lituya Bay, including the contact between La Perouse, the French explorer, and the Tlingits in 1786 through the megatsunami of July 9, 1958.