Events & Exhibits in January
 Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit, Midnight at the Fireworks Stand, Acrylic paint, vintage and found wallpaper, wood panel
January First Friday with Two Solo Exhibitions
January 6, 4:30-7 pm, free admission
Alaska State Museum
Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit and Gail Priday exhibitions are on display. This is the last opportunities to see Bremner's show (it closes Jan. 7).
Friday, Jan. 13, 2023, 12-12:45 pm
On Zoom only
Marcia Biederman will give a historical talk entitled “The Courage of Agnes Young McAlpin: The Forgotten Story of a Haida Woman Who Won a Fight for Her Human Rights.”
To attend the talk, go to Zoom and input meeting ID: 842 3603 1991 and passcode: Agnes.
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 Introspection by Robert Hoffmann
Saturday, January 14, 2022, 2-3 pm
On Zoom and in-person at Sheldon Jackson Museum
Filling Empty Spaces – Attraction and Distraction is an exhibition of new works by Robert Hoffmann. Join us for a talk with the artist and enjoy the show and light fare afterwards.
To attend the talk live on Zoom and see a slide show of art in the exhibition, go to Zoom and input meeting ID: 816 5128 2902 and passcode: Robert.
Alaska State Museum
Through February 4, 2023
Up Close and Under Foot, is a solo exhibition of paintings by Fairbanks artist Gail Priday. Priday finds inspiration from the natural world, specifically the boreal forest. In her paintings, she combines elements of realism and imagination to portray fungus, lichen, leaves, and other life in the understory.
Image credit: Gail Priday, Amazements, Acrylic on Canvas
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Alaska State Museum
Through January 7, 2023
In her solo exhibition, Midnight at the Fireworks Stand, artist Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit considers the ways in which western contact continues to shape Indigenous communities, from potlaches to the poverty-to-prison pipeline. Bremner is a multi-disciplinary artist from Yakutat.
Image credit: Alison Bremner Nax̲shag̲eit, Lil Baby with the Brass Knuckles, 2022.
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Fridays, noon-1 pm, online
Cold Mountain Path by Tom Kizzia starts Dec. 2
Story hours for kids are great, but why should they get all the fun?
Homer, Alaska author and journalist Tom Kizzia, named 2022 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society, will join us to kick off reading his book. Cold Mountain Path, a prequel, of sorts to his bestselling Pilgrim’s Wilderness: a True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier, digs into the history of the community of McCarthy, starting from the closure of the Kennecott Mine. Join us!
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Deadline extended to January 5.
The Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum are looking for Alaska Native artists to apply to the 2023 Native Artist Residency program.
Residencies are 21-22 days long and occur:
- July 7-July 28
- August 18-September 9
- September 15-October 6
- October 7-October 28
If you have questions about the program or application, please email Jacqueline Fernandez-Hamberg or call (907) 747-8904.
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