MAY AT THE APK & SJM
 Graphic design by Jennifer Moss
Boreal Forest Stories opens this Friday
Exhibit Opening
Friday, May 2, 4:30–7:00 pm
Alaska State Museum
Free admission
Lecture with ITOC director Mary Beth Leigh, artist and poet Susan Campbell, and artist Jennifer Moss
Friday, May 2, 7:00 pm
APK Lecture Hall
Forming an emerald ring around the circumpolar North, the boreal forest is the world’s largest land-based biome. Also known as taiga, it accounts for approximately one third of Earth’s total forest area and covers the majority of Interior Alaska.
Boreal Forest Stories 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.
Ursala Hudson (Tlingit): Elevating Female-Gendered Art Practices for Collective Prosperity
Alaska Robotics Mini-Con
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May 17, 10 am-5 pm
APK atrium
Free admission
A comic convention for Juneau!
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Sunday, May 18, 1:00-2:30 pm
Alaska State Musem
Join Dimi Macheras and Casey Silver, creators of the graphic novel Chickaloonies in an interactive workshop where students learn to think visually and collaboratively and express their inner storyteller through the medium of the graphic novel. Their work will also be featured in the new Children's Exploration Center.
Registration is required. Students in grades 1-3 or younger will need to be accompanied by an adult.
Questions? Please contact the Children's Exploration Center at childrens.exploration.center@alaska.gov
Hosted through the new Children's Exploration Center at the APK, dedicated to promoting lifelong learning among young Alaskans, with a focus on early literacy and hands-on exploration of the state's unique history, culture, and art. Work on the new space for the Children's Exploration Center will begin this summer.
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Ongoing at the Alaska State Museum
Juneau-based qayaq (kayak) maker Lou Logan is constructing an open-sea qayaq at the Alaska State Museum. Logan is making his first skin-on-frame qayaq in the tradition of his Iñupiaq ancestors from Wales, Alaska. His journey to making kayaks began in 2014 while working as a photographer at the museum. The kayaks he saw there inspired him to research Iñupiaq qayat as a way to expand his knowledge about his heritage. Logan’s grandmother was from Kingigin (Wales), Alaska, one of the oldest communities in the Bering Strait region.
A qayaq frame from King Island is on display in the gallery where Logan is working. Logan is studying this frame while constructing his own qayaq.
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XX: Twenty Years of Alaskan Art
Ongoing at the Alaska State Museum
XX: Twenty Years of Alaskan Art features the work of contemporary Alaskan artists.
The museum acquired these pieces over the last twenty years though the generosity of the Rasmuson Foundation’s Alaska Art Fund.
Initiated in 2003, the Alaska Art Fund provides grants for Alaska museums to purchase current work by practicing Alaskan artists.
Thanks to the Fund, the Alaska State Museum has brought over 200 works of art valued at nearly half a million dollars into its permanent collection—the most significant donation over time, in terms of dollar value, in the museum’s 124-year history.
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Summer Hours & Holiday Closure
Hours through April 30
Alaska State Museum
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am-4 pm
Sheldon Jackson Museum
Wednesday-Saturday, 10 am-4 pm
Hours starting May 1
Alaska State Museum
Tuesday-Sunday, 9 am-4:30 pm; Monday, 1-4:30 pm
Sheldon Jackson Museum
Monday-Friday, 9 am-4:30 pm
Holiday Closure
All facilities will be closed May 26 for the state holiday.
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