Friday, March 6 at 4:45 pm
APK Atrium

Juneau Alaska Music Matters (JAMM) 3rd-6th grade musicians from Kax̱dig̱oowu Héen Elementary School will perform new hits and JAMM classics under the baton of Franz Felkl. This will be followed by 12 year old Jinx Fortier on violin.

First & Third Saturday of the Month
1:30-3:30 pm
Alaska State Museum

March 7 Guest Artist: Averyl Veliz

Averyl Veliz will talk about background and layout, going over composition, contrast, and setting the stage via blocking and light/shadows.

Bring your own sketching materials. Graphite, colored pencils, pen, pastels, watercolor, and gouache are all ok. For ages 15+. All are welcome. Donations accepted, free for FOSLAM members.

Questions? Call 907-465-2901.

Sponsored by Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives & Museum

Saturday, March 14 at 2 pm
APK Atrium

With the generous support of the Friends of the State Library, Archives and Museum, Con Brio Chamber Series presents the final concert of its 10^th season – Art Songs, Music for Voice and Harp. Come be serenaded by outstanding local soprano, Sara Radke Brown and the brilliant San Diego harpist, Candace LiVolsi, as they perform a gorgeous program of art songs by composers including Debussy, Delibes, Hahn, Strauss, Schubert, Schumann, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov and more. They will be joined by clarinetist William Todd Hunt and flutist Sally Schlichting on additional works. 

Don’t miss this final concert of Con Brio Chamber Series!  The performance is pay-as-you-can.  For more information, contact Con Brio Chamber Series.

Friday, March 13 at 12 pm
Zoom only

Ksm Lx'sg̱a̱n, Ruth Hallows weaves in the Chilkat and Ravenstail traditions of Northwest Coastal People. As an urban Tsimshian, they are grateful for changes in 2020 that enabled them to gather weaving skills from their home on O’odham and Piipaash traditional lands near Phoenix.

Ruth's first Chilkat dancing robe, Nüüm Batsda Da Gyemsa̱x, danced to life in February 2023 at the Shuká Hít clan house in Juneau. During their 60-minute talk, Ruth will share how the dance robe is fulfilling its name, which means "Carry Us Home."

Zoom Details

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81250843492?pwd=ba8ZuuGmX9zhSwkK722WouhBrFK1TR.1
Meeting ID: 812 5084 3492
Passcode: Ruth

Saturday, March 21 at 10 AM
APK Lecture Hall

Join the Children’s Exploration Center and Kylie Ferguson from Perseverance Theatre. Create stories by making your own story cubes and performing together!

This workshop is open to all ages, focusing on grades K-6. Participants in grades 4-6 can attend without an adult present. Space is limited and registration is required.

Kylie Ferguson is a teaching artist, director, and storyteller with a background in improvisation, physical theatre, and youth education.

Through 2026
Alaska State Museum

The Spirit of Independence: Kent Bicentennial Portfolio, part of the 1976 U.S. Bicentennial celebration, features work from 12 artists who were asked to create pieces that answered one question: "What does independence mean to you?" 

Artists in the portfolio include Alex Katz, Audrey Flack, Colleen Browning, Edward Ruscha, Fritz Scholder, Jacob Lawrence, Joseph Hirsch, Larry Rivers, Marisol Escobar, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana and Will Barnet. 

As we near the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, another look at this portfolio from 1976 invites us to re-engage with the central questions and founding ideology of American democracy. Works in the exhibition ask us to reflect on social issues of the 1970s that, in many ways, continue to challenge us fifty years later. What does freedom look like? Who is it for? Who has it? Who doesn’t? How does it function in your daily life?

Through April 4, 2026
Alaska State Museum

embrace. reflect. release. is a new exhibition by mixed media sculptor and performance artist Myesha Callahan Freet, featuring a time-based performance by the artist during opening night.

Callahan Freet's inspiration and focus draw from an ongoing exploration into the evolution of self through examining her roles in relationships. Dedicated to a search for meaning and connection in the mundane, she aims to embrace life’s expansion and to reflect on what it means to be and release what no longer is. “I aim to embrace the commitment that caring for others requires." The artist resides in Chugiak, AK.

embrace. reflect. release. features time-based performance, mixed media sculptures, and visual art elements.

Image: Death to the Mother I Once Was, 2025.

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.

Through mid-March 2026
Alaska State Museum

Now in its 55th year, Alaska Positive is a statewide juried photographic exhibition organized and toured by the Alaska State Museum. Its purpose is to encourage the practice of photography as an art form in Alaska. Alaska Positive opens Friday at the Alaska State Museum and runs through mid-March 2026. The exhibition will then travel to museums around the state.

Juror Patrice Aphrodite Helmar selected 37 photographs by 33 photographers for the exhibit. Overall, Alaskan photographers submitted 198 entries.

A slideshow of The Best of Alaska Positive, comprised of award-winning photographs over the last 55 years, will be playing in an adjacent gallery.

Image: Katie Ione Craney, what we carry in our pockets (for Jenny Irene), 2025.