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Museums Alaska Announces 2024 Fieldwide Award Winners Anchorage, Alaska – Museums Alaska, the statewide association for museums, announced the winners of their annual awards this year at their conference, held in Fairbanks from September 25-27, 2024. Museums Alaska awards individuals, partners, or organizations in several…
We announced the results of the board election during our Annual Meeting on September 25, 2024. The three nominees who will serve three-year terms from November 2024 to November 2027 are listed below with the bios submitted with their nominations. We look forward to working…
This year, Museums Alaska has been able to provide $5,672 in conference scholarships grants to museum professionals in Alaska. The funding will assist scholarship recipients in attending the 2024 Museums Alaska Conference in Fairbanks, which will be held from September 25-27, 2024. Congratulations to the…
The Alutiiq Museum has been awarded an Alaska Art Fund (AAF) grant in the amount of $7,400 to commission a gut jacket from June Pardue for the opening of their new exhibits next year. Their commission fit the guidelines for our rolling deadline due to…
Early this year, our board member Sara Hay let us know that she needed to leave the board for personal reasons. We will miss having her on the team, and we appreciate Sara’s service! This vacancy meant that, as per our bylaws, the board needed…
In this cycle, we awarded $159,597.94 to nine organizations. Thank you to all of our volunteer panelists! We couldn’t do this without you. And, of course, thank you to our longtime funder and partner in these grant programs, Rasmuson Foundation. The impact they have had on…
Congratulations to our second round of Access to Alaska Native Collections grant recipients! Thank you to our amazing funders—The CIRI Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation! With their support, we were able to expand the grant program this cycle and award grants to eleven artists…
We flew to Juneau on Tuesday, January 30 through Friday, February 2, for advocacy training and to meet with the offices of Alaska State Senators and Representatives. Check out our pictures on Facebook. What was the impetus of our fly-in? At some point in my…
