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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…
The Museums Alaska Board and Director will be traveling to Juneau from January 30 to February 2 to advocate for several field wide priorities. We will be reaching out to organizations for support letters in the near future. To make it as easy as possible,…
We’re excited to announce that we will be moving from Wild Apricot to Salesforce, which will allow us to streamline our services and communications to members. Wild Apricot has been a wonderful platform for the last several years, but in order to grow, we felt…
