ASM Exhibitions & Events

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

Join us for sketching in the gallery! 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.

We’re planning to meet the first and third Saturday of the month at 1:30 pm, through April (except state holidays). Questions? Call 907-465-2901.

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

Exhibit Opens November 7, 4:30-7:00 pm
With Lecture At 7:00 pm in the APK Lecture Hall

Part of the Alaska State Museum 2024-2026 Solo Artist Exhibition Series 
November 7, 2025 – January 10, 2026

Lou Logan is making a qayaq (kayak) in the tradition of his Iñupiaq ancestors from Wales, Alaska. He is studying a qayaq frame in the museum’s collection and constructing his open-sea qayaq in the gallery. 

Images: Lou Logan. Photo by Molly Briggs. Logan’s iqyax^ (Unangan kayak), 2020. Photo courtesy of Lou Logan.

XX: Twenty Years of Alaskan Art is a new exhibition at the Alaska State Museum featuring the work of contemporary Alaskan artists. The exhibit opens Friday, March 1.

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.

The Alaska Art Fund is managed by Museums Alaska and has donated over $6.7 million dollars to museums statewide for the purchase of art.